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A water vendor and residents of an area take drinking water from a roadside water source in Kolkata. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Meet summer needs sustainably

The government is anticipating a record peak power demand of 270 gigawatts (GW) this summer, as against previous...

2 March 2025 11:07 PM IST

Sanjaya Baru | Making things isn’t just about making money

Sanjaya Baru | Making things isn’t just about making money

Young Bud has little time for such fatherly admonition. “What I see is a jealous old machinist who can’t stand the fact...

2 March 2025 11:00 PM IST

Kishwar Desai | Can Britain gain at America’s expense? Don’t fly; ride the Eurostar to Paris

Kishwar Desai | Can Britain gain at America’s expense? Don’t fly; ride...

Shakespeare still remains, after five centuries, the favourite playwright for the British artistes in the West End and...

2 March 2025 10:53 PM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan K. Varma | Bihar’s turn to vote next: Jan Suraajj has a fair...

Just this week, PM Narendra Modi launched the BJP’s campaign. The Bihar Cabinet has also been reshuffled

1 March 2025 11:23 PM IST

Mamata Banerjee

Anita Katyal | Kejriwal missing, Atishi holds fort; ‘ghost’ voters on...

After a brief falling out, the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh have...

1 March 2025 11:16 PM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The best literature festival I didn’t go to

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The best literature festival I didn’t go...

I was pleasantly surprised when our moderator, Ms Hiya, mailed the three panellists a series of well-thought-out...

1 March 2025 11:08 PM IST

AA Edit | Hyperloop too costly for India?

AA Edit | Hyperloop too costly for India?

Hyperloop is an advanced transportation system in which a capsule travels through vacuum tubes at supersonic speeds of...

28 Feb 2025 11:12 PM IST

Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla (ANI file image)

AA Edit | Good start in Manipur but gov faces law & order ‘test’

The extension of deadline has been given upon the expiry of the seven-day ultimatum on the basis of “requests from both...

28 Feb 2025 11:09 PM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Bollywood movies, yoga, curry… Can India’s soft power rise like America’s? | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Bollywood movies, yoga, curry… Can India’s...

Then there was the prank we played in college on poor Professor Ketkar, who lectured on chemistry. Most of the hundred...

28 Feb 2025 11:05 PM IST

Dev 360 | Shun prejudice, racism, or India will pay heavy price | Patralekha Chatterjee

Dev 360 | Shun prejudice, racism, or India will pay heavy price |...

According to the most recent All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE, 2021-22) report, a total of 46,878 foreign...

28 Feb 2025 11:03 PM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Trump’s DOGE and hidden costs of ‘reciprocal...

The Chinese economy has levelled off at a share of about 17 per cent of global GDP versus 26 per cent for the US in...

27 Feb 2025 11:38 PM IST

AA Edit | $5m ticket for American Dream

AA Edit | $5m ticket for American Dream

By the end of 2024, there were 58 million dollar-millionaires in the world

27 Feb 2025 11:31 PM IST