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A week after the Facebook fiasco, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has replaced the entire media team. In the wake of the Cyclone Amphan and the relief work being undertaken, the person handling the ministry’s Facebook account uploaded a picture of a table with...

Every state government has taken upon itself the task of bringing back their migrant workers home. After the factories had been shut and industries closed down in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, migrant workers were rendered jobless. What compounded the crisis was the Prime...

During this time of lockdown, thousands and thousands of Indians, especially women, have cut back on their daily food and fed the street animals instead. As the days drag on, the money has dwindled because no one is earning any money, but the hunger levels...

The COVID-19 scenario in India is turning from bad to worse, and the lockdown – as also the virtual paralysis of the nation for over two months – has not been of much help in checking the spread of the virus. When the lockdown was...

Entering the fray for the upcoming round of Rajya Sabha elections is HD Deve Gowda, who has had a long innings in politics and at 88, is still going strong. He has been among the luckiest in politics, having had occasions to rule Karnataka as...

With public activities remaining paralysed, democracy has been on slow gear during past two months. Its reactivation could happen in altogether new ways, the contours of which are not clear as yet. The emerging scenario may have a telling effect on the election process amid...

A meeting between India and China is to take place today, June 6, about the problem on the Ladakh border. It will be between Lieutenant Generals from both sides. Lt Gens are three-star generals, one rank below the highest rank of four stars. Previous talks...

The Police Academy chief in Telangana and senior IPS officer VK Singh has threatened to resign from service if he is denied promotion. Singh has reportedly written to state Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar that though he was empaneled for the post of Director General of...

The Centre has further relaxed the lockdown norms since June 1 with state governments having been given power to decide at the local level whether to go for easing based on the exigencies on the ground with regard to the spread and status of Covid-19....

I must have pointed out a hundred problems in eating chicken. The latest is something that has the poultry industry really worried. They have labelled the problem Wooden Breast Syndrome or Chewy Chicken. A rising number of breast fillets are laced with hard fibres. When...