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Coronavirus has already had its toll on the Indian indices and the recent RBIs crackdown on Yes Bank has done further damage to the Indian stock market, say experts. PTI photo

AA Edit | US bank collapse: Are we any wiser after 2008?

The primary reason for the SVB collapse was because interest rates have been increasing for a year now

13 March 2023 12:23 AM IST

Chinas President Xi Jinping speaks during the opening session of the 20th Chinese Communist Partys Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16, 2022. - The effect was achieved through varying the lens focal length. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP)

KC Singh | Iran-Saudi-China accord a wake-up call for India?

China gains considerably from the deal by projecting its growing role as an economic and political power

13 March 2023 12:18 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | Games universities play with students

Students have attend 80 percent of the classes to be eligible to write the end-semester exams

12 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

File photo of the spot after militants attacked a CRPF convoy in Goripora area of Awantipora town in Pulwama district of J&K. At least 49 CRPF jawans were killed in the attack. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Were India, Pak close to a nuke war after Pulwama?

It is fairly clear that there are no off-ramps when the Indo-Pakistan rivalry goes on an accelerated escalatory spiral

12 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

One of the central challenges in modern neuroscience is recording the exchange of information between different regions of the brain. (Photo: ANI)

Farrukh Dhondy | Mixing up myths & modern science will only lead to...

Government-enforced confounding of science and myth has caused seven professors of New Zealand's universities to write...

11 March 2023 12:56 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 | On a good wicket, India-Australia ties amalgamate

The ties moved on with several Memoranda of Agreements being signed, ranging from sport, culture and innovation to...

11 March 2023 12:43 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses BJP workers during celebrations after the partys performance in Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya Assembly polls, at the BJP HQ in New Delhi, Thursday, March 2, 2023. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)

AA Edit | Stop ignoring Opp. concerns

The PM's office has remained silent and let the party speak

11 March 2023 12:38 AM IST

Shobhaa De | The first Samba-Tango in South America

Shobhaa De | The first Samba-Tango in South America

Indians have far more in common with Latin America than the United States -- the neo-colonisers of the twenty-first...

11 March 2023 12:16 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)

AA Edit | How real is the China threat?

An issue that may be of greater concern is the Chinese President's call for better use of its resources like tech to...

10 March 2023 12:10 AM IST

The party recently created a special initiative to focus on nearly 160 Lok Sabha constituencies, in which in previous elections it has seldom won, or lost by a close margin. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | BJP gets cracking on 2024 strategy as Opp. flounders

By most accounts, the saffron party already has an inertial and incumbent's edge for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections

10 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

Ironically, while Pakistans best friends could well walk off without a scratch if things go sideways, the one country that is unlikely to remain unscathed is India. (Representational Image)

Indranil Banerjie | If Pakistan implodes, India has to deal with the...

India needs to respond, but how it does so will depend on the nature of the crisis currently engulfing Pakistan

10 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

File photo of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressing the closing ceremony of Bharat Jodo Yatra, at Sher-i-Kashmir cricket stadium in Srinagar. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Mr Gandhi: Indians will preserve democracy

Mr Gandhi has been voicing his concern about the brutal attack on the structures of Indian democracy

9 March 2023 12:59 AM IST