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A health worker takes a swab sample of a passenger entering the city at a railway station in Ahmedabad, Friday, July 23, 2021. (AP/Ajit Solanki)

India records 39,361 new COVID-19 cases, 416 deaths

For 34 consecutive days till yesterday, the daily positivity rate in the country was less than 3 per cent

26 July 2021 11:29 AM IST

Commuters in a train after the Delhi Metro resumed services. (Photo: PTI)

Delhi Metro start running with full seating capacity; standing in...

The DMRC, till Sunday, was running trains with 50 per cent seating capacity since June 7

26 July 2021 11:28 AM IST

In this handout photo taken on July 23, 2021, by the Indian Navy shows areas inundated with flood water after heavy monsoon rains in Raigad district of Maharashtra (Indian Navy/ AFP)

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena asks Bollywood stars to help flood-affected...

In 2019 too, the MNS had blasted the Bollywood starts for turning their back' to the plight of flood victims in the...

26 July 2021 9:16 AM IST

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the State Department in Washington, May 28, 2021. (AP/PTI)

Rights, democracy crucial for India

Jaishankar to tell US secretary of Indian values

26 July 2021 9:13 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the interaction with Chief Ministers of North Eastern states on Covid-19 situation via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. (PTI Photo)

PM Modi appeals for 'Bharat Jodo Andolan' on Quit India lines

Noting that the nation will mark Kargil Vijay Diwas on July 26, Modi asked people to pay tribute to those who made our...

26 July 2021 9:09 AM IST

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has lashed out at former cricket Sourav Ganguly, the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). (PTI)

Pegasus: Cong reaches out to Didi ahead of her Delhi visit

The Congress sent the message of solidarity to the Trinamul Congress supremo a day before she flies to New Delhi on a...

26 July 2021 9:06 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI Photo)

PM Modi appeals for 'Bharat Jodo Andolan' on Quit India lines

Noting that the nation will mark Kargil Vijay Diwas on July 26, Modi asked people to pay tribute to those who made our...

26 July 2021 9:03 AM IST

Japan placed its bid for the 2020 Olympics (now being held in 2021 thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic) five years after China made its dramatic entry onto the world sporting stage playing host to the Beijing Olympics.

Sanjaya Baru | Games nations play: Sport, geopolitics & the Olympics

Hosting them and securing medals has also been about national pride and geopolitics

26 July 2021 3:56 AM IST

Clearly, the various bans and other edicts by the Indian government to keep out Chinese-made products in the aftermath of the Galwan attack in June 2020 had no practical effect in the marketplace. Representational Image.

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | India needs to tackle China the way that it...

Blind or not, Indians appear supinely negligent to the Chinese threat

26 July 2021 2:56 AM IST

A Pakistan-dependent dispensation in Kabul, especially one that has strong Chinese backing, a prospect made feasible on account of the US departure from Afghanistan on account of war-weariness, will also seek to deny India a physical link to Central Asia. (Twitter)

AA Edit | It's time for straight talk with US on Afghanistan

Even if India does not have a direct border with Afghanistan after Partition, that country lies just beyond our borders

26 July 2021 2:37 AM IST

Curiously, mankind itself is feeling hapless as climate change seems to be taking its toll. Representational Image (Twitter)

AA Edit | Climate change hits home

The precariously fragile ecosystems of the Western Ghats have also been potentially disrupted by construction activity

26 July 2021 2:08 AM IST

So far ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Federal Bank and CSB that have announced their Q1 earnings have seen a spike in retail slippages, particularly from gold loans. (Representational Photo:PTI)

Slippages from gold loans rise for private banks in Q1

There has been a sharp spike in retail slippages, especially from gold loans and the farm segment, as the Covid second...

26 July 2021 12:58 AM IST