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Afghan security officers inspect the site of a bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. A sticky bomb attached to an armored police Land Cruiser SUV exploded Saturday in the western part of the capital, Kabul, killing few policemen and wounding another, Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said. (AP/PTI)

AA Edit | Afghan: Get US to stay on

It is to be hoped that the incoming Biden administration begins to seriously invest in counter-terrorism in the...

18 Jan 2021 12:20 AM IST

A nurse, right, performs rituals to a box containing COVID-19 vaccines upon its arrival at a government Hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. (AP /Ajit Solanki)

AA Edit | Transparency the key to success of vaccine drive

If a vaccine is under trial and has not gone through the due process, its administration should be called clinical...

18 Jan 2021 12:10 AM IST

Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray is not likely to attend the bhoomi pujan ceremony of the Ram Mandir. (PTI Photo)

Will incorporate 'Karnataka-occupied areas' into Maharashtra: Uddhav

Maharashtra claims Belgaum and some other areas, part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency but currently in Karnataka, on...

17 Jan 2021 10:11 PM IST

A nurse wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks by people lining up for a coronavirus test at a hospital in Beijing, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. The coronavirus was found on ice cream produced in eastern China, prompting a recall of cartons from the same batch, according to the government. (AP)

Chinese city reports coronavirus found on ice cream

Most of the 29,000 cartons in the batch had yet to be sold, the government said

17 Jan 2021 2:17 PM IST

Kashi-Kevadia Express after it was virtually inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Varanasi, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. (PTI)

PM flags off 8 trains to boost connectivity to Statue of Unity

Modi said these trains will help boost tourism in the tribal region and increase connectivity to world's tallest statue,...

17 Jan 2021 1:58 PM IST

Cover page of Red Pill

Book REVIEW | A middle-aged writer navigates an alt-right world

Red Pill is a novel for our timesit captures the anxiety of ordinary citizens over growing racism and nationalism

17 Jan 2021 10:58 AM IST

Cover page of A Ridge Too Far by Captain Amarinder Singh

Book REVIEW | A captain's frank perspective on an unjust and devious...

A Ridge Too Far is a catchy but apt title reminiscent of A Bridge Too Far authored by Cornelius Ryan and made into a...

17 Jan 2021 9:37 AM IST

Cover page of Hellfire by Leesa Gazi

Book REVIEW | What happens to women in a matriarchy, and other secrets

Mouthwatering descriptions of food have become a requisite for such novels but Gazi adds a twist to her descriptions

17 Jan 2021 8:03 AM IST

The plea by Bhartiya Kisan Union (Lokshakti) also sought the presence of a former top court judge on the reconstituted committee. (Photo:PTI)

Farmers' union moves Supreme Court, seeks new panel

Plea seeks impartial committee to resolve farmers' issue

17 Jan 2021 4:52 AM IST

The controversy, however, is more about the drug regulators emergency approval to the second coronavirus vaccine, the indigenously produced Covaxin, before critical efficacy data of the third phase of clinical trials are out.

Covaxin jabs possibly part of Bharat Biotech's Phase 3 trial

When Covaxin's emergency use was approved by the government, it was done under clinical trial mode

17 Jan 2021 4:39 AM IST

Given its abject failures on the economic front, the BJP/RSS regime in New Delhi is now pushing India towards a Hindutva nationhood, by seeking to victimise a minority for the perceived wrongs and slights of the past. (Representative Photo:AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | An important lesson from India's history for PM Modi

An intolerant religion can never be the basis of nationhood and national unity in India

17 Jan 2021 4:29 AM IST

Im not the sort of writer who spent the Pandemic lockdown carefully crafting my creative skills and honing my talent so I could write that exemplar novel, that series of high philosophy essays to understand humanity, that definitive book on the state of the nation. (Representative Photo)

Ranjona Banerji | My one true calling and how life got in the way

As an adolescent, like most others, I wrote those poems. Emotions crystallized in show-off nonsense from studying...

17 Jan 2021 4:14 AM IST