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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...

23 Aug 2021 3:57 AM IST

Now, the cases heard by the Supreme Court have anywhere between two and 30 parties. Who decides who will be unmuted? (PTI)

DC Edit | Speed up judgesâ€™ appointments

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

13 Aug 2021 1:34 AM IST

Now, the cases heard by the Supreme Court have anywhere between two and 30 parties. Who decides who will be unmuted? (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...

12 Aug 2021 2:20 AM IST

Kapil Sibal (Twitter)

DC Edit | Few buy Sibalâ€™s proposition

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

12 Aug 2021 1:41 AM IST

In this March 26, 2021, file photo, a member of the Philadelphia Fire Department prepares a dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site setup at a Salvation Army location in Philadelphia. (Photo: 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...

9 Aug 2021 2:50 AM IST

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 farmerâ€™s son from Indiaâ€™s wheat granary Haryana to put India on the athletics map

9 Aug 2021 2:30 AM IST

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

2 Aug 2021 3:02 AM IST

Globally, 54 per cent women lost their jobs during the Covid pandemic, said Columbia University Medical Centre Public Psychiatry Education Director and Clinical Psychiatry Associate Professor Dr Stephanie M. Le Melle on Saturday. (Photo: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...

2 Aug 2021 2:58 AM IST

It is universally accepted that local self-government bodies and peoples 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 July 2021 1:32 AM IST

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 July 2021 1:08 AM IST

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 July 2021 2:07 AM IST

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 | Itâ€™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 July 2021 1:38 AM IST