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A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Covid-19 preventive vaccine to a student in the age group of 12 to 14 years, at a vaccination centre, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Chandrakant Lahariya | At 75, time to focus on a healthier India@100

While health has got a lot of attention in the pandemic period there is a need for health to continue to be a sustained...

16 Aug 2022 12:15 AM IST

AA Edit | Soaring rhetoric, less detail in PMs address

AA Edit | Soaring rhetoric, less detail in PM's address

The PM said that through much of the period when Covid-19 struck, the government gave rations free to 80 crore people

15 Aug 2022 10:09 PM IST

If the success of Dhirubhai Ambani attracted people to primary markets, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (in picture) who passed away on August 14 transformed the peoples approach to stock trading. DC Image

AA Edit | Big Bull' changed Dalal Street image

A few decades back, stock trading fared poorly on the Indian moral compass

15 Aug 2022 10:07 PM IST

Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | It's free speech vs hate

The life of a hermit was forced upon him for at least 10 years after a fatwa was put out in 1989 by late Iranian leader...

15 Aug 2022 9:00 AM IST

Aatmanirbhar Bharat was the centrepiece of Prime Minister Narendra Modis Independence Day address.

AA Edit | We are a successful nation, but still a work in progress

We kept our nation sovereign and free, and borders safe, for three-quarters of a century, despite unprovoked hostility...

15 Aug 2022 8:58 AM IST

Rishi Sunak & Liz Truss

Kishwar Desai | Only William-Kate smelling like roses; The Rishi and...

Rishi Sunak finds himself in an unfamiliar rank of being second, while Liz Truss is slowly moving up

15 Aug 2022 12:14 AM IST

The national flag is seen in the foreground as Rapid Action force (RAF) and Karnataka police personnel patrol on the disputed Idgah Maidan, on the eve of 76th Independence Day, at Chamrajpet area in Bengaluru, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India@75 mood: Uneasy sense of...

Both Atal Behari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh functioned as Prime Ministers and the country moved, and no one felt the...

14 Aug 2022 11:50 PM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Carpenter-backed roles and plumber's...

Honestly, though, film folk, you'll have to come up with new things to say in your coming interviews

14 Aug 2022 12:15 AM IST

On the midnight of 15 August 1947, India came into existence. (Photo: AFP/AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Why freedom came early: In August 1947, not June 1948

Instead of August 15, 1947, our Independence Day could well have been June 30, 1948

14 Aug 2022 12:12 AM IST

File photo of the Partition of 1947. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | 75 years later, it's time to bury Partition legacy

Would un-partitioned India have survived the centrifugal tendencies that a constitutionally weak Centre would have...

14 Aug 2022 12:10 AM IST

Jammu: Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi during the wreath laying ceremony of four army soldiers killed in a militant attack in J&Ks Rajouri on Thursday morning, in Jammu district. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Ending 370 & terror in J&K: Delhi, UT govt must explain

The recent attack raises questions about the strategy of the Central government regarding the UT after the abrogation of...

13 Aug 2022 12:20 AM IST

Freebies become the fig leaf that corrupt politicians and political parties use to cover their sins of omission and commission while seeking electoral support. (Representational Image/ AP)

AA Edit | Freebies: It's not courts' call

The leading question the judiciary may have entertained is whether any political party would agree to curbs on freebies...

13 Aug 2022 12:16 AM IST