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Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, speaks during fifth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee in Beijing on Oct 29, 2020.(AP)

AA Edit | Will protests compel Xi to dilute Covid Zero' policy?

Covid Zero has brought China to this point of public protest. Where does it go from here?

29 Nov 2022 12:10 AM IST

A health worker takes a swab sample from a resident to be tested for Covid-19 coronavirus in Jiayuguan, in Chinas northwestern Gansu province on November 24, 2022. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT

China COVID cases hit fresh record high after weekend of protests

China has stuck with Xi's zero-COVID policy even as much of the world has lifted most restrictions

28 Nov 2022 10:20 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman holds a folder-case containing the Union Budget 2022-23 as she poses for a photograph with the Finance Ministry officials, outside the North Block, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan)

AA Edit | Make middle class growth engine in coming Budget

The middle classes are not seen as too crucial and are all but forgotten

28 Nov 2022 1:44 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba at the sacred Maya Devi Temple, Lumbini. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Political uncertainty ends in Nepal

The Nepali poll results are a mixed bag for India, which has kept off the internal affairs of its closest neighbour

28 Nov 2022 1:40 AM IST

This photo shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter posing with soldiers who were involved in the the recent launch of what it says a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile, at an unidentified location in North Korea. (Korea News Service via AP)

Kim vows North Korea to have world's most powerful nuclear force

Kim exhorted the scientists and workers to 'expand and bolster up the nuclear war deterrent of the country at an...

27 Nov 2022 1:25 PM IST

Protesters are taken away by police in a bus in Shanghai on Saturday. Protests against Chinas restrictive COVID measures appeared in a number of cities Saturday night, in displays of public defiance fanned by anger over a deadly fire in the western Xinjiang region. (AP Photo)

Protests over China's COVID controls spread across country

President Xi Jinping's government faces mounting anger at its 'zero-COVID' policy that has shut down access to areas...

27 Nov 2022 11:33 AM IST

The latest video that has emerged in a series of purported CCTV footage of Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain inside the Tihar jail, shows house-keeping services being provided to the jail cell of Aam Aadmi Party leader. (Twitter/ANINews)

Latest video shows house-keeping service being provided in Satyendar...

The purported footage that emerged according to the sources on Sunday morning was dated September 13, 15 and October 1

27 Nov 2022 10:33 AM IST

Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari has asserted that the Citizenship Amendment Act will be implemented in the state (Twitter/@SuvenduWB)

CAA will be implemented in West Bengal, says BJP's Suvendu Adhikari

Adhikari said the CAA does not suggest that citizenship of anyone will be taken away if one is a bonafide resident with...

27 Nov 2022 10:21 AM IST

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, BJP National President J.P. Nadda and State party chief C.R. Patil during release of the party manifesto for Gujarat Assembly elections, in Gandhinagar. (PTI Photo)

Gujarat polls: BJP manifesto promises implementation of Uniform Civil...

The party assured that the amount of medical insurance coverage under the Ayushman Bharat scheme would be doubled

26 Nov 2022 1:46 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice D.Y Chandrachud and Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju during the Constitution Day celebrations in the Supreme Court, in New Delhi (PTI Photo)

'For timely justice, our judiciary is taking a lot of steps': PM Modi

During the Constitution Day celebrations programme in the Supreme Court, the PM launched various new initiatives under...

26 Nov 2022 12:52 PM IST

File photo of the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks outside Taj. (Photo: PTI)

Planners of 26/11 Mumbai attacks must be brought to justice:...

In 2008, 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists (LeT) carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks killing at least...

26 Nov 2022 10:45 AM IST

Mr Gehlots claims that Sachin Pilot tried to undermine his government at the behest of the BJP and that money changed hands in the process are of a very serious nature. (DC Image)

AA Edit | Kharge must halt Rajasthan drift

The latest allegations, coming from none other than CM Ashok Gehlot, raise legal, moral and ethical issues that need to...

26 Nov 2022 12:15 AM IST