We present our alphabet of 2020, pulling in everything you'll remember about this year we'd rather forget.
'The Indian Right can afford to be rigid; but as liberals, our position has to be one of constant evolution, or else death awaits us,' argues Sreehari Nair.
The migrant workers were walking along the rail tracks apparently to escape the attention of police. A video clip from the scene of the tragedy shows the bodies of migrant workers lying on the tracks and nearby with their meagre personal belongings scattered around.
He flew down to Mumbai as a Congress troubleshooter with a mission to save the wobbly coalition government in Karnataka, but minister D K Shivakumar hardly found any support from the Maharashtra unit of his party in his task and was sent packing to his home state.
Nath's resignation brought an end to the 18-day-long political drama which also played out in Haryana, Bengaluru and the national capital.
'I hope against hope that Indian film-makers don't take their future cue from the creator of this insufferable franchise,' says J Jagannath.
'New Delhi's rulers should be alert to lighting a dangerous tinderbox,' warns Sunil Sethi.
For the past few years the top brass at Pearson did pretty well to grapple with the threat of digital disruption.
'The spelling mistakes have screwed up the Index section of the book as well,' The News reported from Washington.
In high drama mid-air, a 32-year-old woman confronted a 60-year-old businessman who allegedly molested her on board an Indigo flight and shamed him in front of shocked passengers and crew with her outburst captured on camera.
GFA shoots down AFC claim, says no evidence
he government is examining a plan of bank recapitalisation and considering an urban version of MNREGS.
'An isolationist US and a disintegrating European Union will create a power vacuum that only China is in a position to fill -- a conclusion that is uncomfortable but unavoidable,' says Nitin Desai.
Pakistan will tighten its noose around members of banned outfits, under observation militants and human traffickers by canceling their travel documents, blocking their identity cards and withdrawing facilities like bank accounts, the Interior Minister said.
She began her career as an aspiring model in the late 1990s. A few decades later, she is one of India's best known politicians.
It would be a huge achievement if the new administration manages a successful transition to some sense of domestic and international normalcy in these frantic times marked by the pandemic and rise of illiberal regimes across the world, observes Shreekant Sambrani.
The London-based CEO of alldayPA and Isher Capital has been making waves on Instagram with his Rolls-Royce collection.
Buying Yahoo's assets would expand DailyMail.com's reach and improve its digital ad rev
'The forces of good are on the run.' 'But dark times also challenge people to fight.' 'I believe Indians will rise against these dark times.'
The prime minister was received at the airport by India's Ambassador to the US, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, and his American counterpart Ken Juster.
There is more than what meets the eye to the wealth accumulated by Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal.
'The Constitution, which talks about democracy and equality, is something that will be applied in this country, and not Manusmriti in which the RSS believes.'
Apologising for the incident, the Indian Army also announced an Rs 10 lakh compensation to the family of those who were killed.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
A moderate intensity earthquake, with epicentre in Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan, shook Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of North India in the wee hours of Saturday.
'Unless we change and we see a change in the direction we are taking, times can only get worse.'
'One provision in the Act -- immediate arrest (of those accused under the Act), made this act different from all other sections of the IPC.' 'With that provision snatched, the Dalit Act has become toothless because caste criminals feared this provision of immediate arrest the most.'
'Though we will raise our voices repeatedly, though we will not keep silent, this is a clear threat to us. What happened to Gauri Lankesh could happen to any of us,' says friend, and fellow journalist and activist Shashidhar Hemmady.
Seven persons had been arrested in connection with the blasts.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
The filmmaker, at the forefront of the criticism against the amended citizenship act, assured the students that he and many others stood behind the students in their long fight.
The clean-up process begun by the Reserve Bank of India runs the risk of spiralling out of control.
What does Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee thinks about India's education sector?
Inside the governors' reception hosted by Indian Ambassador to the US Navtej Sarna -- a first in more than 15 years.
The reopening of the station early on Monday brought the Belgian capital's underground network back up to full capacity.
Nothing is going to dramatically open up on May 3. There will be too many ifs and buts and terms and conditions and guidelines in leading one's life in various zones, reveals Sheela Bhatt.
German national football team manager Joachim Low has admitted his side were 'scared' ahead of Friday night's friendly with France due to an earlier bomb threat in the capital.
The rejection of the pleas of the top Congress leaders, including Oscar Fernandes, will pave the way for the Income Tax Department to scrutinise their records for the assessment year 2011-12.
In Shujaat Bukhari, Kashmir has lost a journalist, an activist, ambassador, a formidable voice and, above all, a great human being, mourns Athar Parvaiz.
After the match between Argentina and Iceland, an Argentine journalist hands over to Messi a red ribbon at a post-match press briefing.
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