'Rahul Gandhi Is Stabilising India With Caste Census Demand'

'Rahul Gandhi is raising the issue of a caste census though his party has been doing injustice on this front from the 1950s.' IMAGE: Rahul Gandhi addresses the Samvidhan Samman Sammelan in......

Mohammad Yunus: The Nobel laureate Prof who will head new Bangladesh govt

Life has come full circle for Nobel laureate Professor Mohammad Yunus, who faced persecution during Sheikh Hasina's regime for embezzlement, is now all set to head of the interim government in......

Putin's North Korea Gamble

Russia's unprecedented rapprochement with North Korea has raised concerns about the re-emergence of a Russia-China-North Korea alliance which could increase the probability of conflict on the......

Modi In Varanasi: Festive Saffron Fervour

Utkarsh Mishra's impressions of the Narendra Modi roadshow in Varanasi. IMAGE: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narendra Modi undertakes a roadshow in Varanasi, his Lok Sabha constituency, May......

'They are using the pandemic to push their reforms'

'The Modi government is about privatising profits and nationalising losses.' IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at one of her press conferences last week. Photograph: ANI Photo No sooner......

The return of the activist State

The middle class's long push to force the State to retreat from the economy may be reversing, says Ajit Balakrishnan. There is probably a generation of Indians, now in their twenties and early......

'Some of the growth rate figures are spurious and misleading'

'The whole land acquisition bill is a part of the payback to the corporate' 'It is the joke of the century, if the BJP were to pretend that it was a clean government' 'Maharashtra is busy banning......

5 places Modi must visit in China

A visit to the factories of Guangdong would have been a good place to start for Prime Minister Modi. It is the crucible of economic reform, says Rahul Jacob. No prime minister of India has visited......

10 STUNNING Films I Watched In Cannes

With the mad rush of celebrities, paparazzi, official photographers and influencers on red carpets and parties, people almost forget that the Cannes Film Festival is firstly, a celebration of world......

HORROR. ZOMBIES. AVENGING MONKEYS.

Zombies, high society, avenging monkeys, reincarnation, twins, meteor strikes, you'll be spoiled for choice on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma makes her recommendations: TitaneWhere to watch?......

High Court to Censor Board: Do not act like a grandmother

'Today is our independence day. Udta Punjab is not just a film anymore. It is a movement and one that has ended in the victory of democracy.' The Bombay High Court has......

COVID-19: FIFA to release $150 million to associations

IMAGE: FIFA's 211 member associations would receive $500,000 in the coming days as well as any remaining entitlements for 2019 and 2020. Photograph: FIFA/Twitter FIFA will release operational......

How China's Tokyo run-up is stalled by coronavirus outbreak

IMAGE: Acrobats perform on the Olympics rings. Photograph: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters The outbreak of the coronavirus has disrupted China's preparations for the Tokyo Olympics, barring athletes......

It's only football

South Korea scored, twice, and the German team crashed out of the tournament in the first round, for the first time in history.Uttaran Das Gupta discovers a stunned nation on a visit to Germany......

What is Ivanka Trump doing at Winter Olympics?

IMAGE: Ivanka Trump, advisor to and daughter of US President Donald Trump, arrives at Incheon International Airport. All Photographs: Ahn Young-joon - Pool/Getty Images Ivanka Trump arrived in......

What's hot at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics

Anti-NKorea protesters burn flags before opening ceremony IMAGE: Police try to extinguish burnt portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during an anti-North Korea protest before the opening......