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Rescue operation underway after a car got stuck in a waterlogged underpass following heavy rain, in Bengaluru, Sunday, May 21, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Patralekha Chatterjee | The Bengaluru drowning should be a wake-up...

The city lacks a functional system to drain out the water when the water level reaches a certain level following heavy...

26 May 2023 12:11 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese before the start of the fourth test cricket match between India and Australia, at Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (PTI File Photo)

AA Edit | India-Australia ties remain on a good wicket, despite...

India and Australia have also pledged to move on towards completing the signing of a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation...

26 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

The new Sansad Bhavan (Parliament building) under Central Vista Project. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Opp. boycott of opening of new Parl is bad optics

It is ironic, historically speaking, because Mahatma Gandhi was absent in the Parliament on the midnight hour of freedom...

25 May 2023 12:36 AM IST

UPSC civil services examination 2022 topper Ishita Kishore celebrates with family members and relatives after the declaration of results, in Greater Noida, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Hurrah for women toppers

The number of toppers as well as women qualifiers is also rising by the year.

25 May 2023 12:20 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Indian community programme, in Sydney. (Photo: PTI)

K.C. Singh | Modi Pacific foray: China, Quad, islands & diaspora

Mr Modi, perhaps mindful of past Opposition criticism of his partisan lectures while abroad, largely focused on...

25 May 2023 12:00 AM IST

File photo of former Telangana chief secretary Somesh Kumar. (Photo:@TelanganaCS)

Dilip Cherian | Ex-chief secy's return as KCR adviser kicks off a...

Having taken voluntary retirement in Feb, the 1989 batch IAS officer from AP has been given a 3-year term in the rank of...

25 May 2023 12:00 AM IST

Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the decisions of the GST Council are only recommendatory in nature and not binding on the Centre and the states. (Photo:PTI)

AA Edit | Centre ordinance on Delhi is an open challenge to SC

It is for the apex court to determine how to view the open challenge posed to its prestige and authority by the Narendra...

24 May 2023 12:10 AM IST

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma clarified that there is no instruction from the Centre to make Hindi learning compulsory. (DC)

AA Edit | Assam: It'll be good if AFSPA goes

While the announcement had a hint of a disclaimer and conditionality, it will have a largely positive bearing on the...

24 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Claude Arpi | What lies behind China's new role as peacemaker'

Beijing's Global Security Initiative (GSI) is another move from Beijing which indicates that China wants to play a...

24 May 2023 12:00 AM IST

Rescue operation underway after a car got stuck in a waterlogged underpass following heavy rain, in Bengaluru, Sunday, May 21, 2023. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | A shocking death in Bengaluru

Banurekha had the world to achieve, now she is just a statistic. Sadly, she will be forgotten and nothing will change.

23 May 2023 12:20 AM IST

U.S. President Joe Biden, from left, Japans Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Australias Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi hold a Quad meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit, in Hiroshima, western Japan, Saturday. (Photo: AP/PTI)

AA Edit | PM plain-speaking to G-7 over China, Ukraine & UN

The Indian Prime Minister brought to G-7 a wider perspective in broaching the issue of some nations including Russia and...

23 May 2023 12:15 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)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Ukraine to get peace only if both sides can...

A permanent European military presence in Ukraine would rubbish Moscow's claim of defending Russia against Nato by...

23 May 2023 12:05 AM IST