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Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Begumpet, Telangana (ANI)

India's history without blinkers

For far too long, Independent India has believed that history must be partisan, sanitised, shackled

27 Dec 2022 11:32 PM IST

Before Gogra, Indian and Chinese troops had disengaged from Galwan Valley and Pangong Tso in Ladakh. Representational image/PTI

AA Edit | China ties can't be normal if border is at boiling point

India can see no logic in China's approach of seeking normality in ties in all other areas while the border is kept at...

27 Dec 2022 11:29 PM IST

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya speaks with a doctor as a medic collects swab sample of a woman, during a nationwide mock drill for COVID-19 preparedness, at Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

Mock drills held across India to test COVID readiness

Clinical readiness at hospitals is crucial, minister said, noting that both government and private hospitals are...

27 Dec 2022 1:21 PM IST

Aviation ground crew wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) working on an aircraft that flew in from abroad at the airport in Yantai in Chinas eastern Shandong province. (Photo by AFP)

China to reopen borders, scrap quarantine for international travellers...

Previously passengers coming from abroad had to mandatorily stay in over two weeks of quarantine in government...

27 Dec 2022 11:49 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during Veer Baal Diwas programme at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, in New Delhi, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (Photo: PTI)

India must break free from narrow views: PM Modi

Modi says any country with such history must be self-confident

27 Dec 2022 8:33 AM IST

An isolation ward for COVID-19 patients is prepared in view of rising cases of coronavirus in some countries, in Kanpur, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (PTI Photo)(

Mock drills across India today on hospitals' COVID readiness

Karnataka makes face mask mandatory for New Year festivities

27 Dec 2022 7:26 AM IST

Nepal Maoist chief Prachanda. (Photo: File)

AA Edit | New PM in Kathmandu to pose challenge for Delhi

In the absence of political stability, development is a casualty in any poor country, and Nepal can be no exception

27 Dec 2022 12:33 AM IST

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor and others during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kerala. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Some march together, some alone

It was Rahul Gandhi on his Bharat Jodo Yatra, which India embraced, despite the heckling of Hindutva supporters

27 Dec 2022 12:31 AM IST

A.S. Dulat (Photo: G.N. Jha)

Aakar Patel | Dulat memoirs an eye-opener on how India's spooks think

What this ex-head of RAW, who was also one of the IB's senior-most officers has written is astonishing

27 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Far from being the competitors of the United States, China and India are still its under-economies, serving it with cheap labour working on repetitive jobs and repetitive number crunching. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | What is the prescription for America's many ills?

The problem with the US is, it lives far beyond its means and its profligacy has left it as a debtor, unable to pay its...

27 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

In India too, an intense fight is on between the Hindu right, partially represented by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Hindu liberals. (Representational image: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India's culture wars: A clash of ignorant...

There is also the basic question whether the Hindu liberals are really liberal, and whether the Hindu reactionaries are...

26 Dec 2022 2:30 PM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman attends the Development Committee Meeting of the World Bank-IMF, in Washington DC, USA. (PTI Photo)

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman admitted to AIIMS

The 63-year-old has been admitted in a private ward of the hospital

26 Dec 2022 1:53 PM IST