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India went behind Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal on the Global Hunger Index. (AP file photo)

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Aakar Patel | India at a new low in Global Hunger Index: Does anyone...

This year, India's child wasting rate has increased to 19.4, the highest in 20 years

18 Oct 2022 7:18 AM IST

Chinas President Xi Jinping speaks during the opening session of the 20th Chinese Communist Partys Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16, 2022. - The effect was achieved through varying the lens focal length. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP)

Opinion

KC Singh | Xi Jinping era extended as China enters stormy seas'

A lone or small group of protesters, however, had rained on Xi Jinping's parade

18 Oct 2022 1:49 AM IST

Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss looks on before the live television debate for the candidates for leadership of the Conservative party, hosted by Channel 4 in London, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP)

Opinion

Kishwar Desai | Can Tories run Britain, or should Liz start a drive by...

Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister, is proving that sometimes it is best to be pragmatic and ditch election promises

16 Oct 2022 11:06 PM IST

Forcing the use of Hindi in non-Hindi regions by the Central government and Central public sector enterprises, including the nationalised banks, is causing avoidable resentment (Image credit: Facebook)

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Sanjaya Baru | The politics of language: India's unity in diversity

If Hindi enthusiasts are hurting the cause of their language, so are other such language enthusiasts in other parts of...

16 Oct 2022 10:56 PM IST

Fiction will be alive and kicking as long as we and our imaginations are alive. I think its people who are in the book business who need to check their pulses. Representational Image/DC

Opinion

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Fiction is dead.... Long live fiction

Fiction is in a dismal state, said a well-known literary agent

16 Oct 2022 7:54 AM IST

No Indian after Rabindranath Tagore in 1913 has got the Nobel for Literature. (Photo: Nobel Prize)

Opinion

Pavan K Varma | Are the criteria to award Nobel wholly objective?

Mother Teresa got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Only next year did we give her the Bharat Ratna

16 Oct 2022 7:52 AM IST

Opinion

Anita Katyal | Tharoor runs a lively campaign; what if Sourav joins...

Mr Kharge's social media presence might have lagged behind Mr Tharoor's but he made up for it with a slew of media...

16 Oct 2022 7:50 AM IST

$Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 9 blamed Ukrainian secret services for the huge blast a day earlier that ripped through Russias Crimea bridge, which he described as a \terrorist act\. (Photo: AFP)$ Opinion

Farrukh Dhondy | As Putin cuts off the gas, Europe looks ahead to a...

Mr Putin has retaliated by cutting off gas supplies and even sabotaging with leaks his own undersea gas pipeline

14 Oct 2022 11:28 PM IST

A ten-time MLA and a Parliamentarian, who also served as the Union defence minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav rose to national prominence in 1989. PTI

Opinion

Shobhaa De | Farewell Netaji': The akhada is now empty

That's the thing about people in the political akhada nobody gives a damn once they're out of power

14 Oct 2022 11:18 PM IST

The CPC under its overlord Xi Jinping refuses to play second fiddle to any global power. (AP)

Opinion

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Xi as new Mao? India & China face testing time

An unprecedented third term for Xi Jinping would silence those who seek to revive the debate on the market economy

14 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

Some rail babus even speculate whether the ministry will adopt the same method for the appointment of divisional managers and Board members. (Representational Image/ PTI))

Opinion

Dilip Cherian | Railway reforms slow down due to promotion delays

After rigorous efforts for over a year, the ministry has finally announced the appointment of 20 officers as...

13 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

Opinion

Anand K. Sahay | Loyalists' and Congress: Will polls change party?

Whatever the party's many failings, it is hard to see the Congress as a straitjacketed Stalinist outfit in which free...

13 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST