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There are reports of a minimum of 20 to 25 per cent price rise in domestic flights between most major Indian cities till Diwali season. (Photo: AFP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Flight safety is critical to aviation: Govt...

Major flight safety failures of the past must be remembered and analysed to ensure that they don't recur

13 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

India aims for half of state-run fuel stations to be solar-powered in five years. (PTI Photo)

Dilip Cherian | Winds of change: ONGC to scout renewables now

The government appointed Arun Kumar Singh, who had earlier headed BPCL, as the chairperson of ONGC.

12 Jan 2023 12:09 AM IST

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Shikha Mukerjee | Insurrection in America: How tail wagged the dog!

Over 150 years ago, the House of Representatives had voted 133 times to elect Nathaniel Banks as Speaker in 1856.

12 Jan 2023 12:02 AM IST

US economy entered recession in February. (AP Photo)

Indranil Banerjie | Seismic changes lie ahead as world faces hard...

There is little to cheer as we look ahead: yesteryears' global order is fast uncoupling and the world is into the fog of...

11 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi waving at people from the Bogibeel Bridge, the longest rail-cum-road bridge on Brahmaputra river. (Representational Image/PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Will linking rivers' work, or end up as a disaster?

The project, when completed, will consist of 30 links, with 36 dams and 10,800 km of canals diverting 174,000 million...

10 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Prince Harry and Meghan (Photo: Netflix)

Kishwar Desai | Will the 'Spare' (Prince Harry) end up richer than the...

All of London has been talking about nothing else.

9 Jan 2023 1:49 AM IST

Major American companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics are eyeing the Indian market now, which is projected to grow exponentially over the next decade. (Representational image: PTI File)

Sanjaya Baru | India-US ties: It's like riding a roller coaster

The US has so many diasporas from nations that it has poor relations with.

9 Jan 2023 12:51 AM IST

Aakar Patel | If our trade with China can see a rise, why not with our neighbours?

Aakar Patel | If our trade with China can see a rise, why not with our...

The World Bank says that trade between South Asian nations accounts for only five per cent of the region's total trade

9 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo:PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Successors & rising stars: Cabinet rejig to reveal all

What are the power dynamics in BJP under Narendra Modi? Whose stock is rising, and whose is declining?

8 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

Union Minister for Water Resources and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharati addressing a press conference at her residence in New Delhi. (Photo: AP)

Anita Katyal | Uma outburst a blow to BJP; Aiyar in good books of Cong

She has, in the recent past, taken on the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in her home state MP and is now targeting the...

8 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Besides security checks, I was worried about the airline, for wed been reading stories about how this particular airline didnt hesitate to beat up passengers. (Representational Image)

Shashi Warrier | In the name of flight security

You don't notice it much of the time but if you happen to need to fly somewhere and you're not used to it you could get...

8 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Indians -- or at least the Indian Chappaterati -- are keen on whiskies and think they can speak knowledgeably about them. (Representational Image)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of white wines & single malts: The snobbery over...

I never became a whisky connoisseur and will never pretend to be one. Wines? In a half-educated pretentious way? Maybe!

7 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST