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2 years | 192 journalists killed

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Wars have seldom been fought with the solitary force of weapons. Words, a symbolic expression denoting effective communication with the masses, have often remained the downplayed... Read More


Cleaner, but Costlier

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Issues of climate change and global warming have found a way into international trade, with the EU and UK taking a lead in announcing the imposition of carbon taxes on imports, u... Read More


Dethroning the US$

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- China is working hard to make the Renminbi (RMB) a widely used currency worldwide and reduce the US dollar's role in global trade. These efforts are having a significant effect o... Read More


89 Seconds to Midnight

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Death came in quantum timeframes - far faster than things moved in the realm of biological time. What Mrs Aoyama suffered on August 6, precisely at 8.15 a.m. local time in Hirosh... Read More


Descent into Darkness

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday (August 26) said that ''shoot-at-sight orders'' at night, enforced since June 13 in Dhubri following communal disturbances in ... Read More


A Tale of Roots, Its Ruin & Renewal

Call it happenstance, Aug. 30 -- I picked up this latest offering from one of India's finest fiction writers Namita Gokhale in late August, and - as in the novel - in real life, a red alert has been d... Read More


Through the Lens of a Gritty Cop

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Shashi Raut ordered his third Thums Up-three more than he had drunk in the last thirteen years. The sugar kept him alert as he waited. This was already his second evening of wait... Read More


PM Modi calls for deeper India-Japan state-prefecture cooperation in meet with 16 governors

Tokyo, Aug. 30 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met governors of 16 Japanese prefectures in Tokyo and called for strengthening state-prefecture cooperation under the India-Japan Special Str... Read More


5 killed in cloudbursts in U'khand, a chunk of Manali washed away, Punjab submerged

New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- Torrential rain and cloudbursts wreaked havoc across northern and western India on Friday, killing at least five people and leaving 11 missing in Uttarakhand, inundating large pa... Read More


Heavy rains trigger waterlogging, traffic chaos in Delhi

New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- Fresh spells of rain drenched large parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) on Friday, triggering severe waterlogging, traffic gridlocks, and widespread disruption. ... Read More