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Rishi Sunak, front-runner to the British PM post (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Are days already numbered for Hedgie Sunak? Third...

Already the unions, railway workers and medical staff, including 80,000 nurses, have declared that they will go on...

5 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

K.C. Singh | As world is realigning, India sits on the fence

The world has entered a phase of partial or floating alignments, popularly described as a multi-polar world

1 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Britains Finance minister Rishi Sunak said that hundreds of thousands of people have already lost their jobs, and sadly in the coming months many more will. (AP Photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | Food or warmth? Tough choices on Hedgie's watch as...

The inflation crisis is called the cost-of-living (CoL) crisis as the price of everything is going up by leaps and...

24 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

A train burns after the aspirants set it on fire during their protest over alleged erroneous results of Railway Recruitment Boards-Non Technical Popular Categories (RRB-NTPC) exams, at Gaya Junction railway station. (Photo:PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Don't let hopes fall: Make jobs Budget's top...

In the pandemic's third year, jobs must be the top priority. It's not enough to depend on any trickle-down theory

28 Jan 2022 11:05 PM IST

Students stand in a queue as they wait to enter a classroom after schools re-opened for 1st to 12th standard students, in Thane. (Photo: PTI)

Centre likely to issue advisory on reopening schools soon: Sources

Ever since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools have remained by and large shut

28 Jan 2022 8:26 AM IST

In this file photo taken on October 1, 2019, Chinese troops march during a military parade in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (Representational photo:AFP)

K.C. Singh | How absolutist policy can make a nation less secure

Taking the cue from Jia, one needs to ask whether viewing the region through the prism of 'absolute national security'...

24 Jan 2022 11:47 PM IST

Medical staff members tend to a Covid-19 patient at the intensive care unit of Cremona hospital, in Cremona, northern Italy. (Photo: AFP)

COVID-19 cases rose by more than 50%, deaths stable, says WHO

Last week, WHO noted a pandemic record high of 9.5 million new infections in a single week

12 Jan 2022 4:40 PM IST

Shashi Warrier | How I made peace with my scooter and my life

I tried lots of popular scooters, and they all seemed the same: small and light and cramped, with my knees hitting the...

2 Jan 2022 2:25 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | New UK crisis: Chicken tikka masala at risk as prices...

Of course, one should be concerned about the thousands of jobs that will be lost if a sizeable number of restaurants...

18 Feb 2022 11:40 PM IST

The personnel of the CISF have been tasked to enforce the mask rules at all airports. (Representational image: PTI)

Passenger can be deboarded from aircraft for not wearing a mask

Aviation regulator issues directions for compliance on mask rule

9 Jun 2022 7:20 AM IST

A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Covid-19 preventive vaccine to a student in the age group of 12 to 14 years, at a vaccination centre, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Chandrakant Lahariya | At 75, time to focus on a healthier India@100

While health has got a lot of attention in the pandemic period there is a need for health to continue to be a sustained...

16 Aug 2022 12:15 AM IST

Every year, an estimated 26 lakh people (one in every four deaths that happens in the country) die due to cardio-vascular diseases. (Representational Image)

Chandrakant Lahariya | Some heart attacks can be prevented with a few...

As we grow old, with every passing year in life, the accumulation of fat in the arteries of the heart reduces the blood...

29 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST