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Shobhaa De | 2021 was better than 2020! Will 2022 sizzle & crackle?

Europe shuts down, New Year's parties are cancelled across the globe, we in India are less despondent and generally...

25 Dec 2021 2:40 AM IST

Globalisation should mean the timely export of anti-Covid vaccines to countries and could even mean the suspension of patents for these and other medicines from which multinational Western firms make billions of dollars. (AFP file photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | It's exploitation, not compassion: Globalisation II &...

Global compassion is far behind the global instinct to exploit. Will it ever catch up? Inshallah!

25 Dec 2021 2:29 AM IST

Policemen stand guard outside the Golden Temple in Amritsar on December 19, 2021, a day after a man was beaten to death for allegedly trying to commit an act of sacrilege at the holiest shrine of the Sikh faith. (Photo: AFP)

No evidence of sacrilege in Kapurthala, FIR to be amended: Punjab CM

The last rites of the man were performed by the Municipal Corporation after the postmortem

24 Dec 2021 2:49 PM IST

According to last months data from Chinas General Administration of Customs (GAC), the India-China bilateral trade totalled USD 114.263 billion, up 46.4 per cent year-on-year from January to November 2021. (PTI Photo)

2021: An year of record trade amid frozen India-China ties over Ladakh...

Each side currently has around 50,000 to 60,000 troops along the LAC in the mountainous sector

24 Dec 2021 12:23 PM IST

Nalini Sriharan, one of the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, is released from prison on 30-day parole amid tight security for her daughters wedding in Vellore district on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: Nalini Sriharan to be released today

Nalini Sriharan and six other people were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case

24 Dec 2021 12:20 PM IST

The fire also left over 200 others with burn injuries. (Photo: Twitter)

40 people dead after fire breaks out aboard packed ferry in Bangladesh

The fire broke out around 3:00 am (local time) on Friday in the engine room of the Barguna-bound MV Abhijan-10 launch

24 Dec 2021 11:45 AM IST

People wearing face mask as a precaution against coronavirus shop for the Christmas, in Mumbai. (Photo: AP)

India records 122 new cases of Omicron, highest so far; tally stand at...

The 358 Omicron Covid variant cases have been detected across 17 states and union territories so far

24 Dec 2021 10:25 AM IST

Health workers process COVID-19 PCR tests at an outdoor testing site aside the Long Island Sound in Stamford, Connecticut. (Photo: AFP)

Omicron likely to be dominant strain globally in 2022: Singapore...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for the world to pull together to end the COVID-19 pandemic next year

24 Dec 2021 10:09 AM IST

Women attendees listen and cheer during the launch of women-centric initiatives formally inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi during an event held at the parade ground near the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati, in Allahabad. (Photo: AFP)

Allahabad High Court urges Centre to stop political rallies in...

The court also advised to postpone the coming elections by a couple of months

24 Dec 2021 7:50 AM IST

Police inspect the site of an explosion at the District Court complex, in Ludhiana. (Photo: PTI)

One dead, six injured in Ludhiana court blast; CM says anti-national...

Channi termed the alleged sacrilege bids and the Ludhiana blast a 'big conspiracy'

24 Dec 2021 7:48 AM IST

The Covid-19 pandemic which inspired the new normal of work from home also questions an individual-centric world. (DC file photo)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | As bells toll for 2021, an end is also a beginning

At present, for around 37 per cent of jobs in developed countries and 10 per cent in developing countries, working from...

24 Dec 2021 12:43 AM IST

This image provided by Pfizer in October 2021 shows the companys COVID-19 Paxlovid pills. U.S. health regulators on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021 authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus. (Pfizer via AP)

Chandrakant Lahariya | FDA approval of Covid pill a sign of hope for...

The US Food and Drugs Administration approved an oral Covid-19 drug Paxlovid. Molnupiravir, too, received emergency...

24 Dec 2021 12:27 AM IST