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Nishith Pramanik is an MP of Coochbehar in North Bengal, Jagannath Sarkar is an MP of Ranaghat in Nadia.

2 BJP MPs skip MLA oath despite win; Suvendu Adhikari likely to be...

According to sources, the duo wished to the BJP leadership to continue as Lok Sabha MPs rather than as MLAs

10 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Kishwar Desai | Indian summer on UK's red list; royal duchesses in...

Some people are deeply unhappy that these restrictions are still in place, despite the vaccine

10 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Long March 5B rocket, carrying Chinas Tianhe space station core module, lifting off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern Chinas Hainan province. - A large segment of the Long March 5B rocket re-entered the Earths atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean, state television reported on May 9, 2021 citing the China Manned Space Engineering Office, following fevered speculation over where the 18-tonne object would come down. (AFP File)

Chinese rocket debris lands in Indian Ocean, draws criticism from NASA

The China Manned Space Engineering Office said most of the debris was burnt up in the atmosphere

9 May 2021 11:05 AM IST

What attracted attention, obviously, was his taking note of the upheaval caused by Mr Modis arrival in Delhi as Prime Minister, dealt with much panache in the first two chapters of the book under the attention-grabbing headings of Bombard The Headquarters and Modis Metaphors . DC Image

Book Review | A clinical view of the exit of Delhi durbar, not an...

Sanjay Baru's book analyses the changing complexion of India's diverse influence groups

9 May 2021 9:53 AM IST

Structurally, too, Ameeras circumstances feel temporary compared to Feroza Begums lifelong entrapment; the latter is better synchronised with Lalarukhs adventures. DC Image

Book Review | The grandeur and myriad horrors of a Begum's dastaan

Restless Ameera implores her dadi to tell stories about Feroza Begum, whose own restlessness had ruined her life

9 May 2021 9:52 AM IST

Patil is an idealist, a person who quit a well-paying information technology job to help save the world but her ideas of the things that constitute field research and conservation are similar to the ideas of bureaucrats and men with moustaches only in the most superficial way. DC Image

Book Review | Laugh and also ponder what patriarchy might do next

The book is a delightful account by a beleaguered researcher to investigate impact of government's agro-forestry policy...

9 May 2021 9:50 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses webinar on effective implementation of Budget provisions in Health sector, in New Delhi, Tuesday, February 23, 2021. (PTI)

After 8 years, India, EU to resume trade talks

A virtual summit between Modi and the heads of 27-member states of EU focused on cooperation in trade, investment and...

9 May 2021 9:22 AM IST

Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma (Photo: PTI File)

BJP legislature party meet to decide on CM candidate for Assam

The state unit of the party is abuzz that around 40 MLAs, including alliance partners, are backing Mr Sarma

9 May 2021 1:43 AM IST

A health worker takes a swab sample for a Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) at a roadside market following restrictions imposed by the state government amidst rising Covid-19 coronavirus cases, in Mumbai on April 6, 2021. (Indranil Muukherjee / AFP)

Covid+ test report not mandatory for admission to health facility:...

The directive comes following heavy criticism after serious patients were denied medical attention by hospitals owing to...

9 May 2021 12:34 AM IST

The drug comes in powder form in a sachet which is taken orally by dissolving it in water. PTI

DCGI approves use of 2-DG for treatment of Covid patients

Higher proportion of patients treated with 2-DG showed RT-PCR negative conversion in Covid patients

9 May 2021 12:32 AM IST

The billions of tax dollars avoided by multinational e-commerce, whilst feeding off the commercial data generated by their customers, often without explicit permission and without compensation and we have a fishbowl of growing global inequity. (Photo: AFP)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The social media djinn: Excluding and unsocial

India women are 26 per cent less likely to access mobile Internet due to misogyny, harassment and revenge porn

9 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Modernity with all its commitment to freedoms and reason is sought to be subordinated by monumental architecture to the will of the fascist state. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | The architecture of hubris

Fascism has a strange fascination with architecture

9 May 2021 12:00 AM IST