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According to the scientific report, habitat loss is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity and its happening worldwide. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Biodiversity pact: A good start

Recognition of rights to live undisturbed is a highlight of the series of agreements to protect a third of the planet...

21 Dec 2022 12:15 AM IST

The reports of the party going into a major huddle to assess its prospects in as many as 160 constituencies across the country just fit into the pattern of the partys electoral preparedness. (Representational Image/PTI)

AA Edit | BJP gets poll machine in top gear for 2024

While the ruling party takes power and the means to capture it very seriously, the Opposition parties share none of that...

21 Dec 2022 12:10 AM IST

This file photo taken on October 14, 2018 shows soldiers from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force taking part in a military review at the Ground Self-Defence Forces Asaka training ground in Asaka, Saitama prefecture. - Japan announced on December 16, 2022 its biggest defence overhaul in decades, hiking spending, reshaping its military command and acquiring new missiles to tackle the threat from China. (Photo: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will Japan's rearmament impact India's...

Japan's decision to strengthen its military will have definite implications for the Quad -- comprising the US, Japan,...

21 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Former Mumbai municipal commissioner Praveen Pardeshi. (Photo: ANI)

Dilip Cherian | Sidelined after pandemic, former Mumbai babu will now...

Sources say that it seems that the retired babu's rehabilitation is well underway

21 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Taj Mahal (ANI)

Taj Mahal gets Rs 1 crore water bill, Rs 1.40 lakh property tax

According to officials of the ASI, a notice for water tax and one for property tax has been issued

20 Dec 2022 1:11 PM IST

Congress MP Mallikarjun Kharge speaks in the Rajya Sabha during the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. (PTI Photo)

BJP, Opposition slug it out in Parliament over Kharge's jibe

Congress leader had said 'BJP talks like a lion, acts like a mouse'

20 Dec 2022 1:08 PM IST

Workers produce antigen test kits for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a factory in Nantong, in Chinas eastern Jiangsu province on December 19, 2022. (Photo by AFP)

Over 60% of China's population may get COVID, deaths likely in...

Epidemiologist says more than 60 per cent of China and 10 per cent of Earth's population are likely to be infected over...

20 Dec 2022 10:37 AM IST

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar addressing the conclave organised by the India Today Group. (Twitter)

Jaishankar, in a swipe at Rahul, says 'PM had sent Army to LAC'

The external affairs minister said it was the commitment of the Indian Army to not allow China to change the LAC...

20 Dec 2022 7:13 AM IST

GST has helped interstate movement of goods. Representational Image. (DC File Image)

AA Edit | GST reforms will work for India

A crucial item that was missed included the issue of setting up of appellate tribunals, and any good system must have...

20 Dec 2022 12:15 AM IST

Argentinas Lionel Messi holds the trophy after winning the World Cup final soccer match between Argentina and France at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, Sunday, Dec.18, 2022. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Winners all: Messi, the beautiful game, Qatar

Besides a final for the ages, there was plenty of action of the modern kind in a more open and positive game that many...

20 Dec 2022 12:10 AM IST

Other parties are divisive because of their propensity towards casteism but, and this is the thinking, the BJP is above caste. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | The caste factor and the BJP-RSS' Hindutva politics in...

The fact is that Hindutva wants Indians to worship caste, but it doesn't want them to talk about it

20 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

It is now up to Rahul Gandhi to nurture inner-party democracy by deferring to Mr Kharge as the leader and letting him run the party. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | Dynastic politics in India: Long live our democracy!

Except for the CPI(M) and the BJP, every political party in India has a dynastic line of succession, or more aptly...

20 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST