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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

In the process of economic growth, this country cant afford to ride roughshod over ecological balance. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Managing future shocks: Way to self-reliant...

No one really knows what the world will look like in a year or two but at this moment it seems very likely that the war...

24 March 2022 12:32 AM IST

Raj Sachdev (Thai name: Sutham Sachaphimukh). (By Arrangement)

Lekha Shankar | My memories of him will never fade: Bose's boy scout

Raj Sachdev, one of the last survivors of Netaji's Balak Sena, reminisces his role in India's Independence

23 March 2022 1:25 AM IST

It seems to me that the reader and the audience should feel a deep sense of gratitude for every individual mediaperson who is going against the grain at the cost of unspeakable abuse online, on social media and even on their own online platforms. (Representational Image/ Pexels)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Media outlets, others must do more to curtail...

While the newsperson is going through her set of emotional distress, the public at large has its own issues to deal with

23 March 2022 1:10 AM IST

Congress President Sonia Gandhi and party leader Rahul Gandhi during the partys Mehangai Hatao Rally against the Central government, in Jaipur, Sunday, Dec 12, 2021. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Either the Congress will survive, or the Gandhis

The existence of the Congress is at stake: the party with the same name as the one that belongs to the nation

23 March 2022 12:25 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Pegasus spying probe: Can the panel hold Modi govt to account?

Aakar Patel | Pegasus spying probe: Can the panel hold Modi govt to...

The citizens included journalists, key Opposition figures and a sexual harassment survivor

22 March 2022 1:08 AM IST

People crowd a market after further ease in COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, in Patna. (Representational Photo:PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Small states are a must for better governance

Uttar Pradesh is larger in terms of population than Brazil, Japan or Bangladesh

22 March 2022 12:45 AM IST

So far, only 1,739 people have been accommodated in the government service; while work on more than half the transit accommodation units has not even started. (Representational Image/ PTI)

AA Edit | What government owes Kashmir migrants

The Rs 920-crore transit accommodation project was meant for members of the community which was forced to leave their...

21 March 2022 1:50 AM IST

Oil prices fell in early trade on Tuesday after weak Japanese industrial production data was enough to jangle trader nerves over a bumpy recovery in fuel demand as coronavirus pandemic restrictions ease. (AFP Photo)

AA Edit | India must feel free to buy Russian oil

It appears all is fair when it comes to exploring energy sources in the face of spiralling oil costs

21 March 2022 1:30 AM IST

A Venue from Jaipur Literary Festival. (Twitter)

Farrukh Dhondy | Ordeal to enter India; and ways to avoid writers at...

A very pleasant and talkative driver drove me through the several traffic jams and road-work hold-ups in six hours to...

21 March 2022 12:40 AM IST