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A health worker checks swab samples collected for RTPCR test to detect COVID-19 at a government hospital in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

Lowest COVID cases recorded in country since April 2020

The active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate increased to...

29 Nov 2022 11:35 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a public meeting ahead of Gujarat Assembly elections, in Rajkot, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. (PTI Photo)

PM targets Congress, asks it to shun 'divide and rule' policy

Targets Rahul Gandhi over Medha Patkar walking in Bharat Jodo Yatra

29 Nov 2022 7:10 AM IST

US President Joe Biden, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the G20 leaders summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (Image: AP)

AA Edit | India indeed a global force for good

During his Mann ki Baat broadcast, Prime Minister Modi aptly reflected, that the G20 presidency arrives as a big...

29 Nov 2022 12:15 AM IST

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

File photo of BJP workers welcoming PM Narendra Modi as he, along with BJP president Amit Shah, arrives at the party headquarters to celebrate the partys victory in the Lok Sabha elections in New Delhi (Photo: AP)

Aakar Patel | After decisive win in 2019, has govt run out of steam?

The listlessness shows in endless political campaigning conducted without much reference to performance, only to...

29 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

The suspense over Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwas extension or the appointment of a new chief was finally broken with the appointment of Lt. Gen. Asim Munir. (Photo: PTI)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Will Gen. Munir rock the boat, or keep Pak stable?

It can be expected that Gen. Munir will attempt to establish his own coterie of loyalists who may not be in line with...

29 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Poonam and her son Deepak, accused in the murder of the formers husband Anjan Das, following their arrest by police, in New Delhi, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. (PTI Photo/Priyank Rawat)

Second 'fridge murder': Man chopped in 10 pieces; woman, son arrested

The body parts were thrown in different areas of Pandav Nagar and East Delhi, officials added

28 Nov 2022 1:36 PM 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

Assam Police personnel stop Meghalaya-bound vehicles for safety reasons, a day after violence at a disputed Assam-Meghalaya border location that killed six people, in Jorabat. (PTI)

Assam withdraws travel curbs, but border still tense

Series of protests in Shillong

28 Nov 2022 8:43 AM IST

Visitors stop to take a photograph with a giant Christmas tree outside Battersea Power Station in south London on November 27, 2022. (Photo by Justin TALLIS / AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Christmas lights across London as UK heads for winter...

It is all balle-balle for one community, purely because Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has taken over

28 Nov 2022 1:53 AM IST

Sanjaya Baru | Global South can make G-20 much less of a G-2

India must set out an agenda of interest to the developing countries

28 Nov 2022 1:47 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