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Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, that is wedged across the Suez Canal and blocking traffic in the vital waterway is seen Saturday, March 27, 2021. Tugboats and a specialized suction dredger worked to dislodge a giant container ship that has been stuck sideways in Egypts Suez Canal for the past three days, blocking a crucial waterway for global shipping. (AP)

2 tugboats speed to Egypt's Suez Canal as shippers avoid it

The tugboats will nudge the 400-meter-long Ever Given as dredgers continue to vacuum up sand from underneath the vessel

28 March 2021 1:55 PM IST

A health worker collects a nasal swab sample from a woman to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus infection at a government hospital in Hyderabad. (AFP)

Daily COVID-19 deaths over 300 for first time this year, 62,714 new...

Registering a steady increase for the 18th day in row, active cases increased to 4,86,310 comprising 4.06 per cent of...

28 March 2021 11:18 AM IST

Banks worked mainly for R.D. Burman, (Banks terms him the Mozart of India ) Laxmikant Pyarelal, then Bappi Lahiri, till around the early 1990s. By arrangement

Chronicled, the incredible journey of India's shy, wry jazz king

Born in 1941 in war-torn Calcutta, Dambar Bahadur Budaprithi was re named Louiz to fit into the anglicised world of...

28 March 2021 9:48 AM IST

Reading these stories feels like viewing a series of unrelated Polaroid photos: just as one visual starts to come into focus, the next photograph is presented, still not fully developed. By arrangement

Cleverly imagined and deftly told, Sylvia wears pain lightly

Divided into two parts, the novel introduces several characters, all uniquely damaged, trying to make their way through...

28 March 2021 9:40 AM IST

Her reading of DRs personality on the whole is accurate despite the scarcely concealed admiration of a gushing fan but the uncritical appreciation of the films made at Bombay Talkies owned by Himanshu Rai

A well-researched but uncritical portrait of Bollywood's first lady'

Desai's reading of DR's personality on the whole is accurate despite the scarcely concealed admiration of a gushing fan

28 March 2021 9:31 AM IST

AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi. (PTI)

Asaduddin Owaisi withdraws support to Peerzada Abbas Siddiqui in West...

Owaisi kickstarted his campaign at Sagardighi in Murshidabad and announced the names of two candidates

28 March 2021 9:18 AM IST

Mamata Banerjee (PTI file image)

Mamata Banerjee lands in a tight spot after audio clip asking BJP man...

The BJP which tweeted the audio clip lodged a complaint against the CM with West Bengal's CEO Ariz Aftab and demanded...

28 March 2021 9:15 AM IST

A country that lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2004 and 2014 is today staring at the spectre of a growing income and wealth inequality. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | INDIA'S GILDED AGE

This privatisation turned out to be more of a societal shock, rather than therapy for an ailing economy

28 March 2021 4:49 AM IST

Women show their identity cards as they wait to cast votes at a polling station, during the first phase of Assembly polls, in Midnapore on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

80% turnout in West Bengal, 72% in Assam elections

30 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal & 47 Assembly constituencies in Assam on Saturday went to polls during the...

28 March 2021 4:49 AM IST

Weve all been here before; reassured by our leaders that theyll take firm steps to protect women, we watch history repeating as they blithely fail. (Photo: PTI)

Shreya Sen-Handley | Connecting the Dots

After rampaging diseases, our single biggest problem is male violence

28 March 2021 4:21 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | Acknowledge potential of Pope-Sistani historic tryst

Pardon my Lucknow chauvinism, but the benighted city once had intimate links with the centre of Shia Islam, Najaf, in...

28 March 2021 4:06 AM IST

Pagglaits setting, its characters, their sadness, banter, rituals, hypocrisy, everything rings true and has familiar familial warmth.

Pagglait review: There is life after some deaths

Bist has a firm grip on how the rituals of bereavement are played out by relatives in Indian families

27 March 2021 4:27 PM IST