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Ayman al-Zawahiri. (AP)

AA Edit | 9/11 brain slain, but war against terror to go on

While the intelligence coup of killing Laden came in the time of Obama, it's Biden's turn to exult in elimination of a...

3 Aug 2022 9:48 AM IST

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, center, walks with Taiwans Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, left, as she arrives in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. Pelosi arrived in Taiwan despite threats from Beijing of serious consequences (AP)

Nancy Pelosi lands in Taiwan, defying China threats

Pelosi, second in line to the presidency, is the highest-profile elected US official to visit Taiwan in 25 years

3 Aug 2022 8:27 AM IST

Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) members stage a protest outside the office of National Herald newspaper amid a raid by Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials as part of an ongoing money laundering probe, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. (PTI Photo)

ED raids office of National Herald as Congress protests

The Opposition party condemned it as vendetta politics, while the BJP said the law would take its own course

3 Aug 2022 7:12 AM IST

Ayman al-Zawahiri. (AP)

Al-Qaeda chief Zawahiri killed in US drone strike in Kabul

The 71-year-old Egyptian surgeon, on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list, had a USD 25 million bounty on his head

3 Aug 2022 6:56 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday put the Tiranga, the Tricolour, as the display picture on his social media accounts. (Photo: PTI Photo)

PM Modi uses Tiranga as profile picture, urges all to follow suit

The BJP is planning a host of activities ahead of Independence day

3 Aug 2022 6:51 AM IST

Israeli ruthlessness was most evident in recent times by its retaliation on the Gaza Strip, horrific its ferocity and far exceeding any limits of justifiable and even acceptable retribution (Representational Image/AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | Why State of Israel has lost its heroic sheen

Israel's heroic burnish is now dulled after the emergence of Israel as the pre-eminent and most ruthless power in the...

2 Aug 2022 11:50 PM IST

Droupadi Murmu, who is set to be the first tribal woman President of India, in New Delhi, Thursday, July 21, 2022. (PTI)

Anita Anand | What Droupadi as President will mean for tribals? Not...

Are such appointments of women and individuals from the minorities just tokenism?

2 Aug 2022 11:47 PM IST

Hemant Soren writes to Pokhriyal, seeks postponement of NEET, JEE exams. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Beyond Cong MLAs' arrest: Political games in J'khand?

For starters, the arrest of three Congress MLAs belonging to Jharkhand in West Bengal is all wrong but not for moral...

2 Aug 2022 9:00 AM IST

First batch of five Rafale fighter aircraft fly out from France to India. PTI photo

AA Edit | High time to phase out MiG-21s

The IAF may have asked for the MiG-21 jets to be replaced in the 1980s but is still in the process of finding a modern...

2 Aug 2022 8:58 AM IST

Members in the Lok Sabha during Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (Sansad TV/PTI Photo)

Deadlock ends in Parliament as Chair revokes MPs' suspension

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said that such protests lower the dignity of the House and must not be repeated

2 Aug 2022 7:24 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Despite harsh laws, India can't become a police state

Real question is whether the impulse of State is to move towards greater liberty for individuals or greater restrictions...

2 Aug 2022 7:20 AM IST

US President Joe Biden (AP)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Biden in Mideast: Why old conflicts can't be...

The war in Ukraine has reinvigorated the importance of the Middle East and the inevitability of the US-Israel special...

2 Aug 2022 7:09 AM IST