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A health worker carries vials of the Covaxin vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus at a health centre in New Dehi. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Validation glimmer for Covaxin, hope for parents

The two-dose vaccine will be administered with a gap of 28 days

14 Oct 2021 7:26 AM IST

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has been detained in Uttar Pradeshs Sitapur while on her way to visit violence-hit Lakhimpur district, speaks to the media virtually. (PTI Photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Priyanka to lead UP race? Cong must stop...

With or without Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Congress alone cannot correct the distortions arising from this massive...

13 Oct 2021 1:20 AM IST

$Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday met Chinese President Xi Jinping and said there has been a \new direction and new energy\ in bilateral ties after their second informal summit in Chennai as the two leaders discussed ways to further strengthen India-China relations, including on the trade front. (Photo: Twitter/ Narendra Modi)$ Opinion

Appeasing China West's big failure: India's risk rises after fall of...

PM Modi gave a powerful address about the crisis in Afghanistan, the cost of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the need for...

13 Oct 2021 1:12 AM IST

Currently, the demand for space-based services in India is met only by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). (Representational image: PTI)

Rakesh Sasibhushan | Space sector offers new opportunities for Indian...

As of now, revenues from Satcom services in India are estimated at around $11 billion, though this is not a true...

12 Oct 2021 12:21 PM IST

It appears that terrorism is not going down because we have de-operationalised Article 370. Representational Image. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | How has ending Art. 370 helped Kashmir, or India as a...

That Article 370 was the root of separatism, terrorism, nepotism and corruption

12 Oct 2021 2:47 AM IST

The Chinese propaganda nevertheless speaks of creating a beautiful place by preservation of ecology and [providing] livability, health, charm, and happiness. Representational Image. (AFP)

Claude Arpi | Stop China from erasing the heart of the world'

Unfortunately, we can't expect an atheist regime in Beijing to understand the meaning of the word 'sacred'

12 Oct 2021 2:22 AM IST

Last year it was given Robert Wilson and Paul Milgrom for their contribution to auction theory. (Twitter)

Mohan Guruswamy | Who will get Economics Nobel today?

The 2021 laureate will be announced on Monday, October 11

11 Oct 2021 1:27 AM IST

The abhorrence for Pakistans ways and how these will lead the whole of J&K into a bigger trap of violence and counter violence must be dwelt upon for all segments of society. Representational Image. (AFP)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Protecting minorities in J&K amidst 1990s' fears

Three decades later, those threats seem to be once again translating into acts

11 Oct 2021 1:03 AM IST

The difference in heights between the two stars, Sushmita and Riya Sen, is intriguing, to say the least.

Shreya Sen-Handley | Heightism the long and the short of it

Some refer to us as vertically challenged' when trying to be polite

10 Oct 2021 9:10 AM IST

US President Joe Biden participates is a virtual press conference on national security with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the East Room of the White House. (Photo: AFP)

Manish Tewari | AUKUS is the Asian Nato; should India revisit NAM?

The moot point remains, why did the US and, by extension, the UK, undercut their Nato partner France in this manner?

10 Oct 2021 8:45 AM IST

Taliban fighters gather along a street during a rally in Kabul. (Photo: AFP)

Saeed Naqvi | US doesn't really want to know why it lost in Kabul

The macabre headlines about US Marines urinating on a pile of dead Afghans made Page One in many newspapers

9 Oct 2021 1:55 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Why I'm happy to be a snob amid linguistic...

Indian historians, even in my school days, decolonised the accounts of Indian history written by British Raj historians

9 Oct 2021 12:53 AM IST