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Sometimes timing plays a decisive role in shaping one’s life and future. A move a little earlier or a little delayed may make or mar one’s life. This, by hindsight, seems to be true about the US President-elect Joe Biden. As raving reviews with excerpts...

The formation of the world’s biggest free trade bloc – the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) - by 15 Asia-Pacific economies, minus India, on 15 November comes close on the heels of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit (SCO) last week. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had,...

Nitish Kumar is all set to return as chief minister of Bihar for a consecutive fourth term, albeit with diminished clout, after a bitterly fought election in which the NDA-led coalition emerged victorious by securing 125 seats in the 243-member state Assembly. The BJP emerged...

More than a year after the change in the status of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, there is an acute shortage of IAS, IPS and other all-India service officers in the Union Territories.  The situation is dire enough for the Ministry of Home Affairs to...

Markets had closed at a fresh lifetime high Wednesday continuing the gains for three days on the trot. The current rally, barring a small correction Thursday, looks a bit out of place, for, there are no structural or policy level shifts by the India Inc...

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has categorised all industries based on a Pollution Index -- which calculates the effect they have on water, air and land and the health of people -- Red, Orange, Green and White. Red category industries include slaughterhouses, hazardous chemical...

If you add “la” ~ the French feminine of the equivalent of the English article ‘the’ to “comma”, the combination makes the US Vice President-elect! This is how Kamala Harris’ campaign itself sought to guide the Americans how to pronounce her name correctly after President...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will come face to face with Chinese President Xi Jinping, albeit virtually, for the first time since the deadly clash in Galwan Valley in May in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed. PM Modi is scheduled to share screen-time with Chinese...

The obduracy of US President Donald Trump, who refuses to accept the poll results sealing his fate for a second term in office and heralding Joe Biden as the new President, is sending wrong signals to the institution of democracy and giving a fillip to...

With Joe Biden emerging the winner in US Presidential race, the top BJP leadership has started to think of ways to repair the damage PM Narendra Modi’s open support to President Donald Trump has caused. After the US Presidential election results were declared, Trump’s failure...