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The coronavirus is a family of viruses that can cause a range of illnesses in humans including common cold and more severe forms like SARS and MERS, which are life threatening.

Shashi Warrier | Viruses & nukes: Will we wake up in time or stew?

A green humanoid figure about two feet high stepped on to the ladder and descended to the ground

2 April 2023 12:10 AM IST

Security personnel stand guard following crack down on Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh and his supporters, in Jalandhar, Sunday March 19, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Pavan Varma | Liberty key element in alchemy of democracy

History carries important lessons that we can forget only at our own peril

2 April 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the Khel Mahakumbh being held in Jaipur, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. (PTI)

AA Edit | It's up to Indians to protect our democracy, not outsiders

Leaders of democratic nations, including India, have repeatedly averred that democracy is a shared value.

1 April 2023 12:17 AM IST

Former US President Donald Trump speaks to the media while departing a polling station after voting in the US midterm elections at Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 8, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Trump makes dubious history

Mr Trump may have been charged on many counts but they will be known only after his arraignment takes place on Tuesday...

1 April 2023 12:14 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)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Global shift? China is on a geopolitical overdrive

What is for India in all this renewed Chinese geopolitical vigour.

1 April 2023 12:11 AM IST

Rishi Sunak will take charge as Britains first Indian-origin Prime Minister after an audience with King Charles III on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali)

Farrukh Dhondy | Does African link colour attitudes of Indians in...

s there a way of telling the mind's construction by the candidacy or the policy?

1 April 2023 12:08 AM IST

Rahul Baba baiters want to know more about his weird beard -- a question only Rahul and his barber can respond to. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Give MPs, MLAs a fair chance

There are constitutional and legal provisions to disqualify an elected member.

31 March 2023 12:29 AM IST

JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy (Photo: ANI)

AA Edit | Karnataka polls to show which way wind blowing

That the state had shown a tendency to change regimes every five years for decades may give the Congress hope.

31 March 2023 12:27 AM IST

Gehlot said women will be able to come forward and play constructive role in nation-building only when they are not forced to cover their faces. (Phtoo: File)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Right to health in India: Raj law to be test...

Rajasthan is the first state in the country to introduce a law that makes access to healthcare a legal entitlement.

31 March 2023 12:24 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Ex-babus to probe corruption among serving IAS...

Centre is hoping this will restore public confidence and ensure that corruption and violation of service rules are...

30 March 2023 10:28 AM IST

Senior AIADMK leader R Vaithilingam and State Ministers D Jayakumar and K T Rajendra Balaji said it has been decided that the present arrangement which gave full powers in the party to Palaniswami and Panneerselvam will continue. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | Is AIADMK turning a new leaf?

The succession strife in the prime Opposition party had a deleterious impact on the state's politics

30 March 2023 12:29 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP National President J.P. Nadda and Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, S. Jaishankar and Piyush Goyal during the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting, in New Delhi. (PTI/Vijay Verma)

AA Edit | 'Unity of corrupt'?: PM sets a fresh challenge for Opp.

The Opposition must clearly understand the nature of this see-saw, where all those opposed to the BJP come together

30 March 2023 12:24 AM IST