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Shobhaa De | 2021 was better than 2020! Will 2022 sizzle & crackle?

Europe shuts down, New Year's parties are cancelled across the globe, we in India are less despondent and generally...

25 Dec 2021 2:40 AM IST

Globalisation should mean the timely export of anti-Covid vaccines to countries and could even mean the suspension of patents for these and other medicines from which multinational Western firms make billions of dollars. (AFP file photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | It's exploitation, not compassion: Globalisation II &...

Global compassion is far behind the global instinct to exploit. Will it ever catch up? Inshallah!

25 Dec 2021 2:29 AM IST

The Covid-19 pandemic which inspired the new normal of work from home also questions an individual-centric world. (DC file photo)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | As bells toll for 2021, an end is also a beginning

At present, for around 37 per cent of jobs in developed countries and 10 per cent in developing countries, working from...

24 Dec 2021 12:43 AM IST

This image provided by Pfizer in October 2021 shows the companys COVID-19 Paxlovid pills. U.S. health regulators on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021 authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus. (Pfizer via AP)

Chandrakant Lahariya | FDA approval of Covid pill a sign of hope for...

The US Food and Drugs Administration approved an oral Covid-19 drug Paxlovid. Molnupiravir, too, received emergency...

24 Dec 2021 12:27 AM IST

Prime Minister Modi, with his love for technology, is enthused to bring everything into digital order, and all that he wants is to keep a close eye on every citizen. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Aadhaar's use and misuse: Govt spreads its...

The Modi government is misusing this gap in the definition of Aadhaar to extend the power of the State to identify and...

22 Dec 2021 11:52 PM IST

Dilip Cherian | After transfers, U'khand forest officers unite to...

With Assembly elections looming, the state government cannot afford to have a large section of forest officers feeling...

22 Dec 2021 11:30 PM IST

President Ram Nath Kovind being welcomed as the Guest of Honour by Bangladesh President Md. Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the gala celebrations of Mujib Borsho and Golden Jubilee of Independence of Bangladesh, in Dhaka (PTI Photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | How the past overwhelms Bangla's present &...

Culturally, economically, politically and strategically, the present and future of the 2 countries are too closely...

22 Dec 2021 7:07 AM IST

The court, after hearing the submissions, granted bail to the accused, saying his detention will serve no purpose as the probe into the matter is completed and nothing has to be recovered from him. (Representational image)

Aakar Patel | New law likely to spell trouble for Christians in...

In the first two weeks of December 2021 alone, attacks against Christians were reported in Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and...

21 Dec 2021 2:02 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting with the Foreign Ministers of Central Asian Countries, in New Delhi, Monday, December 20, 2021. (PTI)

K.C. Singh | As major powers jostle, world to face instability

Early this year, the foreign ministers of India, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and the US met in Israel to christen a...

21 Dec 2021 1:58 AM IST

A Covid-19 vaccine is administered inside the newly-set up Wembley Stadium vaccination centre at a mass vaccination event in London on December 19, 2021, as the booster rollout accelerates in England. (AFP)

Kishwar Desai | No. 10 parties' raise a ruckus; gender-neutral Brits...

For those of us who grew up in a simpler world, possibly too black and white it is an opportunity to re-learn

20 Dec 2021 2:29 AM IST

It looks like that the Yogi Adityanath government in Lucknow and the Narendra Modi government in New Delhi were waiting for election time to usher in the goodies, as it were. (AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will Modi-Yogi shock & awe campaign work...

The spate of inaugurations do not really speak of achievements, but it is a way of hiding the absence of achievements

20 Dec 2021 1:26 AM IST

Even more alarming is the human rights situation in Afghanistan with extrajudicial killings becoming the norm rather than the exception. (Representational Image/ AP)

Manish Tewari | Four months on, Taliban's inner contradictions show

The ignominious exit of the US and the flight of President Ashraf Ghani still remains an enigma wrapped in a riddle and...

19 Dec 2021 2:48 AM IST