A source said: “This will be followed up by a note verbale from our permanent mission in Geneva. They will also take it up with the UN office in Geneva.” According to the Committee for th...

Happy solitude Sir — Humans are said to be social animals. Scientific evidence shows that this is an evolutionary response from the time when Homo sapiens were still living in caves. Unsurprisi...

Silence is golden. This seems to be the driving notion behind the Indian government’s various strategies to ensure the end of all criticism. It is comparatively easy to silence dissidents and cr...

The ministry of civil aviation has removed the curbs on the number of flights that can be operated between India and Ukraine under the bilateral air bubble arrangement. India has advised its citizens ...

There must be a line separating the proverbial Church from the State. Yet, in the last few years, democratic India has witnessed the conflation of these two entities. Religion — religious polari...

California-based cyber security firm Sentinel Labs has found that two hacking entities — at least one of which “aligns sharply with Indian state interests” — spied on Delhi-bas...

  The Centre has placed a purchase order with Biological E for five crore doses of Covid vaccine Corbevax each costing Rs 145 excluding taxes, official sources said on Saturday. The government ...

Treasured heirloom The Repair Shop is a programme on BBC that restores family heirlooms. It has done just that with a painting of the Jain preacher, Rishabhadeva. The artwork had belonged to Mukta Sh...

The Union health ministry on Thursday termed as ill-informed, baseless and misleading the media reports claiming that beneficiaries are being registered as double vaccinated without receiving both Cov...

The budget includes plans for record government borrowing of some Rs 15 trillion rupees, up from Rs 12 trillion in the current year. There will also be the issue of sovereign green bonds to finance pu...