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THE GREAT GAME: PM Modi understands that as the weaker nation with fewer cards, he must bide his time

He focused largely on the funny side of Punjabi society and culture, but he didn’t shy away from making a political barb at times.

The community’s presence in the top echelons of civil and defence services is steadily declining

The Act will help athletes unlock their full potential without worrying about selection.

India's new sports law undermines judicial reforms, centralizing power and favoring politicians and administrators. It weakens athlete representation, restores long tenures, and excludes the rich BCCI from accountability. The law risks international censure and hinders India's sporting progress.

The BJP has extolled CPR’s candidacy as an ‘Abdul Kalam moment’, hoping to reprise the all-round (barring the Left) support he garnered from parties.

It is apparent that the AAP govt’s land pooling policy was for land grab. All parties are engaged in such a practice across the country.

Targets are Opposition CMs, whose removal would bar them from campaigning and fracture their parties.

The Union must act not as a jealous sovereign but as a generous trustee of UTs.

Free-roaming animals pose a multi-faceted public health and safety challenge

We are increasingly concerned with capturing and consuming the natural — as it is, before human intervention has muddied it.

The lacklustre performance of the labour-intensive manufacturing sector is a constraint in Punjab’s faster growth.

Trump’s invitation to Putin, to meet on US soil, shaking hands on the red-carpeted tarmac and sharing a limousine, announced to the world that Russia – without having backed down one iota from its maximum demands about Ukraine’s future – was recognized once more as an equal partner. And with that, Putin broke more than three years of diplomatic isolation

The irony is that this ‘normalisation’ of ties with China is not one that is the result of hard bargains or one that showcases any advantages for India

The world’s silence in the face of nuclear blackmail is not neutrality — it is complicity

Are our universities, including the ‘top ranking’ ones, truly celebrating the spirit of academic freedom and critical enquiry?

As loyalty to individuals — mainly the Badals — rather than the SAD became the new norm, many leaders left the party

To become a manufacturing powerhouse, our companies must go down the value chain and produce for the mass market

No breakthrough in Alaska, but the silver lining is that Washington-Moscow ties haven’t broken down

A three pronged approach — dog population management, responsible ownership and timely treatment for dog-bite victims — is essential to tackle the issue of stray dogs and preventable rabies deaths

As trade tensions rise, India faces tough choices between US pressure and strengthening alternative global alliances

Cynical opinions on how degraded our leaders are or how the dignity of institutions has been stripped can’t dim our pride in Independence Day

In Buddhist teaching, disturbing emotions are seen as real enemies

It was prone to human failings — design dogma, manufacturing and maintenance sloth and yes, very good and bad pilots. But it became the sweet ‘first’ love of every fighter pilot

Planted in the late 1800s, Sycamore Gap tree stood at a dramatic dip in the landscape along the Roman-era Hadrian’s Wall, and was one of England’s most photographed trees