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DC Edit | Kerala Ends Extreme Poverty

DC Edit | Kerala Ends Extreme Poverty

It took nearly four-and-half years of intense micro-planning and effective implementation, coordinated by the local...

30 Oct 2025 11:37 PM IST

DC Edit | World Economy Breathes Easy After Trump Meets Xi

DC Edit | World Economy Breathes Easy After Trump Meets Xi

Accustomed as the world has become to dealing with the huge gaps between what he says and what he does, a ‘pause’ might...

30 Oct 2025 11:26 PM IST

Vamshi had a good command over English. It helped him get placed at a call centre which offered him a good salary. However, he was dissatisfied with his earnings as he wanted a more luxurious lifestyle. (Representational image)

DC Edit | Service Sector Reforms Vital to Sustain Growth

Niti Aayog’s latest report on India’s services sector lays bare the paradox of the service sector — an economy that is...

30 Oct 2025 12:11 AM IST

DC Edit | Halt Cloud Seeding, Fight Bad Air

DC Edit | Halt Cloud Seeding, Fight Bad Air

Even in places where they still try them, as in Abu Dhabi in the UAE, it leads more often to a change in the...

30 Oct 2025 12:06 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | No End to Confusion as Pan-India SIR Rolls Out

Shikha Mukerjee | No End to Confusion as Pan-India SIR Rolls Out

What the EC and CEC Gyanesh Kumar appear to be ignorant about is that the “purification” process directed against...

30 Oct 2025 12:02 AM IST

Syed Ali Murtaza Rizvi. (Image: http://tsmsidc.telangana.gov.in)

Dilip Cherian | Queries Raised as Telangana Officer Seeks to Bow Out...

In Rizvi’s case, “enough” seems to have come after four transfers in just two years, an administrative relay race that...

29 Oct 2025 6:48 PM IST

DC Edit | Inclusive SIR Can Help Clean Up Electoral Rolls

DC Edit | Inclusive SIR Can Help Clean Up Electoral Rolls

The exercise is based on the voters’ list published after the last SIR, which was held in 2002-2004

28 Oct 2025 10:47 PM IST

DC Edit | Vodafone Relief Raises Questions

DC Edit | Vodafone Relief Raises Questions

Vodafone Idea owes around Rs 2 lakh crore to the department of telecommunications (DoT), which includes AGR dues,...

28 Oct 2025 10:38 PM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | COP30: Can We Samba To A Greener Global Future?

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | COP30: Can We Samba To A Greener Global Future?

The world has not been hopelessly profligate. The global annual growth rate of carbon emissions reduced by 22 per cent...

28 Oct 2025 10:13 PM IST

Bhopinder Singh | Islamabad Seems To Be Losing The Plot As War Looms On Afghan Border

Bhopinder Singh | Islamabad Seems To Be Losing The Plot As War Looms...

Gul Bahadur is a direct descendant of Mirza Ali Khan (of the Madda Khel clan of Uthmanzai Pathans), a revered...

28 Oct 2025 9:57 PM IST

Aakar Patel | Could Mamdani Win NY Mayoral Poll, Give Politics New Focus in US?

Aakar Patel | Could Mamdani Win NY Mayoral Poll, Give Politics New...

Democratic nominee leads ahead of November 4 election after a grassroots campaign.

27 Oct 2025 9:59 PM IST

Sanjaya Baru | The Many Hyderabads That We Now Live in

Sanjaya Baru | The Many Hyderabads That We Now Live in

Once divided by the Musi, now united by diversity — Hyderabad’s story of many cities in one.

27 Oct 2025 9:39 PM IST