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File photo of Congress President Rahul Gandhi with senior party leader Sonia Gandhi during Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, at AICC HQ in New Delhi. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Restore democracy to reinvent Congress

An elected leadership is a pre-condition if the party were to regain its legitimacy and popularity

26 Aug 2020 6:01 PM IST

Girish Chandra Murmu was speaking at a meeting convened in Jammu to review the progress of various steps taken for the development of the tourism sector. (Photo: Twitter)

Dilli ka Babu | Audit service is unhappy over G.C. Murmu as CAG

Sources say that in becoming CAG, Murmu who is from the 1985-batch Gujarat cadre of the IAS, has superseded at least six...

26 Aug 2020 5:47 PM IST

There are practical aspects of conducting the exam to consider as well, the reason why an eminent institution like IIT Bombay has cancelled it. Representational Image

Any further delay in JEE, NEET will have serious repercussions, says...

Rao's comments come in the wake of growing clamour for postponing the two crucial exams in the wake of rise in COVID-19...

26 Aug 2020 5:26 PM IST

Dr Matee Chanjaruporn

Unsung Heroes' of Thailand's victory over COVID-19: Lessons for...

An exclusive interview with the doctor who founded Thailand's little-known but all-powerful brigade of Village Health...

26 Aug 2020 5:22 PM IST

BMC medical staff and doctors take blood plasma samples from a cured COVID-19 patient, at Dharavi in Mumbai. (PTI Photo)

Supreme Court dismisses petition seeking payment of salary to doctors,...

Senior Advocate K V Vishwanathan, appearing for the petitioner, raised the issue of ASHA Workers who have not been paid...

26 Aug 2020 5:14 PM IST

Phase II human trial of Oxford vaccine begins in Pune. A scientist works over an experimental coronavirus vaccine in a laboratory. (AFP Photo)

Serum Institute begins phase 2 clinical trial of Oxford COVID vaccine

In all 25 candidates will given the vaccine in the next seven days, according to Dr Lalwani

26 Aug 2020 5:01 PM IST

Supreme Court adjourns Sharjeel Imam's plea seeking clubbing of...

it will hear the matter after two weeks as the counsel appearing for Imam sought time to file some additional documents...

26 Aug 2020 4:21 PM IST

TRAI issues show-cause notice to Vodafone Idea on priority plan. (PTI Photo)

TRAI sends show-cause notice to Vodafone Idea, says priority plan is...

TRAI had been probing priority plan RedX and Platinum offering to see if network preference leads to deterioration of...

26 Aug 2020 4:06 PM IST

For decisions on removing content on violent extremism and content endangering child safety, YouTube tolerated a lower level of accuracy that resulted in a tripling of the number of videos pulled for breaking those rules, it said.

Triple the number of YouTube videos removed for endangering child...

Software relied on this quarter to cast a wider net so that content that could potentially harm the community would be...

26 Aug 2020 4:01 PM IST

Beachgoers enjoy a hot day in the sun at a beach in Bormes-les-Mimosas, southern France. (AP File)

French government defends freedom of topless sunbathing

After cops asked bare-breasted bathers to cover up on a Mediterranean beach, uproar ensued and reached the ears of...

26 Aug 2020 3:50 PM IST

Protestors face off with police outside the County Courthouse during demonstrations against the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (AFP)

Gunfire kills one as Wisconsin protests turn to chaos

Crowds chased a man running down the street with a rifle after they believed he had shot another man

26 Aug 2020 3:34 PM IST

Wang Xining, the Chinese Embassy in Australias deputy head of mission, speaks at the National Press Club about Australias call for an independent inquiry into the origins of and international responses to the pandemic in Canberra. (AP)

China feels betrayed by Australia's push for coronavirus origin...

The envoy quoted the play Julius Caesar in which the dictator realizes that his friend Brutus is among those who are...

26 Aug 2020 2:48 PM IST