Delhi HC turns down FIR against doctor in PC & PNDT act

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court recently...

Senior Advocate Sanjay Jain on his collection of rare books

In today’s fast paced world, not everyone...

As an Aussie fan, I feared Ashwin

I am generally not a parochial cricket...

THE SUNDAY GUARDIAN

Asian Century must not falter

As Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien-Loong has written in Foreign Affairs, “In recent years, people have been saying that the next century will be...

Covid-19 patients struggle for tests, hospital beds

It is almost impossible for a common man to get himself tested and get a bed in private hospitals designated as Covid-19 hospitals.   New Delhi:...

Let food be thy medicine, as culinary medicine trends

A novel concept of culinary medicine is seen to be one of the emerging trends to help people deal with lifestyle diseases by switching...

Future of India-US defence ties

India for the longest time viewed its ‘eclectic’ defence purchases as a smart move. The standard explanation, we were ‘multi-sourcing’, was relevant when India...

Scindia confident of BJP sweep in MP bypolls

New Delhi: By-elections in 24 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh are going to be the first test of political strength for Jyotiraditya Scindia after...

BJP rejigs Bengal unit, brings seasoned leaders

Mukul Roy hasn’t found any place either in the state panel or at the national level.   New Delhi: With an eye on the May 2021...

Centre should put money in people’s hands: Gehlot

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot says the Centre’s loan-based schemes are of no help.   New Delhi: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has claimed that Rajasthan is...

China’s vulnerabilities are increasing

Exposed on the Taiwan issue, China sent its fleet to the Taiwan straits. But the move was meant primarily for its domestic audience.   As if...

Protests flare around U.s. over Minneapolis killing

George Floyd, a black man died after being pinned down by the neck by a white policeman. MINNEAPOLIS: Protests flared late into the night in...

India’s rigged stock market crash benefits China and Chidambaram

China does not like a strong PM Modi and wants his popularity to diminish among the masses. Border skirmishes and market sell-offs are just...

Malda: A spectacle of desolation in West Bengal

A drive through the stellar highways, and then through the rugged, barren, rough and dusty tracks of Bengal, leads one to Malda, the city...

Urdu literature will badly miss legendary satirist Mujtaba Hussain

Mujtaba Hussain, a legendary Urdu satire and humour writer, passed away at his residence in Sun City, Hyderabad, on Wednesday, 27 May 2020, aged...

‘I am eagerly waiting for Helmet’

Aparshakti Khurrana is an actor-cum-singer who is spending his lockdown time in brushing up his culinary expertise. With a song released and a film...

Parsing Pakistan’s green books 2020

Pakistan’s espousal of Islamic “nationhood” is predicated on cultural distinction, calculations of convenience and the politics of difference. London: ‘I know, you won’t believe it”,...

England easing lockdown too soon, scientific advisers warn

LONDON: England risks losing control of the coronavirus pandemic again because it is starting to lift its lockdown without a fully operational track and...

China’s Xi risks new Cold War, last Hong Kong governor says

London: Chinese President Xi Jinping is so nervous about the position of the Communist Party that he is risking a new Cold War and...

Trump cutting US ties with WHO over virus

The United States will end its relationship with the World Health Organization over the body’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, US President Donald Trump...

Government must pay its bills

It was the WHO that asked countries to immediately impose an indefinite lockdown so as “to save lives”. No conscientious leader could have ignored...

Government must pay its bills

It was the WHO that asked countries to immediately impose an indefinite lockdown so as “to save lives”. No conscientious leader could have ignored...

Government must pay its bills

It was the WHO that asked countries to immediately impose an indefinite lockdown so as “to save lives”. No conscientious leader could have ignored...

The Delhi High Court was right: Tenants must pay while locked down

Tenants, landlords are presently negotiating solutions to the lockdown and that is how it should be, but the outcome of their negotiation must depend...

Military has no Martyrs  

Every time we lose a soldier in action, there is widespread and impassioned display of emotion by the citizenry which is quite heartening. Then...

Deconstructing the Indian economy: A long walk to redemption

The pall of gloom on our economy is deftly camouflaged by a stubborn stock market that refuses to reveal the catastrophe around us. The...

Corona lockdown brings out Congress factionalism

Party leaders are divided on targeting the government over its response to the pandemic. New Delhi: In what reminds one of Congress being on a...

