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Ali Babar Patra, the 19-year-old surrendered during a encounter-infiltration operation by the army in Uri sector on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. (PTI)

DC Edit | Terrorist capture exposes Pak

It is not often that these trained and highly motivated conduits of terror are captured alive

30 Sep 2021 2:36 AM

Mr Kumar and Mr Mevani have not turned to the Congress drawn by its leadership, although many Indians regard Rahul Gandhi, for all his shortcomings that are on view, as the sole committed ideological opponent of the current dispensation at the highest political levels. (PTI)

DC Edit | Good riddance to Sidhu; but don’t stifle Mevani, Kanhaiya

The choice of senior personnel, and selection of party candidates for elections in some states, has caused discontent among Congress folk

30 Sep 2021 2:21 AM

What’s likely to impart energy on the ground to an Opposition line-up is the presence of prominent non-Congress chief ministers at the discussion. Representational Image. (Twitter)

DC Edit | Opp. grouping’s 1st test of unity

Joint protests have proved a good mobilising tool for decades if the demands being raised connect with the people

23 Aug 2021 4:20 AM

The manufacturers plan to make one crore doses a month and will make available five crore doses by the year-end. (Twitter)

DC Edit | 3-dose jab a breather for govt, hope for the young

The needle-free vaccine has shown an efficacy of 66.6 per cent in a late-stage trial of over 28,000 volunteers nationwide

23 Aug 2021 3:57 AM

The constitutional courts are the citizen’s defence against state power, and their effective functioning is a prerequisite for constitutional governance to survive. Representational Image. (PTI)

DC Edit | Speed up judges’ appointments

The court made a sharp observations on the practice and cited it as the prime reason why justice is often served with delay in this country

13 Aug 2021 1:34 AM

The Supreme Court has now brought the high court into the scene, with the hope that the process will gain the seriousness it deserves. (PTI)

DC Edit | Crime and the legislator: SC does its bit to sever link

Supreme Court seeks better accountability and transparency from the executive branch of government and the political parties that run them

12 Aug 2021 2:20 AM

Kapil Sibal (Twitter)

DC Edit | Few buy Sibal’s proposition

There were also voices that urged the Congress that it should get its house in order

12 Aug 2021 1:41 AM

The government may prioritise the use of the single dose vaccine keeping its advantages in mind for targeted vaccination. Representational Image. (AP)

DC Edit | Shot in arm for vaccine effort

Johnson & Johnson, the US-based company applied for EUA on Friday and was granted it the same day by the Drugs Controller General of India

09 Aug 2021 2:50 AM

It is moot whether Neeraj has opened the floodgates to Olympic gold medals but what is assured is there will be no dearth from now of athletes striving to achieve their dreams. (PTI)

DC Edit | Neeraj Chopra lights a flame for Indian sport

It took a farmer’s son from India’s wheat granary Haryana to put India on the athletics map

09 Aug 2021 2:30 AM

A video which has surfaced shows that a three-wheeler auto-rickshaw headed straight for the judge on an empty stretch of the road. (Twitter)

DC Edit | Crack down on judge's killers

We hope the CBI will receive the clearance to take up the matter without delay

02 Aug 2021 3:02 AM

Locking people up is an easier way for the governments and authorities to bring down the rate of infection than devising ways to use the scientific tools optimally. Representational Image. (PTI)

DC Edit | Keep focus on vaccinations, new lockdowns not way out

People's livelihoods have been hit hard and they have little or no idea when they will be able to get back to their workplaces

02 Aug 2021 2:58 AM

It is universally accepted that local self-government bodies and people’s representatives were at the forefront of the fight against the virus in the first wave but that focus is not seen there now. Representational Image (Twitter)

DC Edit | How Kerala lost Covid fight

Kerala has one of the best health infrastructure systems in the country and its doctors are renowned world over

29 Jul 2021 1:32 AM

If things took a dangerous turn just a couple of days after a meeting of northeastern states initiated by the home minister, Amit Shah, it does reflect that rivalries embedded in the region after Assam was historically broken up into smaller states are not easily resolved. (PTI)

DC Edit | First, douse the fire on Assam-Mizoram border

The police forces of two states figuring in such a conflagration is the closest India may have ever come to a civil war

29 Jul 2021 1:08 AM

Curiously, mankind itself is feeling hapless as climate change seems to be taking its toll. Representational Image (Twitter)

DC Edit | Climate change hits home

The precariously fragile ecosystems of the Western Ghats have also been potentially disrupted by construction activity

26 Jul 2021 2:07 AM

A Pakistan-dependent dispensation in Kabul, especially one that has strong Chinese backing, a prospect made feasible on account of the US departure from Afghanistan on account of war-weariness, will also seek to deny India a physical link to Central Asia. (Twitter)

DC Edit | It’s time for straight talk with US on Afghanistan

Even if India does not have a direct border with Afghanistan after Partition, that country lies just beyond our borders

