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The100-year-old classic ballad about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre is now reaching a global audience. (Photo: Pinterest)

AA Edit | Preserve, don't erase, heritage

It is understood that the Gujarat government is going ahead with a massive plan to 'renovate' the Sabarmati Ashram

3 Sept 2021 2:34 AM IST

Foreign portfolio inves-tors were net buyers of equities worth Rs 348.52 crore. Representational Image. (PTI)

Sensex, Nifty move Higher

The Sensex closed 514 points or 0.90 per cent up at 57,852 while Nifty-50 gained 157.90 points or 0.92 per cent to close

3 Sept 2021 2:12 AM IST

Lancet COVID-19 Commission India Task Force concluded that there is no current evidence that an anticipated the third wave will target children specifically. (PTI file photo)

AA Edit | Feasibility, agility key to successful school return

The threat from the virus may never fully recede, which means that education cannot be held up forever

3 Sept 2021 1:26 AM IST

A Taliban fighter stands on an armoured vehicle with a Taliban flag during a parade along a road to celebrate after the US pulled all its troops out of Afghanistan, in Kandahar on September 1, 2021 following the Talibans military takeover of the country. (Photo:AFP)

India: Want Taliban to keep terror off Afghanistan

India said its primary concern was that Afghan soil should not be used for terror against India

3 Sept 2021 1:24 AM IST

Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul. (Representational Photo:AFP)

Indranil Banerjie | Is fall of Kabul a Humpty Dumpty moment for US?

President Biden's address to the American people suggested a lack of geopolitical sapience

3 Sept 2021 1:18 AM IST

Taliban fighters atop vehicles with Taliban flags parade along a road to celebrate after the US pulled all its troops out of Afghanistan, in Kandahar on September 1, 2021 following the Talibans military takeover of the country. (Photo: AFP)

Taliban set to announce government, Akhundzada to be top leader

Top religious leader Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada to be Afghanistan's supreme authority

3 Sept 2021 1:04 AM IST

The Congress, on the other hand, created a ruckus in the House demanding special commitments from the state government on a special relief package for drought-hit farmers. odishaassembly.nic.in

BJP, Congress create ruckus in Odisha Assembly

The BJP was baying for the blood of law minister Pratap Jena, alleging he was the key conspirator in the Mahanga double...

3 Sept 2021 12:15 AM IST

The Mamata Banerjee government has, meanwhile, assigned 10 senior IPS officers to assist the special investigation team set up on the orders of the Calcutta high court on August 19 to probe the incidents of post-poll violence.

West Bengal post-poll violence: CBI files first chargesheet

A CBI team interrogated the duo in jail recently after getting the court's permission and before submitting the...

3 Sept 2021 12:13 AM IST

Amazon has updated the Alexa app on iOS so that users can access the voice assistant right from their home screens via a new widget. (Photo: PTI)

Amazon's new feature will make Alexa respond louder when it's noisy

The feature is currently available to US customers, and Amazon says that a user can activate it by saying Alexa, turn on...

2 Sept 2021 7:26 PM IST

Bharat Biotechs vaccine candidate -Covaxin- has been developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) - National Institute of Virology (NIV) using inactivated Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.(Representational Image:AFP)

WHO warns new Mu variant of COVID-19 could be more vaccine-resistant

The new 'variant of interest' is being closely monitored, the UN health agency said

2 Sept 2021 2:55 PM IST

A health worker administers the vaccine for COVID-19 in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)

Covid vaccines effective at reducing severe illness, hospitalisation:...

Researchers also found that the odds of experiencing long COVID were reduced to half for people who received two...

2 Sept 2021 12:27 PM IST

Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard on a road leading to the house of top separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani in Srinagar. (AP)

Near-total communications blackout in Kashmir following death of Syed...

The top separatist leader buried quietly at a cemetery located near his residence in Srinagar's Hyderpora area at around...

2 Sept 2021 11:49 AM IST