What is about people that makes them believe their children are of fascinating interest to others. Went for a dinner the other night and i am sitting next to this very pleasant stranger and deciding that maybe this is an evening for charm in high gear and some crisp conversation when this little child runs in and then out again and in again and out again and then reverses the trend.

Aam Aadmi Party’s decision to not contest any of the four upcoming assembly elections in Maharashtra, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana and Jharkhand is the wisest choice the party has made in the last six months.

Precious time of the nation and its leadership is being wasted on a non-issue, namely Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)’s new Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT).

After having raised the issue of whether the clubby and secretive collegiums system actually preserves the independence of the judiciary former Supreme Court judge, Justice Markandey Katju, has now trained his guns on India’s antiquated contempt of court law. He has made the valid point, in this newspaper, that judicial supremacy cannot be based on the law of kings in a democracy.

The cancer of corruption eating into India’s medical sector is no secret. Reports of patients being prescribed unnecessary tests by unscrupulous doctors in league with labs abound.

TIMES VIEW Europe had to react to MH17 downing Chandan Nandy Moscow did not stop after annexing Crimea but continues to foment insurgency in Ukraine.

Many Indians still go “awww” when a US secretary of state endorses — in Hindi — PM Narendra Modi’s alliterative catchphrases, in this case, “sabka saath, sabka vikas”.

Politics isn’t a career choice in itself, as far as parliament’s website is concerned.

Almost 15 years ago Jeff Bezos, founder of US online retail firm Amazon, said e-commerce was going to change the way the world shops.

“Let it go,” “Ignore them,” “It is normal”, “You should have been more careful,” and of course the “boys will be boys” narrative. These are just some of the statements that the society has told...

While appreciating where we stand today thanks to the efforts of the government in We-Shall-Do-It-Alone mode, I now feel that time has come for Narendrabhai to invite the rest of the India to join hands...

The education scenario has been continuously evolving from the Gurukul days – the aim- address the dynamics of the changing society. Advancements, technology, and exposure have resulted in giving society more and more brains. The...

In fact, it is only during critical hours that test the will power of a leadership. And a true leader always emerges successful against all odds due to his unwavering self-confidence, faith, honesty, determination and...

Amidst ever-extending lockdown and also the non-relenting number of daily discoveries of positive cases, a vicious cloud of confusion has covered humanities collective mindset! Suddenly things have changed for each one of us, thankfully not...

By Andrew Cohen Currently, just about everyone is aware that we’re in what many consider to be a global crisis. At this particular moment, we’re most aware of the global Covid-19 pandemic, but this is...

Locking up healthy people in their homes and putting wholesale populations under house arrest is perverse. Coronavirus panic merchants and fearmongers have wrecked entire economies based on flimsy evidence and with little public scrutiny. Lockdowns...

What happens when the leader of a paranoid regime armed with nuclear weapons disappears from sight for days? It gets a lot of attention. That is exactly what appears to have happened in the case...

As lockdown eased and alcohol vends opened up, long denied tipplers across India lined up to get their fix. But amid all the serpentine lines, one picture drew special mention: a queue of women in...

India reforms only in a crisis, has been the succour economists have proffered in gloomy Covid times. The Uttar Pradesh government has done well to set the ball rolling by approving an ordinance exempting businesses...

Did you know why the Indian lockdown is creating so much human suffering, even though we did relatively well on the Covid case numbers? Why is ours the only major country in the world where...

Utho! meri dunya ke ghareebo ko jaga do/ kakh-e-umra ke dar-o-diwar hila do (Rise, wake the poor of my world from slumber/ Shake the walls and windows of the mansions of the prosperous) —Allama Iqbal...

The Paris-based NGO, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), has come out with its latest Press Freedom Index to judge the degree of freedom available to journalists in different countries of the world. This index places India,...

Even if you are living under a rock somewhere, you have heard of Covid-19, or Corona, as it is being called fondly. Those ubiquitous mediums of information, internet and smartphones, have ensured that we get...

As an unexpected outcome of the coronavirus lockdown, Ayatollah-ruled Iran has partly lifted its veil of strict orthodoxy which inhibits social interaction between the genders by allowing the reopening of Tehran’s one and only drive-in...

I am eating humble pie today when online is the new offline. A few months back when my daughter and husband bought me a smartphone I thoughtlessly declared the old one equally good. My daughter...

Its been many, many years since I was told the story of two chieftains going on war campaigns. One wins all the time. Unlike the other, he doesn’t simply order his soldiers to wage war while...

The Pakistan Army’s “Green Book 2020” has recently been released by the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. The Green Book is a research journal of the Pakistan Army and could, therefore, be taken to reflect the...

The terrifying state that we currently are living in has left everyone perplexed and paranoid giving Covid19 the stature of ‘the crisis of the century’. The rise of infections in our country is now faster...

‘I am done playing rock, paper, scissors with Dee; sick of cooking and cleaning. The office is where I belong, man”, ranted my niece, for the Nth time.  It turned out that what she really...

US deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 75,000 deaths on Thursday, after the White House shelved a step-by-step guide prepared by health officials to help states safely reopen. Deaths in the United States, the epicenter of the global pandemic, have averaged 2,000 a day since mid-April despite efforts to slow the outbreak.

Tesla Inc. suspended production at its plant on the outskirts of Shanghai, according to people familiar with the matter, bringing to a halt all of the company’s vehicle manufacturing globally.

Hydrogen has long been touted as a clean alternative to fossil fuels. Now, as major economies prepare green investments to kickstart growth, advocates spy a golden chance to drag the niche energy into the mainstream of a post-pandemic world.

Since reporting its first cases in mid-February, the Islamic republic has struggled to contain the spread of the virus that causes the Covid-19 disease. Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 55 new virus fatalities in the past 24 hours took the overall death toll in the health crisis to 6,541.

An estimated 190,000 people in Africa could die of Covid-19 in the first year of the pandemic and the disease could “smolder” across the continent for years, the World Health Organisation has warned.

President Vladimir Putin will give a 20-minute speech at a war memorial beside the Kremlin walls, an unprecedented move, instead of presiding over a traditional parade featuring thousands of troops and military equipment.

The report by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency on Saturday came a day after it reported Kim sent a personal message to Chinese President Xi Jinping to praise what he described as China's success in getting its Covid-19 epidemic under control.

The coronavirus pandemic forced carmakers to close virtually every auto plant in North America, sending production plummeting to a level last seen at the end of World War II.

"I wish BCCI plans something with ICC or the franchises that Indian players get to play foreign leagues. At least allow us to play in two different foreign leagues," Raina told Pathan during Instagram Live session. On the other hand, Pathan said that the BCCI should at least allow those players to play in foreign T20 leagues who are not on the radar to play international matches and are at least 30 years old.

Aarogya Setu, the government's mobile application developed to track Covid-19 patients, has emerged as a powerful tool to curb the spread of the virus as it helped alert authorities about more than 650 hotspots across the country and over 300 "emerging hotspots" which could have been missed otherwise, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said.

India’s Covid-19 count is nearing 60,000 mark with 59,662 cases after new cases topped 3,000 for the third consecutive day. The overall death toll too was just short of 2,000 at 1,981. Overall, 3,294 fresh cases were reported from states in past 24-hour. Stay here for all live updates