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For college graduates or young professionals who join as Army interns, it may be win-win situation. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Soldiers and citizens

While initially only about 100 officers and 1,000 jawans may be inducted for the Tour of Duty , if the government...

15 May 2020 6:18 PM IST

Evidently, the atmosphere of mistrust between the government in Kabul and the Taliban is complete. This cannot but further complicate the prospects of a so-called intra-Afghan dialogue. AP Photo

AA Edit: In a matter of months, Afghan peace unravels

The violence of May 12 have led the government of President Ashraf Ghani to officially end the defensive posture by the...

15 May 2020 5:52 PM IST

In this March 30, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump opens a box containing a 5-minute test for COVID-19 from Abbott Laboratories as Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. AP Photo

Saeed Naqvi: Fair is foul & foul is fair in Trump's world

As the world focuses on fighting coronavirus, US claws are out, groping the Venezuelan coastline, using Colombian...

15 May 2020 5:34 PM IST

Migrants queue up for thermal screening on their arrival at Amethi railway station from Gujarat by a special train, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Amethi. PTI Photo

Dev 360: Can gutting labour laws spell advantage to India?

The key assumption is that labour rights are a major roadblock to business growth

15 May 2020 5:17 PM IST

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