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Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Ghazni, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021. The Taliban captured the provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, the 10th the insurgents have taken over a weeklong blitz across Afghanistan as the U.S. and NATO prepare to withdraw entirely from the country after decades of war. (AP/Gulabuddin Amiri)

Syed Ata Hasnain | If the Taliban succeeds, regional chaos to follow

Pakistan was forced to assist in the global war on terror against the very same elements it had created

14 Aug 2021 7:36 AM IST

One of the implications of climate change that has not received much attention is its impact on civilisations. Representational Image. (ANI)

Indranil Banerjie | A hotter, wetter planet to trigger new world...

This calamitous warning comes from the latest report released earlier this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on...

13 Aug 2021 2:52 AM IST

The Kanpur riots yielded more sociological narratives of a different kind. Representational Image. (Twitter)

Saeed Naqvi | From Warsaw to Kanpur: A tale of 2 cities

Parallels between the two episodes in Warsaw and Kanpur have risks

13 Aug 2021 2:14 AM IST

The future looks even more turbulent more heatwaves worsened by higher humidity, erratic rainfall, more droughts, floods and forest fires. Representational Image. (Twitter)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Health a key priority in battling climate...

India, home to millions of the world's poorest, should be worried and better prepared

12 Aug 2021 3:51 AM IST

The NEP clearly states that schools should not merely condition and limit the students to mugging up facts and memorising information. Representational Image. (DC Image)

Gulshan Kaur | CBSE a leader in innovating reforms in line with NEP...

It aims at devising ways to disengage students from rote learning and engage them in experiential learning

12 Aug 2021 3:38 AM IST

Cover Page of Yoga of Rehab by Anjali Talcherkar

Anjali Talcherkar | How yoga helped me transcend my drug addiction

This was when I decided to shift my focus to being fully recovered

12 Aug 2021 2:58 AM IST

Coelhos characters are neither black nor white, rather they revel in being various shades of grey, yet they end up making the readers root for them. (Twitter)

Rachna Chhabria | Spooky treats that aim to please

By the time I finished reading the first story, I had built up a voracious appetite for the remaining tales

11 Aug 2021 1:42 AM IST

Mr Chahal is looking ahead and preparing to take on the dreaded third wave that is expected soon. (Twitter)

Dilip Cherian | Iqbal Chahal, superbabu' of Mumbai, & his amazing...

Iqbal Singh Chahal, a 1989 batch officer of the Maharashtra cadre, established a new benchmark in crisis management...

11 Aug 2021 1:33 AM IST

Mamata Banerjee. (PTI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Mamata antidote' to Modi? Khela Hobe strikes a chord

It is not entirely incidental that she has taken possession of the empty slot of Opposition leader

11 Aug 2021 1:21 AM IST

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman would perhaps explain that the Modi government did not move the amendment to the retrospective tax amendment as it wanted it to be proved how wrong the Mukherjee move was in terms of legality. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Retro tax scrapping will not lead to spurt...

Everyone felt that it was curtains at last for what is considered Pranab Mukherjee's policy folly as finance minister in...

10 Aug 2021 2:18 AM IST

Its not fully depleted, but its hard to escape the feeling that solving the problems of 2020 and 2021 will require something special which at the moment is not on view. (AFP)

Aakar Patel | Does Modi govt know what to do to tackle 2020 & 2021...

The most significant aspects of this period were the nationwide lockdown

10 Aug 2021 2:07 AM IST

With the shrinking footprint of the United States in the region and the relentless advance of the Taliban, the real Quad in connectivity which looms on the horizon is between a Taliban-dominated Afghanistan, an expansionist China, a hostile Pakistan and Uzbekistan --the only country that is friendly to India in this group. Image from the conference Central and South Asia: Regional Connectivity. Challenges and Opportunities. (Twitter)

Skand Tayal | Central Asia's bid for access to sea may see new Quad...

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev invited Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan as his...

9 Aug 2021 3:40 AM IST