At SCO summit, PM Narendra Modi calls for efforts to fight radicalisation

The prime minister said the developments in Afghanistan had made the challenge even more evident.

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· 3 hours ago

Big leap backward: Pakistan’s new national curriculum is a lesson in regressive policy-making

The main problem with the country's education system is that its books are frozen in history.

Zahid Hussain

· 4 hours ago

IMF chief refutes allegations of role in altering Ease of Doing Business report to favour China

The World Bank on Thursday announced it was discontinuing the report after a review of the findings of irregularities in the documents for 2018 and 2020.

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Coronavirus: India reports 34,403 new cases, 12.5% higher than Thursday

The Centre is reportedly aiming to achieve a vaccination record on Friday to celebrate Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday.

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· 7 hours ago

S Jaishankar meets Chinese foreign minister, calls for early resolution of disagreements on LAC

The external affairs minister said that India and China had to ‘deal with each other on merits’ and establish a relationship based on mutual respect.

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· 7 hours ago

How states flail and fail: What Modi and Shah could learn from the Afghanistan tragedy

A top-down, coercive approach to governance is rarely successful.

Deepanshu Mohan

· 8 hours ago

Priyanka Chopra apologises for participating in TV show facing backlash

‘The Activist’, where three teams of activists will compete against each other for their causes, has been criticised for being ‘tone deaf’.

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· 9 hours ago

Five historic acts of fashion provocation that came long before AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ dress

Using fashion as a tool to address wider social concerns has long been a strategy for people seeking to make change.

Peter McNeil, The Conversation

· Yesterday · 11:30 pm

Centre refutes NYT report claiming ICMR downplayed Covid-19 threat for Modi’s ‘political goals’

A physician who earlier worked with the Indian Council of Medical Research told the newspaper that ‘science is being used as a political weapon’ by the Centre.

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· Yesterday · 10:28 pm

Apple’s plan to scan iPhones for child abuse images raises the question: Can you trust Big Tech?

Risks are different depending on who you are and where you are in the world.

Laurin Weissinger, The Conversation

· Yesterday · 09:30 pm

US treated Pakistan like a ‘hired gun’ in its fight against Taliban, says Imran Khan

In an interview to CNN, the Pakistan prime minister dismissed allegations about his country offering shelter to terrorists.

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· Yesterday · 06:57 pm

Australia signs nuclear submarine deal with US, UK, faces objection from France

China said the agreement was a move to counter Beijing’s growing presence in the Indo-Pacific region.

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· Yesterday · 06:06 pm