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It took eight months to hit 1 million dead but less than four months after that to reach the next million. (Photo:AP)

This is not a game': Global virus death toll hits 2 million

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the 2 million milestone has been made worse by the absence of a global...

16 Jan 2021 1:12 AM IST

Morarka was associated with Indian cricket as an administrator and he has served as vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. By arrangement

Former Union minister Kamal Morarka dies at 74

Morarka was associated with Indian cricket as an administrator and he served as vice-president of the Board of Control...

16 Jan 2021 12:58 AM IST

India says it needs the long-range surface-to-air missiles to counter the threat from China. (Representational Photo:Reuters)

India's friction with US rises over planned purchase of Russian S-400...

India has affirmed its right to choose its defence supplies

16 Jan 2021 12:43 AM IST

A copy of the petition, seen by Reuters, said Whatsapp was jeopardizing national security by sharing, transmitting and storing user data in another country with the information thus governed by foreign laws. (Representative Photo:AFP)

WhatsApp faces first legal challenge in India over privacy

WhatsApp has made a mockery out of our fundamental right to privacy, the petition said

16 Jan 2021 12:22 AM IST

So a step the Holy See takes to rework its hugely patriarchal system and make it more inclusive would be making history, and will have a catalytic and cascading effect. (Photo:AFP)

AA Edit | A seat at the table

The Pope, however, has once again refused to give women the permission to become priests

16 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

US President Donald Trump . (AP)

AA Edit | Does America have spine to convict its President?

Faith in the system has also eroded at a time when the pandemic has killed more Americans than World War II and Vietnam...

16 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

This year elections are due in two states in the east -- West Bengal and Assam -- and three states/UTs in the south -- Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Its important to note that all these are now governed by different parties and no party has a government in more than one state. (Representative Photo)

Sanjay Kumar | Elections 2021: A mixed bag of hope & challenges

2021 is going to be more eventful, as five states are going to the polls in the middle of this year

16 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

The deniers of vaccination who pose a puzzle are those who have no such complete theory of the universe. What they have instead is the Internet through which the most abject nonsense is spread. (Representational Photo:AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Time for all to get Covid jabs; don't listen to...

There are millions of idiots around the world who are anti-vaccers

16 Jan 2021 12:00 AM IST

A BJP party rally held in Kolkata, ahead of West Bengal assembly elections. (PTI)

BJP, TMC in war of words over number of legislators seeking to change...

BJP's Bengal minder Kailash Vijayvargiya claimed in Indore that 41 MLAs of the TMC are in touch with the saffron party

15 Jan 2021 2:30 PM IST

This handout photo taken and released on January 15, 2021 by Indonesias National Disaster Agency shows rescuers looking for survivors trapped in a collapsed building in Mamuju, after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Sulawesi island. (Photo by Handout/ National Search and Rescue Agency / AFP)

At least 34 killed as quake rocks Indonesia

Rescuers were searching for more than a dozen patients and staff trapped beneath the rubble of the levelled Mamuju...

15 Jan 2021 11:00 AM IST

A health worker shows the Covishield vaccine, after arrival of the first batch of the vaccines from the Serum Institute of India. (PTI)

Pregnant, lactating women should not be given COVID-19 vaccine now:...

The ministry has listed precautions and contraindications for COVID-19 vaccination along with a comparative factsheet...

15 Jan 2021 10:32 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PTI photo

PM Modi to launch COVID-19 vaccination drive on January 16

Modi is likely to interact via video link with some healthcare workers fwho will be receiving the shots on the first day

15 Jan 2021 9:17 AM IST