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Once India accepts to play host to major sporting events it must also follow freer visa policies and travel, allowing spectators to come in freely from abroad. (PTI File Image)

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AA Edit | Confident India ready to pitch for 2036 Olympics

The pell-mell ways of our traffic even on thoroughfares are also to be considered a hazard.

16 Oct 2023 12:37 AM IST

Cheriyapani, a ferry which will run between Nagapattinam (India) and Kankesanthurai (Sri Lanka), during its flagging off ceremony, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar digitally flagged off the ferry service. (PTI Photo)

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AA Edit | Ferry revives link to Lanka

It is making history in that the ferry, reintroduced after four decades, shows that the two communities can move ahead

16 Oct 2023 12:30 AM IST

Even today, the Delhi and Hyderabad airports outshine Frankfurt and JFK. (AP File Image)

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Sanjaya Baru | Don't look Westward: The Sun still rises in the East

It's true that Europe has many rundown airports and many European cities have depressed neighbourhoods.

16 Oct 2023 12:25 AM IST

Rockets are fired toward Israel from the Gaza Strip, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023.. (AP Photo)

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Ranjona Banerji | Another TV war, with no solution in sight

The so-called heroism of Leon Uris' fiction appeared now to be just that

15 Oct 2023 1:53 AM IST

Rajasthan Former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. (PTI Photo)

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Anita Katyal | Raje turns the tables on BJP; candidate list worries...

Not keen to project her as the next CM face in the upcoming assembly polls, BJP has yet to announce her candidature from...

15 Oct 2023 1:37 AM IST

People demonstrate during a pro-Palestine rally. (AFP)

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Pavan K. Varma | Stand with Israel, but fair deal key to lasting peace

India did the right thing to condemn this terrorist attack. We are against terrorism of all kinds anywhere in the world

15 Oct 2023 1:14 AM IST

File photo of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky walking along tranches with border guard officers as he inspects the state border with Russian Federation in Sumy region. (Ukrainian Presidential Press/AFP)

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Indranil Banerjie | Ukraine fast losing friends as no end to war is...

The unexpected war in Israel is an added complications that could distract the Western powers.

14 Oct 2023 12:05 AM IST

Palestinian health officials reported hundreds of deaths from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. (AP/PTI)

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AA Edit | Hamas must be eradicated, but protect Gaza's civilians

The Palestinians are being rendered homeless in their own land.

14 Oct 2023 12:05 AM IST

As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians. (AP/PTI)

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Farrukh Dhondy | As Hamas goes to war with Israel, civilians in Gaza...

Perhaps the civilian citizens of Gaza who are even now being bombed and starved of food and water in Israel's...

13 Oct 2023 11:32 PM IST

An elevated inflation rate is also a cause of concern for the RBI, though it has decided to accord priority to economic growth in the near future. (AA file Photo)

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AA Edit | Inflation falls, RBI still cautious

Higher liquidity in the system has impeded the transmission of policy rates and interest rates continued to remain...

13 Oct 2023 11:28 PM IST

$American economist Claudia Goldin was awarded the Nobel prize in economics. American economist Claudia Goldin, who was awarded the Nobel prize in economics, talks to the press at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 9, 2023. The Nobel prize in economics was on October 9, 2023 awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for her research that has helped understand the role of women in the labour market. The 77-year-old Harvard professor, who is the third woman to be awarded the prestigious economics prize, was given the nod \for having advanced our understanding of womens labour market outcomes,\ the jury said. (Photo by Lauren Owens Lambert / AFP)$ Opinion

Mohan Guruswamy | Big ideas for change': What 2023 Eco Nobel is all...

Economics, possibly because of its associations with politics, money and finance has for long been dominated by men.

13 Oct 2023 12:55 AM IST

The study found that 15.6 million abortions were performed in the country in 2015. (Photo: Pixabay)

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AA Edit | Abortion: Compassion is the key

It is not enough that there is a law and it must be ensured that its advantages reach its intended beneficiaries

13 Oct 2023 12:49 AM IST