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A health worker collects swab samples of residents for Covid-19 testing, in Gurugram. (PTI)

Chandrakant Lahariya | Don't worry too much as Covid cases surge again

Most of those tested positive are asymptomatic or mild symptomatic & had got themselves tested voluntarily, for travel...

20 April 2022 12:38 AM IST

Several houses, religious places and shops were gutted in Khargone as the communal violence, after an attack on a Ram Navami procession, spread to different parts of the city by late Sunday night. (Representational Image/PTI)

Aakar Patel | India likely to stay on US list of concern' on human...

The world is not blind to what is happening in India today and it is uncomfortable with it

18 April 2022 11:55 PM IST

Members of the UN Security Council vote to abstain from a resolution proposed by the Russian Federation and therefore preventing its passage during a meeting of the UN Security Council, Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP)

Mohan Guruswamy | What kind of a role should India get in a wider...

India's diplomacy for the past many years has increasingly focused on securing permanent membership of the UN Security...

18 April 2022 10:46 PM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Can Imran do in Pakistan what Erdogan did in Turkey?

Anti-Americanism is a sure-fire electoral trick in a Muslim country that nurses a deep grievance against the US

18 April 2022 12:45 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden (PTI file image)

Sanjaya Baru | US does a lot for India, but India too does a lot for...

What the bilateral trade figures do not reveal is the transfer of wealth from India to the US through the export of...

18 April 2022 12:05 AM IST

Hindus want a government that does not discriminate between religious communities, does not pursue minority appeasement, and recognises some of the remarkable and verifiable achievements of Hindu civilisation. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Pavan K. Varma | Do marching saints truly care what Hindus want?

The attempt to convert this great Sanatana Dharma into some kind of Wahabi faith is doomed to failure

17 April 2022 12:32 AM IST

Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi after paying tribute to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary, at Parliament House in New Delhi, Friday, Aug 20, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Anita Katyal | Why Cong pulling its punches in MP; RLD's Jayant nurses...

It is obvious that the Bharatiya Janata Party's charge that the Congress indulges in minority appeasement has...

17 April 2022 12:31 AM IST

Incapable of such eloquence ourselves, we can certainly see how this month, with all the beauty and fresh infusions of natural life that it brings, rejuvenates us too, putting a spring in our steps and stirring hope. (By Arrangement)

Shreya Sen-Handley | April showers bring bunnies and flowers

Knowing that all's not lost encourages us to pull up our socks, and set the world to rights

17 April 2022 12:03 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Troubles piling up for Hedgie: Non-dom' wife,...

There exists a perfectly legal way of evading tax on one's income from abroad by declaring that one is a 'non-dom' --...

15 April 2022 11:16 PM IST

Shobhaa De | Padosis' and desis' and their uneasy relationships

We desis have always nurtured a love-hate relationship with our neighbours (padosis) through the ages

15 April 2022 10:57 PM IST

Pakistans Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. (ANI File)

Anand K. Sahay | Can Shehbaz & Bajwa, with US help, bring about thaw?

The game is doubtless aimed at winning the country back from Mr Khan's populist wiles

14 April 2022 11:02 PM IST

Sikkim chief minister Prem Singh Golay. (Twitter)

Dilip Cherian | 'Non-performers' in Sikkim govt are going to be sent...

Last year, an extensive drive was conducted against officials reporting late for work in govt offices and the latecomers...

14 April 2022 12:47 AM IST