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AA Edit | Time to clean up pharma

The $40 billion Indian pharmaceuticals industry is the world's third largest by volume and 14th largest in terms of...

8 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat with mountaineer Santosh Yadav and others during a Vijayadashami function, in Nagpur, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | RSS outreach to women, Muslims is meaningful

Setting an unambiguous agenda of rapid empowerment of women, Mr Bhagwat publicly laid bare how Indian male hypocrisy...

8 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

Mahsa Amini, who was detained after Irans so-called morality police found fault with her headscarf. (Photo: Twitter)

Iran says Mahsa Amini died of illness rather than 'blows'

Iran's Forensic Organization said "Mahsa Amini's death was not caused by blows to the head and vital organs and limbs of...

7 Oct 2022 5:13 PM IST

This undated photo provided by Merced County Sheriffs Office shows Jasleen Kaur, left, and Jasdeep Singh, with their 8-month-old daughter Aroohi Dheri. (Photo: AP/PTI)

'We're all shattered': Loved ones, community hold vigil for slain Sikh...

The city of Merced has organised a candlelight vigil for the family every night at 7 pm from October 6 to October 9

7 Oct 2022 4:21 PM IST

A national library employee shows a gold Nobel Prize medal in Bogota, Colombia. The Nobels, with new winners announced starting Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, often concentrate on unheralded, methodical, basic science. (AP File)

Human rights champions in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine win Nobel Peace...

The award will be presented at a formal ceremony in Oslo on Dec 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of the prizes'...

7 Oct 2022 3:47 PM IST

TRS President and Telangana CM K Chandrashekar with VCK party founder Thol. Thirumavalavan and JDS leader H. D. Kumaraswamy during changing of the name of the party from Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | BRS is a start, with big potential

KCR, no stranger to taking risks and deploying disruptions to make quick, big gains, believes he must take the nation's...

7 Oct 2022 12:15 AM IST

Baramulla: Union Home Minister Amit Shah meets people during a public rally, at the Showkat Ali Stadium in Baramulla district of north Kashmir, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Elections the real issue in J&K, Centre can't avoid it

Amit Shah sought to dismiss Gupkar Alliance, made up of all political parties in the state barring the BJP, saying they...

7 Oct 2022 12:10 AM IST

This frame grab from video footage by Thai PBS made available via AFPTV and taken on October 6, 2022 shows medical staff carrying a stretcher out of an ambulance in the northern Thai province of Nong Bua Lam Phu, where a former policeman shot dead at least 30 people in a nursery. - A former police officer stormed a nursery in Thailand on October 6, shooting dead at least 30 people, most of them children, before killing himself and his family. (Photo: AFP)

Thai PM orders probe into 'horrifying' nursery mass shooting

PM Prayut Chan-O-Cha ordered an urgent probe after a former police officer shot dead more than 30 people

6 Oct 2022 6:11 PM IST

From winners who are famous to those who have been forgotten and western domination in Nobel, a list of the must knows of the Nobel prize (Representational Image)

French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature

Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announced the winner Thursday in Stockholm, Sweden

6 Oct 2022 5:25 PM IST

New Conservative Party leader and Britains Prime Minister-elect Liz Truss delivers a speech at an event to announce the winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest in central London on September 5, 2022. - Truss is the UKs third female prime minister following Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher. The 47-year-old has consistently enjoyed overwhelming support over 42-year-old Sunak in polling of the estimated 200,000 Tory members who were eligible to vote.

AA Edit | Truss' U-turn exposes failures

The Cabinet top brass tried to pass off the proposed cut as a distraction and rounding error .

5 Oct 2022 12:10 AM IST