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Sharon Lowen | View from the Covid cocoon

The inspiration came from an idea to scan my daughter's childhood photos for a digital birthday gift as I couldn't give...

31 Jan 2021 12:19 AM IST

In this file photo taken on December 8, 2020 a member of staff draws the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine out of a phial at the Southmead Hospital, Briston. (Graeme Robertson / various sources / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Time to bust anti-vaccine myths as all must get jab!

Some brave mullahs have turned their Islamic halls into vaccination centres and encouraged the community to get jabbed

30 Jan 2021 7:35 AM IST

India and China have been locked in a prolonged standoff in the area in the Sikkim sector since June 16 after Chinese troops began constructing a road near the Bhutan trijunction. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | China is on the rampage: Is India's elite...

On the Republic Day eve, it was clear the Dragon's aim and design was to devastate Delhi, to bleed India white and to...

30 Jan 2021 7:25 AM IST

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Sreeram Chaulia l Vaccine diplomacy is India's finest hour

The most remarkable feature of India's mission to supply the much- sought-after doses to a pandemic-plagued world is its...

29 Jan 2021 4:15 AM IST

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Anand K Sahay l Can Rahul or anyone salvage Congress, or will it...

The BJP had come into its own and formed governments at the Centre under a well-liked figure. In contrast, the Congress...

29 Jan 2021 4:15 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Foreign assets on IRS radar as CBDT lobbies for more...

Speculation is rife that Mr Sharma could be named the home minister or even deputy chief minister of UP

28 Jan 2021 7:13 AM IST

Security tightened at Red Fort, a day after it was stormed by protesting farmers during their tractor march, in New Delhi, Wednesday, January 27, 2021. (PTI /Kamal Singh)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | As farmers lose ground, government will...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has kept himself aloof from the issue apart from giving general, vague rhetorical responses

28 Jan 2021 7:06 AM IST

Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy (File Image)

V. Vijayasai Reddy | No space for communal politics in AP under Jagan

Communal hatred is being used in Andhra to divert people's attention away from the unprecedented welfare schemes of the...

27 Jan 2021 7:34 AM IST

US President Joe Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris (L) signs a a Made in America Executive Order, to increase the amount of federal spending that goes to American companies in the South Court Auditorium at the White House on January 25, 2021 in Washington, DC. (JIM Watson / AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | Biden's real challenge is to fix America's finances

The American crisis began unfolding when Richard Nixon disengaged the US dollar from the gold standard

27 Jan 2021 7:23 AM IST

If the BJP had studied the traditions of the celebration of Netaji Jayanti in West Bengal over the decades, it would have discovered the facts and stopped itself from inventing a fiction. (Photo:PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Battle for Bengal: BJP to face hidden pitfalls

Steering between the simplistic and the messy complexities of identity politics in West Bengal, the BJP is travelling...

26 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

The India growth story is over and has been over for a few years now. You can make all the speeches that you want, you cannot argue against 39 straight months of slowing down. (Photo: Reuters)

Aakar Patel | Growth is just not picking up, but no end to ...

We have entered the 13th consecutive quarter of economic slowdown in India

26 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das arrive for the RBI central board of directors in a customary post-budget meeting, in New Delhi on Saturday. PTI photo

Chandrajit Banerjee | Reviving growth: Government needs to do a fine...

The fiscal situation is now under stress driven by a shortfall in revenue collections due to a fall in GDP induced by...

25 Jan 2021 9:07 AM IST