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As climate change plays out and we see more frequent extreme weather and floods, how communities respond to those events may predict how resilient they become and how they will recover. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

With onset of climate change, securing needs of people vital

So far there is no indication that global temperature increase will be contained within one degree Celsius by 2050.

21 Jan 2020 4:34 AM IST

Terming the Niti Aayog report on PSEs the handwork of a few consultants, the RSS affiliate has demanded that the report should be junked.

Crass opinion & Kashmiris

The top court slated the Union government for the Internet lockdown in the Valley for months together.

21 Jan 2020 4:32 AM IST

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina questions CAA

Bangladesh has emerged as India's most consequential neighbour and friend in South Asia, in the economic sphere and...

21 Jan 2020 4:30 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Can one be drunk and still get enlightened?

Your consciousness is burdened so much with anxieties, worries, anguish, that you take a drink and feel good because...

20 Jan 2020 2:01 AM IST

Britains royal family draws fans around the world, eagerly following special occasions, their outings, and in the cases of Kate and Meghan, their outfits. (Photo: Instagram @kensingtonroyal)

Brexit is past: We are now divided by Megxit

People are totally divided over whether Meghan is an angel or a devil.

20 Jan 2020 1:59 AM IST

One indication that the NRC and the CAA have so far not affected India-Bangladesh ties is that the border security forces of both nations held their 49th director- general level talks from December 25 to 30, 2019. Indias Border Security Forces (BSF) delegation was headed by its DG, Vivek Johri, and Border Guards Bangladeshs (BGB) delegation was headed by its DG, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Shafeenul Islam.

When resistance becomes a people's protest, only the people will...

Non-Muslims too joining the protests have meant that it is unable to disregard or discredit the rallies by relegating...

20 Jan 2020 1:54 AM IST

Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in LA on June 5, 1968, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries the same year. (Photo: AP)

Think tanks' role growing: Is that a good thing?

The United States always had a tradition of academics and policy wonks flitting in and out of government for short...

20 Jan 2020 1:50 AM IST

Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (Photo: PTI)

Decisive measures vital to revive India's growth

The moderation in nominal income growth has affected the consumption spending of the middle class.

20 Jan 2020 1:47 AM IST

The SPG cover of the Gandhis (Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi) was replaced with the Z-plus security of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) by the government.

India a split polity, but is still secular

Vajpayee served as Prime Minister from 1999 to 2004 when the Congress came to power with Manmohan Singh as Prime...

20 Jan 2020 1:44 AM IST

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut

Of Savarkar and the Sena

To set the record straight, Savarkar got out of the Andamans by writing mercy petitions to the British, assuring them of...

20 Jan 2020 12:52 AM IST

Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday criticised the Election Commission saying that by not announcing the Gujarat poll schedule, it has authorised Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare the dates at his last rally, after all freebies for the state were doled out. (Photo: PTI)

Storm in a teacup blows over in TN

TNCC chief K.S. Azahgiri, reportedly a loyalist of P. Chidambaram, may have been flying kites on a non-existent theme of...

20 Jan 2020 12:51 AM IST

Before becoming CM, Yogi Adityanath personally looks after Kalu and feeds him. (Photo: File)

Dilli Ka Babu: Commissioner system in UP

The government has initiated a major restructuring of the Railway Board, among other reforms .

19 Jan 2020 5:22 AM IST