Rs 20 lakh cr stimulus package: Devil is in the details

Some initiatives seem unlikely to spur growth, while others that are promising, demand additional details for effective implementation.   With rapidly increasing Covid cases ravaging parts...

Annexures, clarifications followed first lockdown fiat

Release of multiple clarifications led to widespread confusion and criticism. New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) declared the specifications of the first all-India...

Protect our families, demand health workers

New Delhi: Covid-19 has infected many health workers in Delhi and other parts of the country in three months. Doctors and other medical staff...

China’s top official accepts criticism of  Coronavirus response

BEIJING: China’s top disease control official said on Saturday that public criticism over the initial coronavirus outbreak was understandable, but defended Beijing’s response to...

‘China could set up Hong Kong intelligence agency under new law’

Democracy activists say the national security legislation is evidence of Beijing’s encroachment on freedoms guaranteed to Hong Kong.   Beijing: China’s new national security legislation may be...

Social murder in a welfare state

The abysmal implementation of welfare legislations reveals the welfare state has let down the worker by not providing any safety net or security. Most...

Facebook’s investment in Jio: Another perspective

Reliance Industries has traditionally dominated the market by undercutting prices of their competitors. To avoid a repeat of  Reliance Jio in telecom sector, the...

Over 140 clinical trials to cure Covid in advanced stage

The clinical trial for Favipiravir is being undertaken in India.   Scientists and health experts across the world are working day and night to find a...

Priyanka gets her political calculations wrong, once again

New Delhi: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has once again got her political calculations wrong, and again because of her personal secretary Sandeep...

Time to stay united

Ever since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in India, a remarkable reticence had dominated the political space of this country. Various shades of...

Time to stay united

Ever since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in India, a remarkable reticence had dominated the political space of this country. Various shades of...

Time to stay united

Ever since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in India, a remarkable reticence had dominated the political space of this country. Various shades of...

‘PM Modi’s win over corona will give BJP an edge in Bihar battle’

New Delhi: In what can be attributed to the ongoing corona crisis, the much-awaited Cabinet expansion of the Narendra Modi government is set to...

Game of Avatars: Why am I not represented, Facebook?

Facebook has been paying attention to an underexplored opportunity in India for expansion of its user base.  As amidst the pandemic and economic recession...

To live with the deadly virus

Now that the coronavirus is a pandemic that isn’t going to die out soon, and after a lockdown of more than six weeks, the...

Domestic violence: Hidden pandemic is finally out of the closet

“Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort,” reads a line from Emma by Jane Austen. Governments around the world have...

Bishnupur: A magnolious bequest in West Bengal

Located approximately at a distance of about thirty-five kilometres from the district headquarters of Bankura, Bishnupur has a legendary historical significance, going back pages...

HOW Gehlot emerged as the real warrior against corona

He is working relentlessly round-the-clock to give one last push to the menace. New Delhi: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has tremendous prowess to tackle...

Kohli does not believe in individual glory: Chahal

India and Royal Challengers Bangalore leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal believes that the best thing about India skipper Virat Kohli is that he loves to take...

With the resumption of Bundesliga, all eyes focus on Germany

DORTMUND: The gaze of the sporting world will fall on Germany this weekend as the Bundlesliga becomes the first major soccer league to emerge...

India Open to play tests in adelaide

India captain Virat Kohli and his team will be open to playing the entire test series against Australia in a ‘bio-secure’ Adelaide Oval if...

China threatens retaliation over huwei’s ‘suppression’

‘Beijing was ready to target Apple, Qualcomm, Cisco and Boeing in retaliation.’ China on Saturday hit back at the Donald Trump government for announcing new...

Supreme Court order in Gujarat case can cleanse education sector

Under this judgement, deemed universities will now be covered under the PCA. It has also widened the scope of the definition of public servant. It...

Justice Ajay Tripathi: A great loss to the justice delivery system

Justice Tripathi didn’t come from a family of lawyers and rose to his high position by dint of his own hard work and merit. “I...

Covid fighting strategy in place, India prepared to lift lockdown

‘The strategy was simple: to use the lockdown to ramp up infrastructure to fight the virus’.   New Delhi: Government of India, in coordination with various...

Majdoor hai, isliye majboor hai: Migrant workers leave Mumbai packed in trucks

Mumbai: This is the personal account of this reporter who had stepped out to check the condition of the migrant labourers who were struggling...

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