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The Biden team says not to worry; theyve teamed up with the CPC to combat climate change. (AP)

Maura Moynihan | Planet nightmare: Biden surrenders to Xi as the Year...

Before the summit, Mr Biden had said the US would defend Taiwan

19 Nov 2021 2:29 AM IST

Lancet COVID-19 Commission India Task Force concluded that there is no current evidence that an anticipated the third wave will target children specifically. (PTI file photo)

Suman Bhattacharjea | Worrisome trends over kids' education, future

Data from the recently released ASER 2021 report suggests that we have an uphill battle ahead

19 Nov 2021 1:29 AM IST

Culinary politics and battles over what one can eat, what one cant and where are likely to continue in the coming months as Assembly elections in various states draw closer. Representational Image. (DC File Image)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Veg or non-veg? In India's food wars, free...

The town planning committee of the AMC has just decided to make the city's public spaces free of street carts selling...

18 Nov 2021 2:09 AM IST

The site of Saturdays ambush is among the three listed drugs trafficking, more precisely heroin smuggling, routes through which the contraband articles are brought from Myanmar into Manipur for onward supply to the rest of India and outside. (AP)

Wasbir Hussain | Myanmar the key factor in Manipur's hot' insurgency

The key question that arises is why the security forces in Manipur have been taking such big hits

17 Nov 2021 2:36 AM IST

The view is that Mr Kumar will have ample time to get a grip on the state administration before the elections. (Twitter)

Dilip Cherian | Babu's return smacks of long term planning, Gujarat...

The current chief secretary is 1986-batch IAS officer Pankaj Kumar, who was brought in after Anil Mukim retired in...

17 Nov 2021 1:56 AM IST

Aakar Patel | If Indians focus on trivia, ignore hard reality, the...

On every meaningful measure, life for Indians compares poorly with those in other democracies

16 Nov 2021 11:42 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the World Leaders Summit Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment session at the COP26 Climate Conference. (AFP)

Padma Rao Sundarji | A cop-out for the world, but a triumph for India

India's unassailable position as a world leader in climate negotiations was reaffirmed by PM Narendra Modi in a simple...

16 Nov 2021 11:33 AM IST

India has developed the required shipbuilding skills, undoubtedly, but this needs to be combined with timely delivery for the Indian Navys operational preparedness. Representational Image (PTI)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Stealth ships to give fillip to Indian Navy's...

The West has been forced to do an about-turn

15 Nov 2021 1:34 AM IST

This is a spurious argument. Mr Modi was himself a very regional leader till 2013. (PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | Regionals' national role: Mapping a path to 2024

Mr Modi has, for sure, a full two years to craft his counter strategy and regain his popularity

15 Nov 2021 1:05 AM IST

About three per cent of the UK, five per cent of the US, and 12 per cent of Finland, to name just a few, suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder in the winter! (AFP Representational Image)

Shreya Sen-Handley | Season's affect and the comfort of darkness

In this first month of winter, in the colder reaches of the world, the nights draw near, and the days are hauntingly...

14 Nov 2021 2:42 PM IST

Bajrang Dal members stage a protest against the recent killings of Hindus and vandalism of a Durga idol by miscreants in Bangladesh. (PTI)

Pavan K. Varma | In mobocracy called India, art & rule of law...

The first myth that needs to be buried then is that there is a difference between the BJP and the so-called fringe

14 Nov 2021 2:19 AM IST

There is some talk that Mr Venugopal is being groomed to take of the role of Ahmed Patel, Sonia Gandhis political secretary. (PTI)

Anita Katyal | Venugopal's star rises in Congress, but the knives are...

Mr Venugopal has become so powerful that most general secretaries in charge of states have become virtually redundant

14 Nov 2021 1:38 AM IST