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Members of the UN Security Council vote to abstain from a resolution proposed by the Russian Federation and therefore preventing its passage during a meeting of the UN Security Council, Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP)

India abstains from voting on Russia-led UNSC resolution

According to these reports, the Russian-tabled draft resolution made no reference to its invasion of Ukraine

25 March 2022 3:56 AM IST

A man carries shopping bags as heavy smoke from a warehouse destroyed by Russian bombardment casts shadows on the road outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Putin's Ukraine war goes beyond just war-fighting

It's not classically conventional and is veering towards combinations: hybrid, conventional and grey zone, all rolled in...

25 March 2022 2:57 AM IST

Children attend a class after schools reopened for nursery to Class VIII standard students, as COVID-induced restrictions ease, at a School in New Delhi, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)

Lakshita Joshi | Enrolment jump in govt schools a chance to boost...

The priority during a crisis like this should be to ensure that children do not drop out of the education system

25 March 2022 2:29 AM IST

Australias Ashleigh Barty speaks during a press conference in Brisbane on March 24, 2022, after she announced her retirement from tennis. (AFP)

AA Edit | Never say never again

Ashleigh Barty, the World women's No. 1 player, has announced, for the 2nd time, that she is hanging up her racquet

25 March 2022 1:38 AM IST

A health worker conducts a swab test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a residential compound in Shanghai on March 18, 2022. (Photo : AFP)

AA Edit | India's Covid curbs to go, but caution still advisable

Two years and three waves later, the daily caseload of Covid-19 has gone below 2,000 from a high of four lakhs at the...

25 March 2022 1:02 AM IST

MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi. (ANI Photo)

India slams OIC for resorting to 'falsehoods and misrepresentation'

The reaction by the MEA came a day after the OIC at its foreign ministerial meeting in Pakistan criticised India for its...

25 March 2022 12:37 AM IST

Former Union law minister Ashwani Kumar. (Twitter)

Interview | We need to refashion our politics to address new...

The Congress is being replaced by the TMC and AAP as future leaders in a possible alternative national coalition, says...

24 March 2022 9:25 PM IST

Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala with party leader KC Venugopal at a press conference in Delhi after the CWC meeting. PTI photo

Congress calls meeting on Saturday to discuss organizational elections

The G-23 leaders of the Congress party has been pushing internal reforms including organizational elections in the party

24 March 2022 2:45 PM IST

Forensic experts collect samples from the house of Sona Sheikh where seven people were burnt to death keeping captive in their room, allegedly for avenging the killing of TMC leader Bhadu Sheikh, at Rampurhat in Birbhum district. (PTI)

Birbhum victims badly beaten up before being burnt alive: Autopsy...

At least 20 people have been arrested in connection with the incident, suspected to have been triggered by the killing...

24 March 2022 12:51 PM IST

Supreme Court (PTI)

'Don't sensationalise': SC rules out early hearing on Hijab ban

As Kamat persisted that students will lose one year as they are not allowed to enter schools with Hijab, CJI called for...

24 March 2022 12:30 PM IST

A Ukrainian serviceman guards his position in Kharkiv outskirts, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko)

NATO: 7,000 to 15,000 Russian troops dead in Ukraine

President Volodymr Zelenskyy said nearly two weeks ago that about 1,300 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed

24 March 2022 11:28 AM IST

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, early Thursday, March 24, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelensky calls for worldwide protests against Russia's war

More than ten million Ukrainians have already fled homes and cities under sustained Russian bombardment from land, sea...

24 March 2022 10:44 AM IST