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Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at a high-level event on Green Credits Programme during the COP28, in UAE, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. (PTI Photo)

DC Edit | India can still be part of climate deal

It is surprising that India was not among the 118 nations that signed the Global Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge...

4 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

BRS leader K. Chandrashekar Rao, and Congress leaders Bhupesh Baghel and Ashok Gehlot, who are set to lose their positions as chief ministers of Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan respectively after the results of 2023 elections to the Legislative Assemblies of the states. (PTI Photo)

DC Edit | Saffron sweep in North, a big shift in Telangana

In Telangana, the odds were always against the Congress Party upsetting the BRS applecart. The pink party led by former...

4 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Narendra Modi with BJP National President J.P. Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah during celebrations after partys victory in elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, at BJP headquarters, in New Delhi, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Local factors led to BJP's Hindi belt poll...

The BJP has won three of the states north of the Vindhyas -- Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh -- with clear...

4 Dec 2023 12:03 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | The Leopard on WhatsApp

Shashi Warrier | The Leopard on WhatsApp

It all started with WhatsApp. In case you don’t know what WhatsApp is, it’s a free cellphone app that serves...

3 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

Afghanistans Hashmatullah Shahidi. (PTI Image)

Manish Tewari | Why India must gird itself for Pak-Afghan showdown

On the 23rd of October, 2023, Afghanistan steamrolled Pakistan in the recently concluded cricket World Cup. In a vivid...

3 Dec 2023 12:02 AM IST

What happens to the Kohinoor once its returned will be a matter of contention. (DC File Image)

Farrukh Dhondy | UK must return all its loot from the Elgin Marbles to...

“O Bachchoo why do you dance with such delight The day is young and the sun and love are bright You now rejoice...

2 Dec 2023 12:10 AM IST

In exit polls seen so far in the elections to five states, depending on which data point you choose, the Congress is winning or can form a government in four states. (PTI File Image)

DC Edit | Needless drama over exit polls

In a democracy, the Fourth Estate exists and has a profound primary duty of informing citizens, because it is held that...

2 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

Maharashtra Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis pays tribute to the martyrs who laid down their lives while fighting terrorists during 26/11 attack, on its 15th anniversary in Mumbai, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (PTI Photo/Kunal Patil)

Shobhaa De | A not so grand goodbye to 2023 and here's to 2024

The party season is on big time. Of course, I am referring to the political parties bickering and haggling –...

2 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. (Photo by Gabriel DUVAL / AFP)

DC Edit | Love him or hate him, Kissinger shaped history

Former US secretary of state and national security adviser Henry Kissinger, one of the most dominant and controversial...

2 Dec 2023 12:04 AM IST

DC Edit | Guidelines for governors vital

DC Edit | Guidelines for governors vital

By allowing the government of Kerala to amend its petition against the governor holding back bills passed by the...

1 Dec 2023 12:10 AM IST

Nijjar, whom India had declared a wanted terrorist, was gunned down on June 18 in Surrey, a suburb of Vancouver that is home to a major Sikh community. Pic: Twitter

DC Edit | After US files plot' charges, India needs to come clean

The cat is out of the bag now. An indictment in a Manhattan court says an Indian may have orchestrated a plot to kill a...

1 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

People at the under-construction Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel after the successful evacuation of the 41 trapped workers, in Uttarkashi district, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Indranil Banerjie | The Silkyara lesson: Can we unite to fight crises?

When the rescuers tunnelling into the blocked Himalayan tunnel at Silkyara in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi region...

1 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST