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The twin problems of high inflation and lower economic growth could create problems for people and ruling parties ahead of crucial Assembly elections. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Amid global headwinds, govt must rally all forces

This is the ninth consecutive time that the retail inflation has come above RBI's tolerance level of six per cent.

14 Oct 2022 12:05 AM

The real problem is Mr Putin may be running out of time as his war machine has been weakening after eight months of engaging with feisty Ukrainians defending their homeland. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Will Putin see reason, stop war in Ukraine?

As Mr Putin hits out from his Kremlin corner, he is fast losing friends

12 Oct 2022 7:55 PM

India had seen, once again, Chinese perfidy in its eastern Ladakh region in April 2020 onwards where serious Chinese transgressions had been engineered across the LAC in Depsang Plains, Hot Springs, Gogra, Pangong Tso and Demchok areas. (Representational Image/AFP)

Kamal Davar | Time to be firm tackling Dragon on LAC standoff & human rights

Both nations, according to these reports, now have between 50,000 to 60,000 troops deployed along the LAC in Ladakh

12 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

Projections put India to cross China in a year and become the world’s most populous country; and between the two, they would then share three billion people. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | 8 billion people in the world: Turning point for humanity?

Currently, our growth is about a billion per decade

10 Oct 2022 12:10 AM

One wonders what, given the recent past and the record since 1947, the next quarter century holds in store for India. (DC Image)

Aakar Patel | Amrit Mahotsav: Do we celebrate past, or what we’ll achieve by 2047?

Have we done enough economically to pass on something meaningful to the next generation?

16 Aug 2022 12:18 AM

A military fighter jet flies above the Taiwan Strait as seen from the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot, the closest point in mainland China to the island of Taiwan. (Photo: AP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Beijing bully runs berserk: Taiwan today, India next?

What began in 1950 subsequently became a familiar pattern, leading to routine and repetitive acts

13 Aug 2022 12:14 AM

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin answers a question during a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing on August 8, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

China to allow students from India to return

We are working intensively for the return of foreign students to China and this process for Indian student's return has begun, said Wang

10 Aug 2022 1:04 AM

Chinese Spy Ship Yuan Wang 5, which was scheduled to berth in the Hambantota port (Photo: Twitter)

AA Edit | Diplomatic win for India

President Ranil Wickremasinghe may have seen the logic behind India’s security concerns when it came to allowing a spy ship close to India

08 Aug 2022 12:28 AM

China trying to prolong Ladakh's standoff to keep boundary issue alive: Army chief

Pande also said in the last couple of years the Army has decided to rebalance and reorient to deal with the situation in eastern Ladakh

10 May 2022 1:23 AM

Chief of Army Staff Gen. M.M. Naravane (Photo: PTI)

China threat has not reduced at LAC: Army Chief

14th round of commanders' talks held to resolve Ladakh standoff

13 Jan 2022 1:26 AM

China also agreed for the first time to crack down on methane leaks, following the lead of the Biden administration’s efforts to curb the potent greenhouse gas. (AP)

China, US pledge to increase cooperation at UN climate talks

The U.S. and China will revive a working group that will meet regularly to address the climate crisis and advance the multilateral process

11 Nov 2021 10:50 AM

The Indian government on Wednesday expressed concern and strongly criticised China’s new Land Boundary Law. (File photo PTI)

India criticises China for new land border law

India noted that, the 'unilateral' move by Beijing 'will have no bearing on the arrangements that both sides have already reached earlier'

27 Oct 2021 11:23 PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. (DC flle photo)

K.C. Singh | Amid China power games, stop divisiveness at home

The diplomatic jostling has increased between India and China after the in-person Quad summit hosted by US President Joe Biden in September

19 Oct 2021 1:25 AM

Former US President George W. Bush had gone a step further. He saw Australia not as a deputy sheriff but as a sheriff. (AFP Photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Quad, AUKUS challenge: How will China respond?

Nearly 20 years ago John Howard, Australian Prime Minister from 1996 to 2007, described his country as America’s deputy sheriff

29 Sep 2021 2:49 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters on September 25, 2021 in New York. (EDUARDO MUNOZ / POOL / AFP)

PM Modi targets Pakistan, China at UN general assembly

Urges world to be alert so that no nation takes advantage of Afghan situation

26 Sep 2021 6:44 AM

AA Edit | UNGA: Words reassuring but actions don’t add up

Warning from Antonio Guterres that the world faces the greatest cascade of crises in our lifetime, was accurate enough to trigger concern

23 Sep 2021 1:19 AM

Chinese over 60, who number 264 million, accounted for 18.7% of the country's total population in 2020, 5.44 percentage points higher than in 2010. (AFP Photo)

China allows couples third child amid demographic crisis

China long touted its one-child policy as a success in preventing 400 million additional births in the world's most populous country

21 Aug 2021 5:38 PM

If the United States reins in its deficit, China has much to lose. (AFP Photo)

Mohan Guruswamy | Global reserve currency is an urgent need for all

In the past few decades, the GWP has grown at a much faster rate

18 Aug 2021 12:49 AM

People stand in a guard tower on the perimeter wall of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 23, 2021. China's largest detention center is twice the size of Vatican City and has room for at least 10,000 inmates. (AP Photo)

Room for 10,000: Inside China’s largest detention center

This site suggests that China still holds and plans to hold vast numbers of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in detention

22 Jul 2021 2:38 PM

The Indian Army deployed over 50,000 soldiers in Ladakh to counter any threat from the Chinese Army. (Representational Photo: AFP)

More forces rushed to Ladakh as China builds infra all across LAC

New PLA camps come up across border in Sikkim, Arunachal

16 Jul 2021 12:46 AM

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