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Congress party presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor addresses a press conference at the UPCC office in Lucknow, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. (PTI Photo/Nand Kumar)

Embrace change, show courage: Shashi Tharoor in final appeal to...

It does not matter who becomes president but what matters is that does the Cong and its workers have the courage to...

17 Oct 2022 10:39 AM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah. (DC Image)

Amit Shah launches MBBS course in Hindi, says NEP will reverse brain...

Shah also debunked the perception who he said was created by people who promoted English, linking the language to...

16 Oct 2022 11:50 PM IST

Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss looks on before the live television debate for the candidates for leadership of the Conservative party, hosted by Channel 4 in London, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | Can Tories run Britain, or should Liz start a drive by...

Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister, is proving that sometimes it is best to be pragmatic and ditch election promises

16 Oct 2022 11:06 PM IST

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Ease of justice' a worthy goal

There are a lot of factors contributing to the clogging of courts

16 Oct 2022 11:02 PM IST

US President Joe Biden (AP)

AA Edit | Biden remark on Pak nukes sets cat among the pigeons

The jury may be still out on what Mr Biden's assessment of Pakistan signifies

16 Oct 2022 10:59 PM IST

Forcing the use of Hindi in non-Hindi regions by the Central government and Central public sector enterprises, including the nationalised banks, is causing avoidable resentment (Image credit: Facebook)

Sanjaya Baru | The politics of language: India's unity in diversity

If Hindi enthusiasts are hurting the cause of their language, so are other such language enthusiasts in other parts of...

16 Oct 2022 10:56 PM IST

BJP President J.P. Nadda. (DC)

BJP aims Mission Repeat' in Himachal

The recent entry into the BJP of state Congress working president Harsh Mahajan is considered a definite asset for the...

16 Oct 2022 10:49 PM IST

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia (PTI)

Excise policy scam: CBI summons Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia for...

The federal probe agency has asked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader to appear before it at its headquarters at 11 am on...

16 Oct 2022 1:48 PM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks during her interaction with a group of Indian-overseas scholars and students from various US universities in Washington DC, USA (PTI)

Coal is going to be back again as gas becoming unaffordable: FM...

Russia has sharply curtailed natural gas shipments to Europe in retaliation for sanctions that the West put in place...

16 Oct 2022 12:49 PM IST

Chinas President Xi Jinping speaks during the opening session of the 20th Chinese Communist Partys Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16, 2022. - The effect was achieved through varying the lens focal length. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP)

Full control over Hong Kong achieved: Xi Jinping at Communist party...

Xi said China has also waged a major struggle against Taiwan separatism and is determined and able to oppose territorial...

16 Oct 2022 12:01 PM IST

Fiction will be alive and kicking as long as we and our imaginations are alive. I think its people who are in the book business who need to check their pulses. Representational Image/DC

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Fiction is dead.... Long live fiction

Fiction is in a dismal state, said a well-known literary agent

16 Oct 2022 7:54 AM IST

No Indian after Rabindranath Tagore in 1913 has got the Nobel for Literature. (Photo: Nobel Prize)

Pavan K Varma | Are the criteria to award Nobel wholly objective?

Mother Teresa got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Only next year did we give her the Bharat Ratna

16 Oct 2022 7:52 AM IST