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Moroccos forward #19 Youssef En-Nesyri (C) celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal during the Qatar 2022 World Cup quarter-final football match between Morocco and Portugal at the Al-Thumama Stadium in Doha on December 10. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)

Saeed Naqvi | World Cup show spotlights Qatar as a nation apart

When all of the GCC was quaking at Iran's emergence, Qatar maintained very practical trade relation with Iran.

2 Jan 2023 12:23 AM IST

Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi takes part in the Bharat Jodo Yatra march in New Delhi (AFP)

AA Edit | Will Rahul walk the talk and unite Opposition?

The party leadership never showed the kind of unity of purpose Mr Gandhi would want it to demonstrate.

2 Jan 2023 12:21 AM IST

An isolation ward for COVID-19 patients is prepared in view of rising cases of coronavirus in some countries, in Kanpur, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (PTI Photo)(

Chandrakant Lahariya | In 2023, let's try to make India a healthier...

This is India's opportunity to bring health issues to the fore globally.

2 Jan 2023 12:17 AM IST

Congress workers celebrates the partys victory in Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, in Kullu, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. (Photo: PTI)

M. Nageswara Rao | To survive, Cong must work on its anti-Hindu image...

In order to spring a comeback, the Congress needs to institutionalise a framework to systematically work for removal of...

1 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

While masks, hand sanitizers, triple-boosters and wild dancing in streets do help, the need of the hour, however, is sustained, planned avoidance of other human beings. (Representational Image/AA)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How to stay safe in the coming wave

Below is a list of people who need to be avoided not just during pandemic times but even if a meteor were to come...

1 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year celebrations begin in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | Peace or permacrisis': What's the 2023 mantra?

Permacrisis was the Collins Dictionary's word of the year, perhaps unsurprisingly, as we lived through great upheavals

1 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

In this Friday, Oct. 16, 2015 file photo, Brazilian football legend Pele gestures at his fans during the Subroto Cup Under-17 boys final match between AIFF and Manipur at the Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi. Pele passed away due to cancer at the age of 82 in Brazil on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022.

AA Edit | Pele, a perfect jewel

As an ambassador after retiring with three Brazilian World Cup victories and 12 goals in 14 games, he was elegance...

31 Dec 2022 12:51 AM IST

The Bharat Jodo Yatra is not a journey without maps . It has crept up on the existing grammar of politics. (Representational Image/PTI)

AA Edit | As 2023 looms, is there a change in India's mood?

The social situation is in stasis on account of the moves made by the communal right. A time to resolve to get things...

31 Dec 2022 12:39 AM IST

French serial killer Charles Sobhraj (C) sits in an aircraft departing from Kathmandu to France, on December 23, 2022. - French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, was freed on December 23 after spending almost 20 years in a Nepali prison. (Photo: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Revisiting the Serpent' saga: My encounters with...

Sobhraj first got in touch with me in 1997. He rang my office at Channel Four TV, UK, where I was a commissioning editor

31 Dec 2022 12:21 AM IST

Rescue workers clearing rubble of a destroyed school after an attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday, July 4, 2022. The Ukrainian militarys General Staff says that Russian forces are trying to press their offensive deeper into eastern Ukraine after capturing a key stronghold. AP/PTI

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Waiting for the dawn after world faced a...

A revolt against the Kremlin was predicted. Some warned of a military mutiny. President Vladimir Putin was reported to...

31 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

The faceoff, which was reported near Yangtse in the Tawang sector, had lasted for few hours before both sides disengaged. Representational Image. (Twitter)

AA Edit | Fight terror, so J&K develops

The threat of cross-border terror has not abated and the security establishment must not lower its guard even...

30 Dec 2022 1:22 AM IST

Over 50 protesters held white papers in support of the Chinese people under harsh zero-COVID policies that prevent them from having normal lives in China. (Photo: AP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Where does India figure in a very uncertain...

India is better prepared even if the coronavirus knocks again as a new variant.

30 Dec 2022 1:19 AM IST