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A health worker inoculates a woman with a dose of the Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus, at a vaccination center in Mumbai on May 29, 2021. (Sujit Jaiswal / AFP)

India's active COVID caseload below 20-lakh mark, 1,27,510 new cases...

The death toll due to the virus climbed to 3,31,895 with 2,795 fatalities being recorded in a span of 24 hours

1 Jun 2021 10:56 AM IST

Making a socially just world requires much more than condemning oppressors and crying with the oppressed. (Representational image: Mahmud Hams /Pool Photo via AP, File)

Pervez Hoodbhoy | Why are Arabs powerless? It's not guns; ideas rule...

In a nutshell, imperialist conquests showed that brains would rule over brawn: a stark truth that got still starker with...

1 Jun 2021 7:30 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)

K.C. Singh | To improve India's image, govt needs a reality check

The US will help but may extract greater alignment with its interests in the Indo-Pacific against China, on climate...

1 Jun 2021 7:26 AM IST

Now, the cases heard by the Supreme Court have anywhere between two and 30 parties. Who decides who will be unmuted? (PTI)

Supreme Court for review of sedition law's limit

The Andhra Pradesh government should not take any coercive steps against Telugu news channels TV5 and ABN Andhra Jyoti,...

1 Jun 2021 1:54 AM IST

The report also does well to emphasise that higher trade-to-GDP ratios are a signal of competitiveness and an entry point for coupling the Indian economy with the international economy, including through global value chains.

Coronavirus eats into Indian economy, GDP shrinks 7.3%

The 7.3 per cent contraction is the worst-ever economic performance that India has witnessed in over four decades

1 Jun 2021 1:20 AM IST

If the BJP, now in power at the Centre, could run the vaccination programme as efficiently as it seeks to run elections, we could perhaps see light at the end of this dark tunnel. (Photo: AFP)

Policy makers must have 'ears on ground', SC tells Centre on...

You must smell the coffee and see what is happening across the country, the Supreme Court said

31 May 2021 2:07 PM IST

Twitter express concern over the safety of its employees in India and said it will continue to be strictly guided by principles of transparency and protecting freedom of expression. (Photo:AP)

Twitter has to comply with new IT rules for digital media, says Delhi...

Justice Rekha Palli issued notice to the Centre and social media platform Twitter seeking their stand on a plea

31 May 2021 1:49 PM IST

Supreme Court of India (PTI)

Government to take decision within two days on class 12 board exams:...

The Supreme Court bench has posted the matter for hearing on June 3

31 May 2021 12:19 PM IST

In a five-page letter, Banerjee urged the prime minister to reconsider the Centres decision to recall the chief secretary after giving him a three-month extension. (PTI)

Mamata requests PM to rescind order recalling CS, says will not...

I humbly request you to withdraw, recall, reconsider your decision and rescind the so-called order in larger public...

31 May 2021 12:10 PM IST

Construction work underway as part of the Central Vista Redevelopment Project, at Rajpath in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Central Vista essential project, work to continue: Delhi HC dismisses...

The court said under the contract awarded to the Shapoorji Pallonji Group, work had to be completed by November 2021

31 May 2021 11:18 AM IST

A health worker administers a dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a beneficiary at a drive-through vaccination camp, at Saket in New Delhi, Sunday, May 30, 2021. (PTI /Kamal Singh)

India reports lowest daily COVID-19 cases in 50 days

The daily test positivity rate was recorded at 9.07 per cent, less than 10 per cent for the seventh consecutive day

31 May 2021 10:55 AM IST

These findings highlight the urgent need for countries to implement stronger tobacco control measures (Photo: AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | Tobacco India's top health crisis: Act now, or just...

It is not that the incidence of smoking is low in India if we take into consideration the widespread bidi habit

31 May 2021 7:39 AM IST