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Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit via video, from Beijing on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021 (Li Xueren/Xinhua via AP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Fire in water: China in big Indian Ocean push

CPC has moved on to its mega snow-to-sea drive after completing its land, trade, commerce, banking and telecom...

3 Dec 2021 7:52 AM IST

People get inoculated with the dose of the Covaxin Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a temporary vaccination camp inside a school in Mumbai. (Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | The Greek alphabet is still roiling our lives

Omicron is the fifth such VOC, and the first since the Delta (B.1.617) variant which ravaged so many countries

2 Dec 2021 2:49 AM IST

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Dilip Cherian | Repatriated as future Gujarat chief secy, babu awaits...

The Supreme Court has ruled that successful UPSC aspirants do not have the right to be allocated the cadre of their...

2 Dec 2021 2:21 AM IST

Not surprisingly, a majority of teachers facing challenges in teaching said that children were unable to catch up with the curriculum (65.4 per cent). (Representational Image. PTI)

Rukmini Banerji and Wilima Wadhwa | Covid effect: Changes in schooling...

The drop in private school enrolment was accompanied by more children not being in school rather than a shift to...

1 Dec 2021 1:30 AM IST

Bangladesh has managed to improve manufacturings share of GDP in recent years from 16 per cent to 20 per cent while Indias has fallen from 15 per cent to 12 per cent since 2014. (Representational Image. DC File Image)

Aakar Patel | South Asia will be compelled to change as world gets a...

In terms of their Human Development Index, India is ranked 133rd in the world, Bangladesh at 135th and Pakistan at 154th

30 Nov 2021 3:11 AM IST

Shankaracharya arrested on November 11, 2004. (Twitter)

Mohan Guruswamy | The Kumbakonam of the Kanchi Shankaracharya

The Kumbakonam Mutt was established in 1821 by the Maratha king of Tanjore, Pratap Singh Tuljaji, as a branch of the...

30 Nov 2021 2:23 AM IST

Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi visiting US President Ronald Reagan at the White House. (Twitter)

Saeed Naqvi | When Indian diplomacy left both Moscow & US annoyed

In Washington, the PM was persuaded that the decision to recognise the Polisario should be, well, delayed if not...

29 Nov 2021 2:53 AM IST

It remains to be seen if in the remainder of his term Prime Minister Modi draws the right lessons from the jolt to his leadership given by a few hundred sullen farmers. Representational Image. (PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | The politics of reform: A tutorial for Mr Modi

It is the politics of policymaking that deserves a closer look than the economics of Mr Modi's initiative

29 Nov 2021 2:18 AM IST

An aged-woman holds a copy of the Indian constitution during a protest against Citizenship (Amendment) Act, outside Gandhi ashram in Ahmedabad. (PTI file Photo)

Pavan K. Varma | Opp. has done well to snub a hollow Constitution Day'

Jan 26 is the long-consecrated day to celebrate the promulgation of the Constitution. This new celebration on Nov 26 was...

28 Nov 2021 12:57 AM IST

Kulbir Kaur | From menu of faith, reason best chosen

It seems that only those who know how to exploit religion get to draw the winning ticket in the lottery of life

28 Nov 2021 12:31 AM IST

More intriguing is how Mamata Banerjee has used the BSFs territorial expansion to make common cause with Punjab. (PTI)

Anita Katyal | Why Didi is on poaching spree; cousins fight a turf war...

Mamata is also in touch with G-23 members, the group of Congress leaders who are known to be unhappy with the way...

28 Nov 2021 12:15 AM IST

More seriously, Brexit has caused a shortage of health service staff from doctors, to nurses, auxiliaries and ambulance drivers. (Representational Image. AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Turning human' migrants into a political weapon: UK...

Some commentators and Twitterers insist that they be called 'humans, not migrants'

27 Nov 2021 2:55 AM IST