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The Sikh diasporas expression of solidarity with Sikh farmers in India is no different from the Tamil diasporas concern about Tamils in Sri Lanka. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | Diaspora & democracy: Global Indians go local

A Sikh in Canada does not have to be a Khalistani to express concern about the fate of fellow Sikhs in India

22 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee (PTI)

CBI summons Mamata kin in coal scandal

They will be questioned for their suspected role in overseas financial transactions relating to the illegal trade

22 Feb 2021 4:15 AM IST

The rupee pared initial gains to fall 7 paise to 71.82 against the US currency in late morning deals on Thursday on bouts of dollar demand from banks and importers. (Photo: DC)

15 Chinese biggies among portfolio investors

People's Bank Of China is also registered as a category 1 FPI

22 Feb 2021 4:15 AM IST

Tiger spotted in Kumrum Bheem-Asifabad district in Telangana

Maneater tiger A2 from Maharashtra might be in Telangana for love

Big CAT was spotted crossing Pranahita river. It has almost turned a stretch of this river as its private swimming pool

22 Feb 2021 4:15 AM IST

India thwarts provocative movements by China in Eastern Ladakh. (PTI Photo)

India, China push for steady pullback

The joint statement issued said that the two sides positively appraised the smooth completion of disengagement of...

22 Feb 2021 4:15 AM IST

There is a move in Australia from the unions calling for any revenue shared by the Internet giants to go into newsrooms rather than board rooms. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Big Tech must pay

Australia has joined France in pushing Internet giants like Google and Facebook to share their advertisement revenue...

22 Feb 2021 4:03 AM IST

Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu attends a function on International Mother Language Day, in Hyderabad, Sunday, February 21, 2021. (PTI)

Naidu bats for use of mother tongue as medium of instruction at...

He also wanted gradual increase in the use of indigenous languages in higher and technical education

21 Feb 2021 7:35 PM IST

Staff of Government ENT Hospital gets administered with COVID Vaccine during the vaccination drive at the Hospital premises in Visakhapatnam. (AA Image/P Narasimha Murthy)

Need to increase pace of vaccinations: Health Ministry tells states

While some states are carrying out vaccination twice a week some others are carrying out four or more than four times a...

21 Feb 2021 7:20 PM IST

A health worker collects swab samples of passengers for COVID-19 test at Dadar Railway platform, in Mumbai. (PTI)

New curbs announced in Pune amid rise in COVID-19 cases

Schools, colleges and private coaching classes will remain closed till February 28

21 Feb 2021 3:13 PM IST

Punes Serum Institute of Indias Covid vaccine to be out in the market by October, but only if human trials are successful . (Photo: Serum Institute of India)

Poonawalla urges countries to be patient as Serum directed to...

The vaccines are produced by AstraZeneca-SKBio (Republic of Korea) and the Serum Institute of India

21 Feb 2021 12:33 PM IST

Anita Katyal | BJP for Sourav as Bengal CM; Cong farmer cell has no...

The BJP has apparently put together a copious dossier on Ganguly and his family's business interests in its effort to...

21 Feb 2021 4:52 AM IST

Its not all sapsuckers and sappy stories. There are those harsh realities of the countryside. Of the lack of basic amenities. Health, education, migration for work. Of environmental destruction and the resultant devastation. (Photo: PTI)

Ranjona Banerji | Concrete threat, but there's bignonia, and birdsong

Dehradun has no buzz. It has higgledy-piggledy growth. Almost none of it is organic

21 Feb 2021 4:37 AM IST