Wednesday, Dec 06, 2023 | Last Update : 08:50 PM IST
covid-19
Chandrakant Lahariya | Flu-like illnesses’ outbreak in China no real cause for concern in India
The flu season has changed in many countries and RSV related infections are more commonly being reported.
01 Dec 2023 12:47 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Amid dog-whistle politics, did Sunak go easy on Suella?
Cruella, in an attempt to drown the noisy negative publicity, has resorted to dog-whistle politics
27 May 2023 12:24 AM
AA Edit | Masks advisable as Covid could disrupt lives again
The Union government must revisit the Covid protocols and prod state governments to decide what is to be introduced now
05 Apr 2023 12:15 AM
Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Dreams left undisturbed in Budget amid economic lull
The 2023-24 Union Budget of Ms Sitharaman can at best be described as a Budget of idle curiosities, lacking any sense of urgency
03 Feb 2023 12:00 AM
Suman Bhattacharjea | Big changes in early years; funding education is key
The impetus for integrating pre-school and school education took another giant step forward with the release of the NEP in 2020
19 Jan 2023 12:00 AM
Manish Tewari | Peace or ‘permacrisis’: What’s the 2023 mantra?
“Permacrisis” was the Collins Dictionary's word of the year, perhaps unsurprisingly, as we lived through great upheavals
01 Jan 2023 12:00 AM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Waiting for the dawn after world faced a difficult year
A revolt against the Kremlin was predicted. Some warned of a military mutiny. President Vladimir Putin was reported to be dead or dying
31 Dec 2022 12:00 AM
AA Edit | Airport chaos: A mess of India’s own making
The ministry’s lazy solution seemed to be to tell the airlines to reduce the number of early morning flights
15 Dec 2022 12:10 AM
Shailaja Khanna | The many moods & myths of Diwali
Whatever be the reason of, the way to celebrate it is to reunite with one’s dear ones and make it an excuse of visiting friends, family
30 Oct 2022 12:10 AM
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
Aakar Patel | The rise & fall of India’s exports: Can we take it up to $1tr by 2030?
Unless India does something proactively that affects our exports positively, trade growth will decline as it has with the world trend
11 Oct 2022 12:05 AM
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 value
08 Oct 2022 12:05 AM
Chandrakant Lahariya | Some heart attacks can be prevented with a few steps
As we grow old, with every passing year in life, the accumulation of fat in the arteries of the heart reduces the blood circulation to heart
29 Sep 2022 12:00 AM
AA Edit | Hindsight disfavours lockdowns
Science may have delayed reopening to 2022 when it could have been done a year earlier without causing such economic and social disruption
27 Aug 2022 12:05 AM
AA Edit | A good move, as Covid cases up
The government must seriously reconsider introducing nationwide precautionary steps, including making masks mandatory, before it is too late
14 Jul 2022 11:12 PM
AA Edit | Covid: Time is not right to lower guard
As per the WHO, new infections are up 8% globally compared to the previous week, with 11 million new cases and over 43,000 new deaths
18 Mar 2022 11:42 PM
Over 1.9 million kids in India lost parent or caregiver to COVID-19: Lancet study
The new study suggests that globally, two out of three children orphaned from are adolescents aged 10 to 17 years
25 Feb 2022 12:48 PM
Sharon Lowen | Friendship in the time of Covid
From the time of our first lockdown, I felt no urge for long phone conversations with friends who were coping in familiar ways
06 Feb 2022 3:01 AM
S Korea tests new virus steps as infections reach new high
Officials also planning to treat most mild cases at home and reshape a testing regime that had been centered around PCR tests
26 Jan 2022 11:48 AM
Dulqueer Salmaan tests positive for coronavirus
The 35-year-old actor's diagnosis comes days after his superstar father Mammooty also tested positive for COVID-19
21 Jan 2022 1:49 AM
Columns
The reasons behind the BJP’s victory in this round -- Modi factor, Hindutva, welfarism and party machinery -- may not work across states
In politics as in cricket, the better side wins. It is credit that must necessarily be shared between the leader/captain and members.
The media space was saturated with rocket attacks on Kabul, boosting Islamophobia sky-high.
The hard reality is that the Modi factor was absent in all the four states.