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A Covid-19 coronavirus patient lies in an ambulance while waiting to get an admission in a hospital in New Delhi. (AFP)

India reports 3,92,488 new COVID-19 cases, 3,689 deaths

Hospitals and patients continue to beg for beds and oxygen while state govts keep urging Centre to increase quotas and...

2 May 2021 11:39 AM IST

According to the Election Commission website, the BJP was leading in only 53 places. The two parties were locked in a neck-and-neck contest in the initial stages of counting. (AP Image)

Assembly polls: TMC surges ahead of BJP in West Bengal

Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee was, however, trailing her BJP rival and sitting MLA Suvendu Adhikari in...

2 May 2021 11:17 AM IST

An ambulance arrives at Batra Hospital, a dedicated COVID-19 facility, in New Delhi. (PTI)

12 critical Covid patients die at Batra Hospital in Delhi due to lack...

Dr Himthani, head of gastroenterology department, was among those who died due to lack of oxygen, said Dr S.C.L. Gupta,...

2 May 2021 12:30 AM IST

In the Bengali perception, Ray was an icon; his work was quintessentially Bengali, but his contribution was recognised as Indias gift to world cinema.

Shikha Mukerjee | Revisiting the legend @100: Ray's iconic role to...

Ray did not start out as a filmmaker with an agenda. He was a storyteller. But he responded to the shifts and changes in...

2 May 2021 12:20 AM IST

Like the proverbial pigeon that closes its eyes and believes that the cat has gone, Adityanath thinks that if he closes his eyes all the miseries that people in his state are facing will disappear. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Reprieve, for now, from Yogi's victim-blaming

Yogi Adityanath, the saffron dhari CM of UP, believes that everything in his state is hunky-dory

2 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | The mushroom business

Blind faith leaves you unaware of its ill effects. There's a profit to be made out of that faith

2 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Now, the cases heard by the Supreme Court have anywhere between two and 30 parties. Who decides who will be unmuted? (PTI)

National crisis says SC, warns against clampdown on raising grievances

The court asked the Centre why it can't buy vaccines and embark on the lines of the national immunization programme

1 May 2021 1:11 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Should we write English as it's spoken? Or just leave...

Despite its anti-phonic spelling, English has become the language of many nations albeit through colonisation and...

1 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Victims of Covid-19 being cremated at Dwarka cremation ground in New Delhi, Friday, April 30, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Shobhaa De | Can blatant lies save India from Covid-19?

The people of India are the country's real strength, while its biggest tragedy are its politicians

1 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Former Attorney General and Constitutional law expert Soli Sorabjee. (PTI File)

Former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee dies of COVID-19

The 91-year-old had served as the Attorney General for India from 1989-90 and then from 1998-2004

30 April 2021 11:25 AM IST

Relatives and family members perform last rites during mass cremation of COVID-19 victims, at Swar Rekha Ghat cremation ground, in Ranchi. (Photo: PTI)

Karan Thapar | India's grim reality out in the open as myths busted

It wasn't so long ago that we convinced ourselves we are a superpower or, at least, one that's definitely in the making

30 April 2021 4:51 AM IST

Voters queue up to cast their ballots for Bihar state assembly elections at a polling station in Patna on October 28, 2020. (AFP)

Exit polls give Mamata key edge, DMK ahead

Left to retain Kerala, BJP tipped to return in Assam, win Puducherry

30 April 2021 4:43 AM IST