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BRS leader K. Chandrashekar Rao, and Congress leaders Bhupesh Baghel and Ashok Gehlot, who are set to lose their positions as chief ministers of Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan respectively after the results of 2023 elections to the Legislative Assemblies of the states. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Saffron sweep in North, a big shift in Telangana

The Congress was hoping to retain Chhattisgarh, and defeat the BJP in MP, according to most opinion and exit polls, but...

4 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at a high-level event on Green Credits Programme during the COP28, in UAE, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | India can still be part of climate deal

There are reasons why India abstained from joining a formal promise to step up efforts to tap green energy sources more.

4 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Narendra Modi with BJP National President J.P. Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah during celebrations after partys victory in elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, at BJP headquarters, in New Delhi, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Local factors led to BJP's Hindi belt poll...

The hard reality is that the Modi factor was absent in all the four states.

4 Dec 2023 12:01 AM IST

Leopard kills five-year-old girl. (Representative Image)

Shashi Warrier | The Leopard on WhatsApp

WhatsApp Panic: How Social Media Frenzy Ignited Leopard Rumors and Local Theories

3 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

Afghanistans Hashmatullah Shahidi. (PTI Image)

Manish Tewari | Why India must gird itself for Pak-Afghan showdown

The fundamental conflict between Afghanistan-Pakistan can be traced back to the late 19th century.

3 Dec 2023 12:02 AM IST

What happens to the Kohinoor once its returned will be a matter of contention. (AA File Image)

Farrukh Dhondy | UK must return all its loot from the Elgin Marbles to...

The Kohinoor was stolen from the young Dilip Singh by the East India Company's Lord Dalhousie.

2 Dec 2023 12:09 AM IST

Maharashtra Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis pays tribute to the martyrs who laid down their lives while fighting terrorists during 26/11 attack, on its 15th anniversary in Mumbai, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (PTI Photo/Kunal Patil)

Shobhaa De | A not so grand goodbye to 2023 and here's to 2024

Any and everything is converted into a self-seeking image building activity.

2 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

In exit polls seen so far in the elections to five states, depending on which data point you choose, the Congress is winning or can form a government in four states. (PTI File Image)

AA Edit | Needless drama over exit polls

Information is not seen as a threat to the integrity of the poll, or an undue influence.

2 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. (Photo by Gabriel DUVAL / AFP)

AA Edit | Love him or hate him, Kissinger shaped history

Kissinger's policies were thought of as instrumental in the genocide carried out in erstwhile East Pakistan

2 Dec 2023 12:03 AM IST

Even before the current surge of respiratory illnesses in China, in much of 2023, there have been many children and adults in India. (AP File Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Chandrakant Lahariya | Flu-like illnesses' outbreak in China no real...

The flu season has changed in many countries and RSV related infections are more commonly being reported.

1 Dec 2023 12:47 AM IST

Nijjar, whom India had declared a wanted terrorist, was gunned down on June 18 in Surrey, a suburb of Vancouver that is home to a major Sikh community. Pic: Twitter

AA Edit | After US files plot' charges, India needs to come clean

India must convince the US that it is a trustworthy ally

1 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

People at the under-construction Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel after the successful evacuation of the 41 trapped workers, in Uttarkashi district, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Indranil Banerjie | The Silkyara lesson: Can we unite to fight crises?

The country today stands divided, fractious, plagued by conflicting ideas and objectives.

1 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST