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The country saw over 90,000 total hospital admissions for children 17 years old and under from August 1, 2020 to January 13, 2022, CDC data showed. (Representational Image/AP)

Ranjona Banerji | In India's hospitals, don't expect end-of-life care

We have learnt as a family that what we lack most terribly in India is geriatric care and an understanding of the last...

20 Feb 2022 3:01 AM IST

Students of government Pre-University college in Kundapur town wearing hijab arrive at their college in Udupi district in Karnataka. (Dinesh Rayappana Matt / AFP file)

Pavan K. Varma | Our duty is to put back nuance in hijab debate

The hijab dispute is now sub judice, and is being heard by the Karnataka high court

20 Feb 2022 2:36 AM IST

Former Union minister Ashwani Kumar. (DC Image)

Anita Katyal | Shah, Digvijaya share this habit; Ashwani's beef...

Ashwani Kumar who quit the Congress last week, spoke eloquently about how the Congress policies did not reflect the...

20 Feb 2022 2:08 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | New UK crisis: Chicken tikka masala at risk as prices...

Of course, one should be concerned about the thousands of jobs that will be lost if a sizeable number of restaurants...

18 Feb 2022 11:40 PM IST

A still from the recent Bollywood release Gehraiyaan. (Photo: Twitter)

Shobhaa De | Needed: More gehraiyaan' both in movies and politics

It's this precise lack of depth in politics and public life that we as a nation have grown to accept in a resigned,...

18 Feb 2022 11:26 PM IST

Dilip Cherian | Disinvestment & its discontents: Targets modest rather...

The Budget is done and dusted, and the tough part starts now, which is implementing the proposals

18 Feb 2022 12:44 AM IST

Voters wait in queues to cast votes at a polling station during the 7th phase of West Bengal Assembly elections at a village near Balurghat in South Dinajpur district, Monday, April 26, 2021. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Confusion in Punjab amid new alliances,...

Why should we remember Punjab's political past of nearly 60 years in the 2022 state Assembly election?

18 Feb 2022 12:29 AM IST

In the run-up to 2024, state elections will be fought by regional parties in defence of a multi-party, multi-location system of democratic politics. Representational Image. (AP)

Shikha Mukerjee | An election without a wave: Canny voters & canny...

It is noticeable that Mr Modi's UP campaign has been low key till now

17 Feb 2022 6:48 AM IST

In September 2021, a reference was sent to sector regulator TRAI, seeking recommendations for the 5G spectrum auction and various modalities such as reserve price, band plan, block size, quantum of spectrum to be auctioned, it said. (PTI Photo)

Pradeep S. Mehta and Sidharth Narayan | 5G rollout and aviation...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has clarified that this problem does not exist in India

17 Feb 2022 3:39 AM IST

The consistent stand of India, whether it was that of the BJP-led NDA or the Congress-led UPA, was that there are no good Taliban or bad Taliban , and that the Taliban as Islamic terrorists were all bad. Representational Image. (PTI)

Shanthie Mariet D'Souza | India needs to be more imaginative in...

Things changed dramatically for India on August 15, 2021 in Afghanistan with the Taliban's capture of power

16 Feb 2022 3:49 AM IST

The young men in saffron scarves who yelled Jai Shri Ram! at girl students in hijabs were deliberately trying to foment serious political and religious conflict. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Of prejudice and religion: Free choice is...

There is no alternative to social evolution in a free society that respects everyone's right to choose his or her...

16 Feb 2022 3:35 AM IST

Muslim women gather to participate in a march against banning Muslim girls wearing hijab from attending classes at some schools in Karnataka, in New Delhi. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Aakar Patel | Let women wear the hijab or not: It's not the job of...

The hijab issue has again brought what India is doing to its minorities to the notice of the world

15 Feb 2022 1:49 AM IST