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Budget 2022 - Women And Election May Guide The FM

Among the key issues to watch out for in the Union budget is whether the government will orient its focus on female participation in the economy

Covid Care For Your Baby

Since 8 December 2019, an epidemic of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has spread rapidly across the world.

What Russia Wants

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Bring real estate, petroleum, alcohol and power into GST

INTERVIEW: MONTEK SINGH AHLUWALIA, former deputy chairman of the Planning Commission

Blown away by Allu and Sam

Confession: I had not watched a single film featuring Allu Arjun or Samantha Ruth Prabhu until I bought a ticket for Pushpa—The Rise and found myself mesmerised by their sheer star power on screen. Sure, Samantha appears briefly in her debut dance number on the screen. But hey, what a debut!

Lotus in a lurch

BJP may find it difficult to retain Goa, thanks to anti-incumbency and defection of key leaders

White hat rising

As technology continues to evolve, the role of ethical hackers will become more prominent

Netaji was not a fascist

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ANITA BOSE PFAFF economist and daughter of Subhas Chandra Bose

NSG Chief: New Threat From Sticky Bombs

As IEDs pose a major threat, providing foolproof security to VIPs during campaign season will require adequate training, right equipment and seamless coordination between agencies

Will The Uttar Pradesh Polls Mark The End Of The BJP's Multi Caste Hindutva Vote Base?

The exodus of OBC allies from the BJP camp has led to this question: Will the assembly polls mark the end of the ruling party’s multi-caste hindutva vote base

Difficult To Emulate Virat, The Born Leader

Draws were not good enough for Virat Kohli, and this helped him deliver the wins he needed to take India to the top of Test cricket

FREEING THE FILMMAKER

Filmocracy, a Kerala collective, is making cinema a possibility for many young indie filmmakers

No alternative to privatising banking sector

INTERVIEW ARVIND PANAGARIYA, economist

MOTHER IN VERSE

In translating Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s poetry from Bangla, Nandana Dev Sen understood her mother a lot better and also found a place of refuge

TAKING FRESH GUARD

Virat Kohli’s decision to step down as Test captain was an emotional one, but not one taken in haste. A change of guard in the BCCI and lack of communication led to India’s most successful Test captain walking away. The silver lining could be the return of the champion batter

Weaponised drones will be next-gen terror tactics

INTERVIEW M.A. Ganapathy director general, National Security Guard

WATER BOOSTER

An abruptly ended march might have triggered the Congress’s political redemption in Karnataka

Weaponising space not ISRO's mandate

INTERVIEW: S. SOMANATH, chief of ISRO

By March, Covid Will Become Endemic

Interview DR D. NAGESHWAR REDDY, Chairman, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad

A TALE OF TWO INDIAS

Two years of living with the virus have changed the way many Indians earn their livelihood

Alt option

The Aam Aadmi Party’s campaign is based on the firm belief that Punjabi voters want change this time

Bird that soared

Lal Bahadur Shastri might have irreversibly established secularism

I FEAR FOR MY LIFE

Interview ALINA CHAN, Researcher

CHILDHOOD PAUSED

In the long term, kids may be the biggest victims of the pandemic—having suffered losses in learning and at psychosocial and developmental levels

CARE ON CALL

Apollo Hospitals played a pioneering role in mainstreaming telehealth services during the Covid-19 pandemic

NO CHILD'S PLAY

Tamil Nadu’s ambitious scheme is helping children fall back in love with learning

MAKE HEALTH CARE A NATIONAL PRIORITY

Interview DR PRATHAP C. REDDYChairman, Apollo Hospitals

Upgrading for the challenge

Even as hospitals in India battle Omicron and a surge in Covid-19 cases, they are building a health care system that will make them pandemic-proof

The lion and the lamb

His reign began with one crisis, and ended with another—not personal or political crises, but national crises that changed not only the discourse of Indian politics, but the polity itself.

Shifting school

Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru left an indelible mark on the country’s polity, defining the contours of its political, economic, social and cultural life.