26 Jul 2021 1:38 AM

Tokyo’s excellent sporting infrastructure will be offering a level playing field for the athlettes. (Twitter)

DC Edit | Let the Games begin in Tokyo as Covid lingers

No edition since 1896 may have been so fraught with the sheer tensions of a global pandemic

23 Jul 2021 3:18 AM

That the Union government has picked the right signals from the tragedy of citizens dying due to lack of oxygen has been reflected in the way it has been taking precautionary measures to avoid a repeat of it, should a third wave visit us. Representational Image (PTI)

DC Edit |Own up to oxygen mess

The PM-Cares Fund has been liberally funded for the setting up of oxygen plants across the country

23 Jul 2021 2:49 AM

In a world of constant crime and fear of war, Gandhi shows that there are several ways to express the desire and determination for peace

M.J. Warsi | How Gandhiji used silence as a weapon to ensure peace

Gandhi’s ideas influence both, those who admire him and those who do not

02 Oct 2020 5:58 PM

Kannada actress Ragini Dwivedi being escorted to an interrogation in Bengaluru. All the film personalities being investigated for drug abuse in Bollywood are women. (PTI)

India hates its young women

The only male to figure in the current Bollywood drug furore is SSR

27 Sep 2020 2:44 PM

Invest 900k dollars and you get an EB-5.

Investor visa: A way out of the Covid-19 conundrum

Some 14,000 new EB-5 visas to the USA would be available next year, starting October 1

25 Sep 2020 11:30 AM

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Teacher turns 100: A look back

Dressed in a silk saree accompanied by a pearl necklace, Shakuntala posed for a few photographs, surrounded by generations of family members as she celebrated an incredible milestone in her life. (DC Image)

Govt schools across TS in dire straits, poor infra hampering quality education

Just ahead of their reopening after the summer vacation, these schools seem to have been left out of the government's programme. (DC)

World's largest cricket jersey was made within nine days

The jersey got Guinness record recognition in the IPL final in Ahmedabad on Sunday. (By Arrangement)

Viral fever with gastro, dengue cases increase in Hyderabad

While monsoon is the peak season for dengue infections, even before the season, hospitals have been reportedly getting dengue cases. (Representational image: PTI)

AP man donates his retirement funds for SSY scheme, gets PM Modi's pat

Markapuram Rambhupal Reddy. (DC)

Low blow for alcohol lovers as liquor prices go higher in Telangana

The new price list is available on the website www.tsbcl.telangana.gov.in/ts/ — Representational image/DC

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NEP: Ambitious targets set for education sector

The NEP seeks to restore the importance of the arts, humanities and social sciences in our education system.

DC Edit | 3-dose jab a breather for govt, hope for the young

The manufacturers plan to make one crore doses a month and will make available five crore doses by the year-end. (Twitter)

Delimitation next stop in Modi government's Kashmir project

An Indian police officer gestures as he guards near the site of a gun battle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. AP Photo

'Act of God': As coronavirus rises, India's economy falls to all-time low

A worker sanitises public transportation buses after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the the Covid-19 coronavirus, in Chennai. AFP Photo

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Nation Gallery

A boy bathes in the Ranbir water canal to cool himself on a hot summer day in Jammu. Climate change has made India’s heat wave hotter, said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at the Imperial College of London. She said that before human activities increased global temperatures, heat waves like this year’s would have struck India once in about half a century. (AP Image)

In Pictures | India reels under intense heatwave

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao sat on a dharna for one-and-a-half hours at Delhi on Monday, and set a 24-hour deadline to the Centre to announce its decision on the Telangana government's demand that it procure all the paddy produced in the state in the rabi season. (Telangana CM KCR and BKU leader Rakesh Singh Tikait during the protest at Telangana Bhavan in Delhi- DC Image)

In Pictures | TRS protest in Delhi

Farmers celebrate after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the repealing of the three Central farm laws, at Singhu Border in New Delhi, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. (PTI)

In Pictures | Celebrations at Ghazipur border after farm laws repeal announcement

Low visibility due to smog after Diwali celebrations, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

In Pictures | Itchy throats, watery eyes: Delhi's AQI severe after Diwali

Jammu and Kashmir police on Thursday carried out a successful trial of drones that will be used for aerial surveillance on August 15, which marks the 75th Independence Day. (Photo by - HU Naqash)

Digital surveillance: Drones used ahead of Independence Day celebrations in J&K

A healthcare worker Nazir Ahmed carries vaccines and looks out from a hillock for Kashmiri shepherds to vaccinate them in Tosamaidan, southwest of Srinagar. The challenge for health workers travelling to to long distances for vaccinating mostly shepherds and nomadic herders in the remote meadows of the Himalayan region has not been the treacherous terrain but to persuade women to get COVID-19 vaccines. (AP Photo)

In Pictures | Health workers vaccinate Kashmir nomads

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