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A girl reacts as a health worker wearing protective gear prepares to collect her swab sample to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at sample collection centre in Hyderabad on October 29, 2020.(AFP)

AA Edit | Don't relax yet, ward off India's 2nd wave

October 30 recorded the highest-ever daily increase of 5.45 lakh new patients

31 Oct 2020 9:54 AM IST

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav addresses during the second leg of campaign for Bihar assembly polls, in Samastipur district, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. (PTI)

Shobhaa De | Battle for Bihar: Super flop or a blockbuster?

It's time for Battle cry Bihar ! And this stellar star cast can take the pants off just about any actor from Bollywood

31 Oct 2020 9:48 AM IST

Tata Sons interim chairman Ratan Tata

Farrukh Dhondy | Communist MP in Britain was Tata's cousin, Gandhi's...

The book is called Comrade Sak and is written by Mark Wadsworth, a black British writer with Caribbean roots

31 Oct 2020 9:42 AM IST

Students wearing face masks attend a class at a school that was reopened after closure for months owing to coronavirus pandemic, in Amritsar, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Schools are being opened as per guidelines issued in Unlock. 5. (PTI)

AA Edit | Heed ASER's red flag

The ASER study showed that during the survey week, only one in three rural children had engaged in a learning activity

30 Oct 2020 10:14 AM IST

Activists of Peoples Democratic party (PDP) protesting against Indias new land laws that allows any Indian citizen to buy land in the disputed region shout slogans in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. Until last year, Indians were not allowed to buy property in the region. But in August 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modis government scrapped the disputed regions special status, annulled its separate constitution, split the region into two federal territories. (AP)

AA Edit | Centre design in J&K stands exposed at last

In May this year, new domicile rules were devised to let some people from outside J&K to apply for permanent resident...

30 Oct 2020 10:07 AM IST

Arun Shourie is former BJP member and was Cabinet minister during Atal Bihari Vajpayees rule. (Photo: PTI)

Karan Thapar | Death talk: Euthanasia tales amid Covid times

The question this mesmerising account raises is did Arun's father, HD Shourie commit euthanasia?

30 Oct 2020 9:52 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, speaks during fifth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee in Beijing on Oct 29, 2020.(AP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Stop Dragon's free ride, don't let it exploit...

The Chinese Communist Party's mission to humiliate India has become more diabolical by the day

30 Oct 2020 9:46 AM IST

French President Emmanuel Macron looks on as he speaks to the press with the Estonian prime minister following their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on October 28, 2020. (AFP)

AA Edit | World must follow Macron

It is imperative upon other nations to confront this ever-growing global malaise and see through the power play of...

29 Oct 2020 10:12 AM IST

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a press statement, at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. (PTI)

AA Edit | Why India must not put all eggs in the US basket

The 2+2 talks had the obvious context of the Chinese aggression in Ladakh, and this enabled both sides to orchestrate...

29 Oct 2020 10:04 AM IST

CM Manohar Lal Khattar being greeted by then Chief Secretary D.S. Dhesi in 2019. (Twitter/@cmohry)

Dilip Cherian | Dhesi, Khattar's favourite, gets a second innings

It is likely that Dhesi will become another power centre in the CMO, with all important files meant for Khattar being...

29 Oct 2020 9:58 AM IST

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, second right, gestures towards U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second left, and Secretary of Defence Mark Esper, left, with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, right, standing beside him, ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020.(AP)

K.C. Singh | As US embrace deepens, watch for pitfalls ahead

Significantly, they were meeting just a week before Americans go to the polls to elect the President on November 3

29 Oct 2020 9:04 AM IST

Voters queue up to cast their ballots for Bihar state assembly elections at a polling station in Patna on October 28, 2020. (AFP)

AA Edit | Bihar polls may have a wider impact on nation

Many of the assumptions made about the electoral landscape today appear less well grounded than before

28 Oct 2020 9:49 AM IST