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The Indo-China border (AFP)

AA Edit: China shows who's the boss

Chinese soldiers resorted to rods and bats, inviting Indian retaliation

14 May 2020 6:44 PM IST

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Twitter)

AA Edit: Has PM Modi grown highly cautious about the economy?

The biggest announcement was the government's decision to extend sovereign guarantee to Rs 3 lakh crores worth working...

14 May 2020 6:29 PM IST

Representational image (PTI)

Nilanjan: Abandonment whiff to Centre's lockdown exit

India's ruling establishment has so far come across as a bewildered lot, unsure of any path but polarising politics and...

14 May 2020 5:49 PM IST

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan (PTI)

Dilli ka Babu: MP's coronavirus blues

The probe has given a clean chit to IAS officers Pallavi Jain Govil and J.Vijay Kumar, both of whom had tested positive...

14 May 2020 5:28 PM IST

Baseball fans enter the Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Friday, May 8, 2020. Up to 1,000 spectators are now allowed in the stands for baseball in Taiwan on Friday, albeit spaced far apart as a safeguard against the spread of the coronavirus, but they are still barred from bringing in food and concession stands are still closed. (Photo | AP)

How Taiwan kept COVID-19 cases down to a mere 440, despite close ties...

The country's speedy, efficient and expert-led action, despite not having WHO membership, becomes a blueprint for...

13 May 2020 10:44 PM IST

r: Farmers harvest strawberries in a field, during the ongoing nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, in Srinagar, Wednesday. PTI photo

Chandrajit Banerjee: How to restart economy in a way that's safe and...

With companies shutting shop as a result of the lockdown, the corporate performance outlook for the current financial...

13 May 2020 6:16 PM IST

Sir Ronald Ross (Twitter)

Hyderabad's Ronald Ross: Remembered but also forgotten

Later, in 1898, in Kolkata, Dr Ross worked out the life history of the malaria parasite in birds

13 May 2020 6:14 PM IST

China and India agreed to end the lengthy Doklam standoff in August 2017, with Beijing reportedly abandoning plans to construct the road that had triggered the crisis. (Photo: AFP)

Claude Arpi: A long hot summer is ahead on Himalayan heights

It is a fact that in early 2017, everyone in New Delhi thought the Sikkim border was a settled issue.

13 May 2020 5:39 PM IST

Migrant workers along with their family members walk to their villages, due to no means of transport, during the nationwide lockdown, near Anand Vihar railway station in New Delhi (PTI)

Anand K Sahay: India's working class as Little Red Riding Hood

Their lordships have evidently missed a trick or two in their officious lives

12 May 2020 5:48 PM IST

The government has not heeded the cash-strapped states demand for raising their borrowing limits but announced a massive hike of more than 50 per cent in its own numbers. AP Photo

AA Edit: Concerted efforts needed to tackle lockdown blues

The Central notification in force now mandates that all inter-state passengers undergo a 14-day quarantine

12 May 2020 5:14 PM IST

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. AFP Photo

AA Edit: Strong men no more

The chutzpah of Donald Trump boasting of having fared better might have Republican admirer, but everyone else is quite...

12 May 2020 4:53 PM IST

Employees of German car manufacturer Porsche wear face masks as they work on power trains for the Taycan full-electric sportscar at the production site in Stuttgart, southern Germany. AFP Photo

Aakar Patel: Job security is a distant dream in lockdown times

The meaning of job security becomes especially clear in a time like this. For crores of us around the globe, that...

12 May 2020 4:36 PM IST