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The disadvantaged are denied a fair shot in a system crowded with specalised coaching classes that begin early in a students life and are exorbitantly priced by the more successful tuition centres. (Representational Image/ DC File)

AA Edit | A NEET solution worked out by the top court

Quota for OBCs in MBBS and MD courses under the all-India quota (15%) seats and the 10% reservation in the EWS

11 Jan 2022 1:00 AM IST

Mikhail Gorbachev (Twitter)

Saeed Naqvi | Wasn't world a better place in middle of the Cold War?

My memory of the events three decades ago is of a personal nature as I was the only journalist who interviewed Mikhail...

10 Jan 2022 1:38 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during the 4th G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) Meeting, in Washington DC, USA. (PTI Photo)

Sanjaya Baru | Awaiting hope and hype in Union Budget speech

The rich seek incentives to open their purses and invest, loaded with cash as many are, while the rest seek livelihood...

10 Jan 2022 1:15 AM IST

PM Modis convoy stuck at the flyover. (Photo: ANI)

Pavan K. Varma | The flaw in PM's security: Rise above politics, fix...

Any attempt to politicise this matter is most deplorable. But unfortunately, this is precisely what the BJP did

9 Jan 2022 1:29 AM IST

A health worker takes a swab sample of a child for COVID-19 test, at municipal corporations testing centre at Manpada, in Thane, Saturday, January 8, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Kulbir Kaur | Covid 3.0: Help, the walls are closing in

Two Januarys earlier, Covid-19 having just spread to our enemy nation towards the north

9 Jan 2022 1:10 AM IST

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar. (PTI Photo)

Anita Katyal | Pawar struggle over Speaker's post; Mahua's fall from...

Is Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar deliberately delaying the election of a new Speaker of the Maharashtra...

9 Jan 2022 12:37 AM IST

Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik. (DC Image)

Shobhaa De | Forget Omicron: Get into the TINA, MITA, PITA groove...

Even if Omicron is a 2022 version of the common flu, it's certainly far more infectious

8 Jan 2022 2:37 AM IST

Tony Blair who was made a knight, this year. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of empires and their honours: A step backwards for UK...

The signatories believe that instead of being knighted, Tony Blair should be tried as a war criminal

8 Jan 2022 2:12 AM IST

Many of these institutions have worked in India for decades on difficult problems where government services were either inadequate or unavailable, such as leprosy and tuberculosis, healthcare and emergency relief. (Twitter)

Shikha Mukerjee | What's suspicious about overseas contributions?

For the MHA to tersely state that these institutions have been denied permission because of 'violations' is not...

7 Jan 2022 1:30 AM IST

President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in. (Twitter)

Skand Tayal | Korean lessons: Pardon politics, prosecutors, big...

This year, rather surprisingly, President Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party of Korea pardoned his predecessor, former...

6 Jan 2022 3:31 AM IST

Some 60 per cent of Indians who still depend financially on farming struggle with debt, bankruptcy and endemic suicide. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Eco mess, climate of hate, Covid: Tough days...

The World Bank reckons that its share of the gross domestic product dropped from 43 per cent in 1967 to 16 per cent in...

6 Jan 2022 1:55 AM IST

Justice Prateek Jalan ordered CBSE to consider as representation a petition by Deepa Joseph, mother of a Class 10 student studying in a CBSE affiliated school here, who had paid Rs 2,100 as examination fee. (PTI Photo)

Dilip Cherian | Secys' shuffle in Delhi: Change of guard, or is it...

Nine Central ministries and departments got new secretaries

5 Jan 2022 1:45 AM IST