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Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Right) with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina. (PTI)

Dev 360 | India must learn from others, shed its hubris

Bangladesh has invested in strengthening its human capital, especially women, and this is paying off also in economic...

19 Oct 2020 10:40 AM IST

Students wearing facemasks as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus wait to submit their national scholarship portal registration forms at a Government Girls School in Amritsar on October 15, 2020. (AFP)

Palash Deb | Evolve the right parameters to judge varsities

Some of the criticism against Indian universities seems misplaced if we consider the complexities of global university...

19 Oct 2020 10:29 AM IST

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks with senior members of parliament a day after her landslide election win, in Auckland on October 18, 2020. (AFP)

AA Edit | A win for liberal-left

However, as far as her progressive agenda is concerned, it is unclear whether Ardern's government has the economic chops...

19 Oct 2020 10:16 AM IST

A man walks balancing a basket on his head at a vegetable market in Lucknow, India. (AP)

AA Edit | India indicted by global hunger index

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2020 published this week has put India behind most of its south Asian neighbours,...

19 Oct 2020 10:07 AM IST

The nearly 20-foot tall wall, a portion of which collapsed, is on the way to the highest point of the fort.

Hyderabad rains: Another wall collapse in Golconda Fort

The incident follows the one on Thursday when a wall of the Quilashapur fort of Sarvai Papanna in Jangaon district came...

18 Oct 2020 2:16 PM IST

Mithun Chakraborty and his son Mahaakshay. (PTI File)

Rape case filed against Mithun Chakraborty's son Mahaakshay

The accused named in the case are Chakraborty's son Mahaakshay and the actor's former wife Yogita Bali

18 Oct 2020 11:10 AM IST

Court tells police to probe Kangana Ranaut's social media posts

Mumbai based Director Sahil Ashrafali Sayyed has lodged a complaint alleging the actor has been defaming Bollywood since...

18 Oct 2020 11:02 AM IST

In popular culture, the male huddle has been among the most paeanized of phenomena. They even have a term for it: bromance, a genre in films even more popular than the dreaded rom-com. (Representational Image: AFP)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | #RealMenDon'tHuddle

Every horror perpetrated on every woman is born out of what we have come to accept as the male huddle, including rape.

18 Oct 2020 9:57 AM IST

Plurals Party President Pushpam Priya Choudhary flashes the victory sign after filing nomination from the Bankipur constituency, ahead of Bihar assembly polls, in Patna, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. (PTI)

Anita Katyal | In patriarchal Bihar, women finally come into their own

Women have clearly come into their own in Bihar's patriarchal society as several politicians have opted to promote their...

18 Oct 2020 9:49 AM IST

BJP supporters celebrate as early trends show the partys win in the last Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly polls, at the party office in Lucknow. (PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Muslims in BJP have an express duty: Stem hate

Do the luminaries in the BJP from the Muslim community speak out against the malicious denigration of their faith

18 Oct 2020 9:38 AM IST

Chirag Paswan (PTI)

Chirag Paswan's LJP is a 'vote katua' party, alleges Bihar BJP

Paswan's statements, especially his praise for Modi, has given rise to speculations that the LJP has a tacit...

17 Oct 2020 2:44 PM IST

From an average growth of 8 per cent during FY17-19, urban consumption declined 0.6 per cent for the first time in two decades in FY20 before collapsing by more than a quarter during April-August 2020. (Representational Image: AFP)

Urban consumption sees worst decline in two decades

While urban consumption contracted 34 per cent, rural consumption shrank only 4 per cent

17 Oct 2020 1:12 PM IST