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among all childhood vaccines, measles is one of the most effective vaccines and two shots of the measles vaccine to a child reduces the risk of disease that is close to negligible. (Representational Image/AP)

Chandrakant Lahariya | Amid surge in measles cases, it's time to step...

A measles vaccine has been available since 1963 and used in India's universal immunisation programme since 1985

9 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Governor Arif Mohammad Khan (Photo: ANI)

Dilip Cherian | Kerala babu finds himself caught in crossfire between...

The Kerala high court dismissed a petition which sought the court's intervention to ensure that the governor signs bills...

8 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Don't set bar too high for India's G-20...

The G-20's consultative and advisory nature argues against the drama of the ambitious and action-oriented programme...

8 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Supreme Court (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The hidden politics behind Supreme Court's...

On the face of it, the collegium system is indeed untenable in principle in a democratic system. But it is not a simple...

7 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Sardar worked differently from Nehru, but had the same ideals

Aakar Patel | Sardar worked differently from Nehru, but had the same...

There is a belief that Sardar Patel would have sorted out Pakistan and we would never have had the Kashmir problem

6 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

If there are two large and rising powers in a region, rivalry is inevitable. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | Are India and China going to be rivals for all time?

The roots of our problem with China go back a couple of hundred years when Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander met in...

6 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of Basij paramilitary force in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (Photo: AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Will the protests compel Iranian regime to begin...

The Iran unrest began in September when 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died in the morality police's custody

5 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

The departures arent by any means a flood, but when there are just 800-plus families left in the Valley, it matters when even a few go away. (Representational Image/Twitter)

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmir still plagued by undercurrents of crisis

Of the 808 Pandit families in the Valley, 16 left their homes in August

5 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Advanced Training Jets of Indian Navy release flares from the sky during the International City Parade and the Operations display by the Indian Navy at the biennial Multilateral Naval Exercise, MILAN 22 at Ramakrishna Beach in Visakhapatnam. (File photo: DC)

Navy will play a bigger role in protecting India's global interests

India's ascendancy has indeed been remarkable and the joint efforts of all elements of national power have contributed...

4 Dec 2022 12:02 AM IST

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Shashi Warrier | The Internet limbo: Where have all the orders gone?

He was using the browser and at some Railways site in no time at all, with a form that he filled in while asking me...

3 Dec 2022 11:55 PM IST

View of Parliament House ahead of its Monsoon session in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

Manish Tewari | What ails Parliament?

A salient instrument of holding government accountable is Question Hour

3 Dec 2022 11:48 PM IST

A latest searching statistic in Britain has discovered that fewer than 50 per cent of the population now claim to be Christian (Representational Image/AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of right-wing bigots, religion & (in)tolerance in...

What the statistic tells us is that the influence of religion over life in Britain, unlike, say, in Iran or Afghanistan,...

3 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST