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TRS President and Telangana CM K Chandrashekar with VCK party founder Thol. Thirumavalavan and JDS leader H. D. Kumaraswamy during changing of the name of the party from Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | BRS is a start, with big potential

KCR, no stranger to taking risks and deploying disruptions to make quick, big gains, believes he must take the nation's...

7 Oct 2022 12:15 AM IST

Baramulla: Union Home Minister Amit Shah meets people during a public rally, at the Showkat Ali Stadium in Baramulla district of north Kashmir, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Elections the real issue in J&K, Centre can't avoid it

Amit Shah sought to dismiss Gupkar Alliance, made up of all political parties in the state barring the BJP, saying they...

7 Oct 2022 12:10 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Withdrawal of incentives irks IAS, IPS officers...

Not surprisingly, the affected babus are unhappy with the order, describing it as insensitive and abrupt

7 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

This year, Durga Puja, the biggest festival for Bengalis, was celebrated with more aplomb than ever since Unesco included Durga Puja in Kolkata in its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity last year. (Photo: PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Festivals need to celebrate inclusion, not...

In a fractured and increasingly polarised society, festivals offer a fantastic opportunity to be inclusive in its...

7 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

This frame grab from video footage by Thai PBS made available via AFPTV and taken on October 6, 2022 shows medical staff carrying a stretcher out of an ambulance in the northern Thai province of Nong Bua Lam Phu, where a former policeman shot dead at least 30 people in a nursery. - A former police officer stormed a nursery in Thailand on October 6, shooting dead at least 30 people, most of them children, before killing himself and his family. (Photo: AFP)

Thai PM orders probe into 'horrifying' nursery mass shooting

PM Prayut Chan-O-Cha ordered an urgent probe after a former police officer shot dead more than 30 people

6 Oct 2022 6:11 PM IST

From winners who are famous to those who have been forgotten and western domination in Nobel, a list of the must knows of the Nobel prize (Representational Image)

French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature

Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announced the winner Thursday in Stockholm, Sweden

6 Oct 2022 5:25 PM IST

New Conservative Party leader and Britains Prime Minister-elect Liz Truss delivers a speech at an event to announce the winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest in central London on September 5, 2022. - Truss is the UKs third female prime minister following Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher. The 47-year-old has consistently enjoyed overwhelming support over 42-year-old Sunak in polling of the estimated 200,000 Tory members who were eligible to vote.

AA Edit | Truss' U-turn exposes failures

The Cabinet top brass tried to pass off the proposed cut as a distraction and rounding error .

5 Oct 2022 12:10 AM IST

There are reports of a minimum of 20 to 25 per cent price rise in domestic flights between most major Indian cities till Diwali season. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | As airfares soar, let markets fix prices

Everyone wants transformational infra to be built and development to be rapid, as long as they directly don't have to...

5 Oct 2022 12:10 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his September 30 address, threatened Nato with, among other things, his nuclear arsenal. (Photo: AP)

K.C. Singh | Russia, Iran, China, Brazil: Realpolitik in global churn

During this testy phase of international relations, all nations, big or small or intermediate, are practising...

5 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

A file picture of the Mundra International Container Port. (Photo: PTI)

Anti-dumping probe into laser machines

The move comes after receiving a complaint made by a domestic player Sahajanand Laser Technology

4 Oct 2022 10:00 AM IST

Fintech lenders are able to venture into segments previously deemed high-risk by financial institutions. (Photo: Pixabay)

PayU calls off $4.7 bn deal to buy BillDesk

If the deal was closed, the duo would have become one of the largest online payment providers globally

4 Oct 2022 9:57 AM IST

The first advance estimate of FY20 gross value added (GVA) growth is estimated at 4.9 per cent against 6.6 per cent in 2018-19. The manufacturing sector is expected to grow at 2 per cent in 2019-20 compared to 6.9 per cent in the previous year.

Manufacturing PMI eases to 55.1 in September

Economists in a Reuters poll had predicted that the PMI would be at 55.8

4 Oct 2022 9:53 AM IST