As a cricketer, Imran Khan usually chose aggression over defence — and it often worked for him. Now in his fourth year as prime minister of Pakistan, he appears to have decided on a much more nu...

Winter in India has become synonymous with literary festivals. These events are mutually beneficial for authors, publishers and their audience. Readers get to interact with their beloved authors and, ...

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...