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Is it realistic that the BJP will get 60 per cent of the 70 per cent Hindu votes in West Bengal? It would appear, as yet, difficult. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Despite Modi's push, BJP yet to reach tipping point

The need for a saturation campaign by Modi is one way of acknowledging that Mamata is a far stronger opponent than the...

12 April 2021 12:35 AM IST

One of the biggest achievements of this book is the lucid, non-judgmental manner in which Mahapatra debunks all the various swirls of misinformation around Covid-19 and its spread. DC Image

Book Review: Urgent, cogent, matter-of-fact ready-reckoner on the...

'Covid-19' does not just tackle the pandemic from scientific perspective but looks at historic, social and psychological...

11 April 2021 8:34 AM IST

Mr B a history buff was actually interested in finding some traces of Alexander the Greats historic march from Macedonia to Pakistan over two thousand years ago while the crew was more interested less in history and more in the sights and sounds of contemporary Peshawar. DC Image

Book Review: A decent sort of madness

The director's threat to leave Mr B and make his find his own way home, is answered by 'please do. I will walk home with...

11 April 2021 8:26 AM IST

Until a generation ago, there were two kinds of Muslims in India, the Communists and the conformists, Wahab says. DC Image

Book Review: Onus on the moderate Muslim to reclaim Islam's heterodox...

The predominant view about Sufism is that it exists outside Islam as a cult born out of the admixture of Hinduism with...

11 April 2021 8:15 AM IST

A workers carries out sanitization at New Delhi Railway Station, amid rise in coronavirus cases, in New Delhi. (PTI)

Delhi announces curbs on social, religious, sports, political,...

Restaurants, bars are allowed up to 50 per cent of their seating capacity

11 April 2021 8:04 AM IST

Paramilitary jawans guard as people wait in a queue to cast their votes at a polling station during the first phase of West Bengal Assembly elections, at Chandrapur in Lalgarh, Saturday, March 27, 2021. (PTI)

West Bengal polls: Paramilitary forces gun down 4 TMC workers during...

According to the CISF, the mob of around 150 first manhandled the polling staff at the booth

11 April 2021 3:27 AM IST

Senior citizens and other immune-compromised patients must not be called to hospitals for counselling for fear of them contracting virus in the air. Representational image

Patients turning Covid positive post elective surgeries

Experts say it is better that patients put off their surgeries in case they are not urgent

11 April 2021 2:02 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election campaign rally in support of his party candidates, during the ongoing West Bengal assembly polls, at Joynagar in South 24 Parganas district. (Photo: PTI)

Mamata accuses Shah of being 'conspirator' behind shooting of 4 TMC...

Seeing herself losing the chair, Didi has stooped to such a low level, says Modi

11 April 2021 1:57 AM IST

What then are Indias options to protect its broader strategic interests, namely, keep the Chinese at bay. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | The long view from New Delhi

The persisting stand-off with China must make India rethink its relationship structures both in the Asian and global...

11 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Indian subnationalism past its expiry date?

Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, represent exemplar benchmarks for regionalism with deep political, social,...

11 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee talks to media representatives in front of her temporary residence, in Nandigram, on March 31, 2021. (PTI/Ashok Bhaumik)

Election Commission reprimands Mamata for tirade against paramilitary...

Shah urged the TMC chief to apply her 'common sense', reminding her of the 'control' of the EC on the Central forces...

10 April 2021 10:11 AM IST

File photo of USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53). (Image: US Navy/Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)

US Navy challenges India's excessive maritime claims at Lakshadweep...

International law does not permit a nation to carry out military manoeuvres in the EEZ without the consent of the...

10 April 2021 8:57 AM IST