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Indias Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (lower L), Japans Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (lower R), Japans Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (centre R), Australias Foreign Minister Marise Payne (centre L) and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (top L) attend a Quad Indo-Pacific meeting at the prime ministers office in Tokyo. AP Photo

K.C.Singh | Can Quad' grow into a force that China fears?

This week's Quad meeting was timely also because Japan had a change of leadership, with the ailing Abe passing the baton...

9 Oct 2020 4:05 PM IST

The viruses Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B had been discovered by the mid-1960s

AA Edit | Towards an HCV-free world

An estimated 71 million people worldwide suffer from chronic HCV infection, requiring liver transplants

7 Oct 2020 6:47 PM IST

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses media on the outcomes of the 42nd GST Council meeting, in New Delh. PTI Photo

AA Edit | GST cess: Centre must act quickly, responsibly

The government must act wisely again and offer to meet its legal and moral obligation to the states when the Council...

7 Oct 2020 6:22 PM IST

Students during a protest rally over the death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly gang-raped two weeks ago in Hathras. PTI Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hathras: Yogi government's offensive...

The charges against the protesters include conspiracy, treason and abetting enmity between communities and castes

7 Oct 2020 6:13 PM IST

: RJD leaders Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav leave after the grand alliance press conference ahead of the Bihar Assembly Elections, in Patna. PTI Photo

Anita Katyal | Tejashwi, Chirag play long game; Hathras wakes up...

Reports say Paswan and Yadav have been in touch with poll strategist Prashant Kishor who has told them that they should...

5 Oct 2020 8:44 PM IST

ife-size posters of BJP leaders displayed at party office ahead of the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, in Patna. PTI Photo

Waqyanawis | Hope alive for those shown the door in BJP reshuffle

The November 10 verdict is keenly awaited when results of these by-polls would be declared along with the Bihar Assembly...

4 Oct 2020 6:46 PM IST

A television journalist reports from the spot where the 19-year-old woman, who was allegedly gang-raped by four men, was cremated on the outskirts of Bool Garhi village in Hathras in Uttar Pradesh. AP Photo

Pavan K Varma | Napping media awakes, puts Yogi Adityanath on the spot

Thanks to the media, most of them brave young women, the entire nation was sickened by the pitiless and high-handed...

4 Oct 2020 6:28 PM IST

Picture credits: Stephen Handley

Shreya Sen-Handley | A Kolkata Kumroween' & other COVID sacrifices

There can be no Kumroween this year. No festivities of any sort for us in Kolkata

4 Oct 2020 6:23 PM IST

New NCRB crime data reports 59,853 crimes against women from UP in 2019, the highest among states

AA Edit | Will the government pledge of peace, women's safety?

When the erstwhile government, which returned to power in 2019, said Beti Bachao, it was perhaps not a slogan. It was a...

3 Oct 2020 7:20 PM IST

We have observed that teachers and students have moved away from drab textbooks and learned to explore the World Wide Web for resources. AP Photo

Devi Kar | Surprising outcomes as schooling goes virtual' in COVID...

Online schooling was generally vilified, and it was felt that the already poor state of school education in India was...

3 Oct 2020 6:46 PM IST

People from various organizations stage a protest against the alleged gang-rape of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Uttar Pradeshs Hathras, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Shobhaa De | Dalit lives: No more than a heap of ashes

To call UP anything else but a barbaric, no man's land, would be insulting women across the country

3 Oct 2020 6:26 PM IST

Red, white and blue lights illuminate 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Britains prime minister, in central London on January 31, 2020, after Britain left the European Union at 2300GMT. Brexit supporters gathered outside parliament to cheer Britains departure from the European Union following three years of epic political drama.(AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Had UK Home Secy been in post in 60s, she wouldn't be...

Patel suggested immigrants who attempt to cross the English Channel to land illegally in Britain, should be transported...

3 Oct 2020 7:00 AM IST