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Our knowledge of the Cosmos does tell us that colours of the flowers we love look the way they do because our star emits light mainly in the visible range. (Representational Image/ AFP)

Ranjona Banerji | When the tears comfort rather than the flowers

Dealing with grief is hard enough by itself, but often it is others who find your grief harder to deal with

26 March 2022 11:37 PM IST

Defence Research and Development Organisation successfully conduct maiden flight test of indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile Pralay from Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha. (PTI)

Manish Tewari | Unguided missile: A case for Indo-Pak N-dialogue

The object in all probability a supersonic missile was in Pakistani airspace for three minutes and forty four seconds...

26 March 2022 11:37 PM IST

DC Edit | IPL-15: That's entertainment!

This thrilling ritual of tribal loyalties will keep a nation in thrall for the next 60 days

26 March 2022 1:16 AM IST

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi. (PTI Photo)

Anand K. Sahay | What Congress needs to do for life after Gandhis

Here is a recall from history which might be useful for the Congress to consider

26 March 2022 12:24 AM IST

India has of late witnessed a mushrooming of entrance coaching centres which are as much about drilling in the skills required for responding to questions as they are about deepening the understanding of the subject. (Representational Image/ DC File)

AA Edit | Amid big changes in varsity entry, some concerns too

As per UGC, the test will have a compulsory general paper and 6 subject-specific papers which the students can choose...

26 March 2022 12:18 AM IST

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Bureaucracy in UK, EU & India: Putin's war to BoJo's...

Putin's criminal war has caused the largest refugee crisis Europe has known since the Second World War

26 March 2022 12:15 AM IST

A man carries shopping bags as heavy smoke from a warehouse destroyed by Russian bombardment casts shadows on the road outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Putin's Ukraine war goes beyond just war-fighting

It's not classically conventional and is veering towards combinations: hybrid, conventional and grey zone, all rolled in...

25 March 2022 2:57 AM IST

Children attend a class after schools reopened for nursery to Class VIII standard students, as COVID-induced restrictions ease, at a School in New Delhi, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)

Lakshita Joshi | Enrolment jump in govt schools a chance to boost...

The priority during a crisis like this should be to ensure that children do not drop out of the education system

25 March 2022 2:29 AM IST

Australias Ashleigh Barty speaks during a press conference in Brisbane on March 24, 2022, after she announced her retirement from tennis. (AFP)

AA Edit | Never say never again

Ashleigh Barty, the World women's No. 1 player, has announced, for the 2nd time, that she is hanging up her racquet

25 March 2022 1:38 AM IST

A health worker conducts a swab test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a residential compound in Shanghai on March 18, 2022. (Photo : AFP)

AA Edit | India's Covid curbs to go, but caution still advisable

Two years and three waves later, the daily caseload of Covid-19 has gone below 2,000 from a high of four lakhs at the...

25 March 2022 1:02 AM IST

DC Edit | India's stance over Putin's war gets harder to sustain

As a member of the US-led Quad alliance, India remains the only nation not to condemn the abomination of the Russian war...

24 March 2022 2:38 AM IST

Defence secretary Ajay Kumar. (Twitter)

Dilip Cherian | The wait continues for a new defence production secy

The delay in the appointment did raise eyebrows in babu circles, but the speculation will surely end now

24 March 2022 1:46 AM IST