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The BJP is trying to hard sell itself for the GHMC elections by pressing its top guns like Union home minister Amit Shah, BJP president J.P. Nadda and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, besides a slew of union ministers, into service with an eye first on occupying the opposition space, and then to take a moonshot. (DC Image: R.Pavan)

Opinion

A Saye Sekhar | BJP, TRS play politics of alternatives

A civic body poll drawing national attention is apparently a first-of-its-kind phenomenon in India

27 Nov 2020 8:31 AM IST

Opinion

Karan Thapar | Contempt of court': A relook may be needed

Many will ask whether judges need to accept satire and criticism with good gracerather than seek protection of the law...

27 Nov 2020 5:47 AM IST

Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan keep a watch on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway ahead of the start of annual Amarnath Yatra, near Jammu. PTI Photo

India

2 Army jawans killed in attack by 3 car-borne militants near Srinagar

The slain soldiers were identified as Sepoy Rattan Lal of 163 Territorial Army and Sepoy Deshmukh of 101 Territorial...

27 Nov 2020 5:37 AM IST

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi (Photo: ANI)

Opinion

Saeed Naqvi | Does a liberal' Muslim leader have a future in India's...

The enigma of Asaduddin Owaisi acquires new salience after his success in Bihar

27 Nov 2020 4:32 AM IST

Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay. (Photo: AP)

Opinion

Claude Arpi | Use Tibet links, counter China in the Himalayas

Though the Indian government never wanted to be politically involved with Tibet, the age-old ties have remained alive

26 Nov 2020 5:20 AM IST

All the hopes pinned on Prime Minister Modis AtmaNirbhar Bharat and Make in India drives would have been eviscerated had we been in RCEP.

Opinion

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | RECP: Why India must be firm on staying out

What India has done about the RCEP is perfect. It couldn't be otherwise

26 Nov 2020 4:29 AM IST

Argentine legend Diego Maradona gestures during his first training session as coach of Mexican football club Dorados, at the Banorte stadium in Culiacan, Sinaloa State, Mexico. - Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona passed away on November 25, 2020. (AFP)

Sports

Football legend Diego Maradona dies of heart attack

The Argentine World Cup winning captain had undergone brain surgery earlier this month

25 Nov 2020 10:46 PM IST

Internet services, landline and mobile phones were snapped across Jammu and Kashmir on August 4, a day before the Centres announcement to scrap the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and divide it into two union territories. (Representational image)

Business

Landline to mobile calls get zero prefix

DoT accepts Trai's recommendation; Decision will come into force from January 1

25 Nov 2020 10:40 AM IST

The United States plans to distribute 6.4 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the first week after it is cleared for emergency use. (Representational Image:AFP)

World

US to distribute 6.4 million Covid vaccine doses in first tranche

The figure includes another vaccine developed by Moderna and the NIH, which announced some preliminary efficacy results...

25 Nov 2020 10:19 AM IST

India

IMA to go to court against CCIM order on Ayush doctors performing...

The cost cutting measures, which were seen wrongly as an advantage by some, are criticised as faulty and improper...

25 Nov 2020 5:36 AM IST

Union minister Nitin Gadkari. (PTI Photo)

Opinion

Dilip Cherian | Who's afraid of Nitin Gadkari?

It is indeed rare for the political executive to haul up the bureaucracy in the manner that Gadkari did

25 Nov 2020 2:02 AM IST

$US President Donald Trump delivers an update on \Operation Warp Speed\ in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP)$ Opinion

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | If Trumpism' outlives Trump, America loses

During the last four years the United States suffered what former President Barack Obama calls 'truth decay'

25 Nov 2020 1:59 AM IST