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This year, Durga Puja, the biggest festival for Bengalis, was celebrated with more aplomb than ever since Unesco included Durga Puja in Kolkata in its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity last year. (Photo: PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Festivals need to celebrate inclusion, not...

In a fractured and increasingly polarised society, festivals offer a fantastic opportunity to be inclusive in its...

7 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

New Conservative Party leader and Britains Prime Minister-elect Liz Truss delivers a speech at an event to announce the winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest in central London on September 5, 2022. - Truss is the UKs third female prime minister following Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher. The 47-year-old has consistently enjoyed overwhelming support over 42-year-old Sunak in polling of the estimated 200,000 Tory members who were eligible to vote.

AA Edit | Truss' U-turn exposes failures

The Cabinet top brass tried to pass off the proposed cut as a distraction and rounding error .

5 Oct 2022 12:10 AM IST

There are reports of a minimum of 20 to 25 per cent price rise in domestic flights between most major Indian cities till Diwali season. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | As airfares soar, let markets fix prices

Everyone wants transformational infra to be built and development to be rapid, as long as they directly don't have to...

5 Oct 2022 12:10 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his September 30 address, threatened Nato with, among other things, his nuclear arsenal. (Photo: AP)

K.C. Singh | Russia, Iran, China, Brazil: Realpolitik in global churn

During this testy phase of international relations, all nations, big or small or intermediate, are practising...

5 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

File photo of Lt General Anil Chauhan (retd) who has been appointed as the new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). (Photo: PTI)

Syed Ata Hasnain | As a new CDS takes charge, fresh start for the...

The appointment of Lt. Gen. Anil Chauhan as the CDS, with the rank of general, is largely being welcomed

4 Oct 2022 1:00 AM IST

Soccer fans enter the pitch during a clash between supporters at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Panic following police actions left over 100 dead, mostly trampled to death, police said Sunday. (AP Photo/Yudha Prabowo)

AA Edit | Indonesia's day of shame

The moment a few soccer fans get together there is an unleashing of animal spirits with even the sanest seeming to lose...

4 Oct 2022 12:10 AM IST

Indias Arshdeep Singh bowls during the second Twenty20 international cricket match between India and South Africa at the Assam Cricket Association Stadium in Guwahati on October 2, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | Why does Indian cricket deify the batsmen, but look down...

The bowler is a second-class citizen in the commonwealth of cricket. The rules are written and rewritten to undermine...

4 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

Kharge said that India has a total of 366 PSUs employing 9.2 lakh regular employees and 4.98 lakh contractual employees. The Railways employs 12.53 lakh persons and the department of posts 4.18 lakh employees. If all these are sold off, what will be the future of these employees and their families, he asked. DC file photo

AA Edit | Family still pre-eminent as Congress in election mode

Kharge has said Tharoor rejected his suggestion for a consensus candidate

3 Oct 2022 11:58 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the launch of 5G services in India at the 6th India Mobile Congress, at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav)

AA Edit | Here comes the 5G revolution

India has finally entered into a select group of nations by launching the high-speed fifth-generation (5G)...

3 Oct 2022 1:57 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the situation in the oil and gas sector via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 14, 2022. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Nuclear brinkmanship by Putin sparks global alarm

Mr Putin is increasingly short of options on how to end the misadventure except to take a bit of territory and rattle...

3 Oct 2022 1:38 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, leaves from Balmoral Castle in Ballater, Scotland, on September 6, 2022, after meeting with Britains Queen Elizabeth II and being invited to form a Government. (Photo: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Truss-Kwarteng face opprobrium; will rail strike mar...

In the midst of this doom and gloom everyone is hunting for even a faint silver lining in every dark cloud.

3 Oct 2022 1:29 AM IST

Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge (ANI)

Sanjaya Baru | Organisation Man' takes on the Non-Organisation Man'

Mr Kharge as Congress president will play the same role that Manmohan Singh played as Prime Minister, writes Sanjaya...

3 Oct 2022 1:13 AM IST