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Chinas research and survey vessel, the Yuan Wang 5, arrives at Hambantota port on August 16, 2022. - A Chinese research vessel entered Sri Lankas Chinese-run southern port of Hambantota on August 16 despite concerns from India and the US about its activities. (Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)

Lanka needs support, not 'unwanted pressure', says India slamming...

India had rejected China's 'insinuations' that New Delhi pressured Colombo against the visit by a Chinese research...

28 Aug 2022 10:36 AM IST

Crane vehicles move towards the Supertech twin towers, ahead of the demolition with explosives in compliance with a Supreme Court order, in Noida, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Over 3,700 kg explosives will be used to raze down the nearly 100-metre-tall structures on Aug. 28. (PTI)

All set for Noida twin towers demolition, adjacent buildings evacuated

The towers -- both taller than Delhi's iconic Qutub Minar -- will be brought down in less than 15 seconds by waterfall...

28 Aug 2022 10:07 AM IST

harkhand CM Hemant Soren with UPA MLAs leaves from the CM residence in a bus after a meeting, amid speculation of his disqualification, in Ranchi, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Hemant Soren ring-fences MLAs as BJP lurks

Jharkhand chief minister and 44 MLAs leave for picnic amid political crisis

28 Aug 2022 8:59 AM IST

Salman Rushdie (AP file photo)

Saeed Naqvi | The Satanic' furies: A look at the genesis

Rushdie and The Satanic Verses will encroach on the world's attention now and then indefinitely for political football

28 Aug 2022 12:15 AM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Folks that make me highly judgmental'

The parents, now, are the ones who need help. They need to be cut off. They need to remember times when they were young...

28 Aug 2022 12:10 AM IST

A man offers sweets to people convicted for rape and murder in the Bilkis Bano case of the 2002 post-Godhra riots, after they came out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, in Godhra on August 15. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Bilkis Bano and the fault in our criminal justice...

Even the Centre's recent remission policy for release of prisoners on Independence Day excluded rape convicts from its...

28 Aug 2022 12:09 AM IST

Cover page of Sojourn. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | A Bengali professor unscrambles the riddle of Berlin

A conversation with a friend who has returned from abroad and recounts his experiences

28 Aug 2022 12:03 AM IST

Cover page of The Problem with Everything: My Journey through the New Culture Wars. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | Welcome to the political compass' third dimension

Meghan Daum is crisp, elegant and wryly humorous, and does not dump her traumas on the reader.

28 Aug 2022 12:02 AM IST

Cover page of Dadamoni: The Life and Times of Ashok Kumar. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | First among the equals of Old Bollywood's heroes

Despite its hagiographic tone, Ashok Kumar's biography is genuinely informative, perceptive and loving.

28 Aug 2022 12:00 AM IST

Actor-turned-politician Sonali Phogat (PTI)

Sonali Phogat case: Goa police detain suspected drug peddler,...

Sagwan and Singh allegedly mixed some 'obnoxious substance' in water and forced Phogat to drink it while partying at...

27 Aug 2022 1:31 PM IST

Russian army soldiers march during an action in support for the soldiers involved in the military operation in Ukraine, at the Mamaev Kurgan, a World War II memorial in Volgograd, Russia, July 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexandr Kulikov, file)

Putin orders Russian military to beef up forces by 137,000

The presidential decree will boost the overall number of Russian military personnel to 2,039,758, including 1,150,628...

27 Aug 2022 1:02 PM IST

Kharge said that India has a total of 366 PSUs employing 9.2 lakh regular employees and 4.98 lakh contractual employees. The Railways employs 12.53 lakh persons and the department of posts 4.18 lakh employees. If all these are sold off, what will be the future of these employees and their families, he asked. DC file photo

We will force Rahul Gandhi to become Congress chief: Mallikarjun...

Kharge also referred to the party's upcoming 'Bharat Jodo Yatra', and said Rahul Gandhi is needed for 'Jodo Bharat"

27 Aug 2022 12:32 PM IST