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The saving grace is the White House remains the preeminent centre of political power with a capacity to govern. (Photo: AFP)

DC Edit | Speaker battle leaves US bruised

Kevin McCarthy is the Speaker after a bruising battle, but the traditions of US democracy, once considered a model for...

9 Jan 2023 12:21 AM IST

The FIR cited an inappropriate post in which the AMU professor, whose husband is based in Kashmir, referred to the communication blackout in the Valley immediately after the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmirs special status. (Photo: File)

DC Edit | Foreign univsâ€™ campuses in India welcome move

India has taken one more step towards allowing foreign universities to set up their campuses in India with the...

9 Jan 2023 12:06 AM IST

Ukrainian servicemen take part in Orthodox Christmas Eve celebrations in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on January 6, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo: AFP)

DC Edit | Ukraine: Give peace a chance

The ceasefire to mark Orthodox Christmas ordered by Vladimir Putin, at the behest of the head of the Russian Orthodox...

7 Jan 2023 9:42 AM IST

Supreme Court (PTI)

DC Edit | Focus on human angle in evictions welcome

The order of the Supreme Court staying the eviction of about 4,000 families from railway land in Haldwani in Uttarakhand...

7 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

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DC Edit | To a hydrogen-powered India

Like most other countries of the non-European world, India missed the industrial revolution, and when its benefits...

6 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

A special flight of Air India AI-1943 lands at Bucharest in Romania for the evacuation of stranded Indians. (ANI)

DC Edit | Crack down hard on any misbehaviour on flights

The behaviour of a drunk passenger in business class on board an Air India flight was so obnoxious that the airline...

6 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Captain Shiva Chouhan. (Photo: Twitter)

DC Edit | Siachen: Breaking barriers

To say women have reached the heights is a cliché in the modern age, but this is literally what Captain Shiva...

5 Jan 2023 12:15 AM IST

Supreme Court (Photo: ANI)

DC Edit | Free speech paramount, leadersâ€™ discretion must

The Supreme Court’s ruling that additional restrictions cannot be imposed on people’s representatives,...

5 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

Eight people died after falling into a drain caused by a stampede. Four others were injured, two of them critically. (Photo: ANI)

DC Edit | Stampede deaths: Who to blame?

There seems to be a continuity of bad luck for Andhra Pradesh, with two stampedes at the two different public meetings...

4 Jan 2023 12:15 AM IST

Supreme Court (Photo: ANI)

DC Edit | Demonetisation valid, but was it judicious?

The Supreme Court has affixed its stamp of approval on the November 8, 2016, notification of the Union government...

4 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

File photo of cricketer Rishabh Pant receiving treatment at a hospital after his car met with an accident, in Roorkee, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | Pant mishap: Focus on roads, users

The talented young cricketer Rishabh Pant has had a miraculous new lease of life after being the lone person involved in...

3 Jan 2023 12:15 AM IST

Indian economic growth has steadily slowed to a six-year low of 5.0 per cent in the April-June quarter from an 8.1 per cent peak in the January-March quarter of 2018.

DC Edit | Indian economy looking up, but joblessness a big worry

As the world turned a leaf of a year, beyond the crushing grasp of the pandemic of two years before it, and ushered in...

3 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST