An almost unending spell of thunderclaps interspersed with growls and rumbles and accompanied by flashes of lightning jolted many Kolkatans out of their sleep early on Monday morning. Bengal is prone...

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a draft of the first volume of its Sixth Assessment Report. This report focuses exclusively on the latest scientific re...

The West has got virtually all its own people out of Afghanistan. Very many of their Afghan workers and supporters (including those holding citizenship of Western countries) are left facing calamity, ...

Senior officials of India and the US took stock of progress in bilateral cooperation in areas of defence, public health and economy, besides reviewing preparations for the next edition of 2+2 minister...

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Sri Lanka is tapping Japan. Nepal has asked Denmark. Bangladesh has appealed to its diaspora in the US. South Asian countries are looking to the rest of the world to jump-start inoculation campaigns ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has, ironically, thrown into sharp focus the plight of a largely invisible constituency — India’s migrant population. After the Centre hastily imposed a poorly-planne...

The horror of the jihadi ambush that killed dozens of CRPF soldiers and its aftermath, the attacks on Kashmiri students in India, is a clarifying moment.It demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt that Pa...

The first phase of the Indian elections will begin today. These elections and their results are being viewed with a lot of interest in Pakistan. Earlier this week, the prime minister, Imran Khan, told...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Saturday announced that fencing of the international border between the two countries would be completed at the earliest wh...