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Prime Minister Narendra Modi emplanes for Lumbini, the birth place of Lord Buddha. (PTI Photo)

Packed Quad summit for PM Modi, 23 meetings in 40 hours lined up

Situations arising because of the ongoing conflict and food crisis are some of the important issues that will be on the...

22 May 2022 2:36 AM IST

Cover image of the book The Black Magic Women: Stories from Northeast India by Moushumi Kandali. (By Arrangement)

Book excerpt | This in-between space of destruction and desire

Excerpted from 'The Black Magic Women: Stories from Northeast India', short story titled 'Mayur Vihar'

22 May 2022 2:06 AM IST

People get their vehicles filled with fuel after the central government reduced excise duty on petrol by Rs 8 per litre and diesel by Rs 6 per litre, in Patna, Saturday, May 21, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Centre cuts excise duty on petrol by Rs.8 and diesel by Rs.6

Petrol price down Rs 9.5/l, diesel Rs 7 after Centre cuts excise duty

22 May 2022 2:00 AM IST

Cover image of the book Rahul Bajaj: An Extraordinary Life By Gita Piramal. (By Arrangement)

Book Review | History of Indian nation-building from the standpoint of...

There are three ways to understand the country's journey textbooks, history books and biographies of well-known...

22 May 2022 1:20 AM IST

Cover image of Anti-Clock by V.J. James, translated by Ministhy S. (By Arrangement)

Book Review | Of death's grim reapers, their wishes, hurts and...

James' 7th novel, and 2nd to be translated into English, is a deep meditation on time and the chaos that ensues when it...

22 May 2022 1:04 AM IST

The world of the privileged that includes voluntary diet control and excessive exercise. (Representational Image/ Pexels)

Ranjona Banerji | The diet where dreams go to die...

And there's that whole dieting industry ready to 'help' you get your wallet so much thinner

22 May 2022 12:27 AM IST

Russian tanks roll along a street in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Manish Tewari | Putin started Ukraine war, West might just end it

This united Europe like never before much the same way as they had come together to resist Hitler's blitzkrieg 1939...

22 May 2022 12:25 AM IST

A post-mortem examination of the victim confirmed rape and then murder by throttling. (AA file photo)

Anita Anand | Rape within marriage: The grey area over consent

Of the 4,169 women who experienced sexual violence, 82 per cent said the perpetrator was their husband

22 May 2022 12:17 AM IST

Former National Stock Exchange (NSE) CEO and MD Chitra Ramkrishna (PTI)

NSE co-location scam: CBI launches search operation in multiple cities

CBI has filed a chargesheet against former NSE CEO and MD Chitra Ramkrishna and group operating officer Anand...

21 May 2022 1:11 PM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses the Ideas for India conclave in the United Kingdom. (PTI Photo)

Indian democracy is global public good; if that cracks, it will cause...

Rahul said that there are two different designs of governance at play in India, one that stifles voices and the other...

21 May 2022 12:41 PM IST

Ukrainian servicemen sit in a bus after leaving Mariupols besieged Azovstal steel plant, near a penal colony, in Olyonivka, in territory under the government of the Donetsk Peoples Republic, eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo)

In biggest victory yet, Russia claims to capture Mariupol

Mariupol's capture at this point is of mostly symbolic importance, since the city was already effectively under Moscow's...

21 May 2022 11:45 AM IST

As the Sensex and Nifty-50 traded at an all time high on Wednesday before some profit taking, further profit taking could continue on Friday and may well set a reversal after sharp gains in the first half of August. Representational Image. (Twitter)

Market U-turn sees Sensex rising 2.9%

The FM said India's economic growth is likely to be robust at 8.9 per cent in the current financial year

21 May 2022 11:35 AM IST