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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Rajya Sabha, during the Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (RSTV/PTI Photo)

Rajya Sabha adjourned briefly amid Opposition uproar over Insurance...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman moved a bill in the Upper House to consider for further amendment of the Insurance...

18 March 2021 3:52 PM IST

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat. (PTI)

U'khand CM sparks controversy for questioning 'values' of women who...

#RippedJeans trends on Twitter following Rawat's comments on women who wear 'jeans ripped at the knees'

18 March 2021 2:15 PM IST

A medical worker takes a swab sample from a passenger for a Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test at a bus station in New Delhi on March 17, 2021. (Prakash SINGH / AFP)

India adds 35,871 fresh COVID-19 cases, biggest single-day jump in 102...

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,10,63,025, while the case fatality rate stands at...

18 March 2021 11:05 AM IST

Chinas insistence that those who apply for a visa should have inoculated themselves with a Chinese-made vaccine defies logic and scientific principles, and reflects a total ignorance about the objective realities about the pandemic situation in the world. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | China's Catch-22 on vaccine

Vaccination for all must be a universal goal at present, and every nation, including China, should be part of it

18 March 2021 4:46 AM IST

If the women voters of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu vote the way they have voted in the past, it would give an edge to these two parties in the respective states. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Sanjay Kumar | Women voters to play critical role in Bengal & TN...

Women voters are turning out to vote in large numbers both in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections

18 March 2021 4:41 AM IST

Indians who complain loudly and aggressively against the offensive behaviour of white people in the West fall into the same kind of behaviour at home when we deal with blacks and all non-white people whether they are visitors or students. (Representational Photo: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Let's talk about racism Fight it at home,...

Discrimination based on colour is a habit of the mind among people across the length and breadth of Indian society

18 March 2021 4:23 AM IST

The proposed change in law introduced by the Modi government will effectively render the Arvind Kejriwal government superfluous, practically reducing the present Delhi Assembly which was brought into existence in 1993 under the NCT Act- to a nullity. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Why does Centre want a 'viceroy' to run Delhi?

Modi govt plans to constitutionally aggrandise the office of the lieutenant governor of Delhi at the expense of the...

18 March 2021 4:20 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses webinar on effective implementation of Budget provisions in Health sector, in New Delhi, Tuesday, February 23, 2021. (PTI)

Second peak of COVID-19: Prime Minister Modi puts states on alert

Modi said though more than 96 per cent of cases in India had recovered, the high test positivity rate in Maharashtra and...

18 March 2021 12:59 AM IST

Authorities investigate a fatal shooting at a massage parlor in Acworth, Georgia. Officials say 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, of Woodstock, Georgia, has been captured hours after multiple people were killed in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. (AP)

Georgia massage parlor shootings leave 8 dead

Four of the victims who died were women of Korean descent, as a 21-year-old man suspected in the shootings was taken...

17 March 2021 2:53 PM IST

Born at Jalpehar village in Mandi district on June 10, 1958, Sharma was a two-time MP. (Image credit: Twitter/@bjpramswaroop)

BJP MP Ram Swaroop Sharma found dead at Delhi residence

Prima facie, it appears to be a case of suicide, the police said, adding that no suicide note was found from the spot

17 March 2021 11:47 AM IST

Biden also shrugged off claims that his dismantling of former president Donald Trumps tough stance had encouraged the surge, pointing out that there had been similar surges in 2019 and 2020. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Biden tells migrants 'don't come' as criticism grows

Republican critics say Biden's policies caused a sharp increase in migrants seeking to cross into the US illegally

17 March 2021 11:23 AM IST

People hold up signs during a vigil to reflect on the murder of 33 year old marketing executive, Sarah Everard, in London, Monday, March 15, 2021. The British government is under pressure to do more to protect women and ensure the right to protest as Parliament prepares to debate a sweeping crime bill amid anger over the way police broke up a vigil for a young murder victim abducted on the streets of London. (AP/Matt Dunham)

AA Edit | Soul-search for Sarah

In India, or in countries outside Western Europe and North America, such happenings will be criticised but will not be...

17 March 2021 9:00 AM IST