'In the last two months, we have only done 16,000 tests and that is nothing.' 'If coronavirus cases in the community picks up and infection spreads, then we will be in big trouble.'
'For the last two months, the menace of stray dogs has gone to scary proportions in Kerala' 'What will you do if you cannot walk on the road without fear?'
The danger to India's democracy is coming from recourse to mobocracy encouraged by the anti-Modi gang, argues Vivek Gumaste.
The Modi government is notoriously honest about one fact: It does not listen to economists, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Roland Folger has told the ministries concerned that they are cutting India off from the rest of the world by making it a highly protected market, the Mercedes Benz India CEO & MD tells Ajay Modi.
'Since the NDA took office in 2014, and aggressively since 2019, the Union government seems hell bent on centralising all power and resources, only to fail spectacularly.'
While there was unrest in the rest of the Kashmir valley, the Dal Lake was serene and peaceful.
'Talent is very important. It's a mix of everything -- you need to be a great dancer, you need to have good looks, you need to be glamorous... The newcomers these days rarely have all these qualities. It's been a while; no one has that oomph factor yet. Either someone is sexy but okay in performance or somebody is extremely good at performing and okay (looking).' Raai Laxmi turns sexy for Julie 2.
D Prakash Rao from Cuttack uses the income earned by selling tea to educate around 70-75 slum children.
'When you sow a small plant, then you keep watch on it so that wild cattle should not eat that sapling.'
The protesters, including students and local residents, hung a large map of India outside the varsity gate number 7 showing the places where students from other universities are carrying out protests against the CAA.
Himanshu Sehgal is traveling across India, armed with a plate and a camera.
A Capitol Police officer was killed and another injured after a man rammed his car into a security barrier outside the United States Capitol and then got out of the vehicle and lunged towards the officers with a knife, setting off a major security scare.
And why markets could give up 25 per cent of all these gains made since March 2020
As Venezuelans continue to flee the starvation, crime and the horrific inflation that continues to mark the worst crisis it has ever faced, Radha Biswas looks back at a devastated country she continues to love deeply.
'The Afghans used to say that if there is any person whose name should be taken after Allah, it is Hindustani.'
'I have seen so many cows roaming the streets of Mumbai. When people from foreign countries see cows roaming on our streets, it is not good.'
AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford are facing questions about their Covid-19 vaccine and whether regulators would quickly authorise its emergency use after the pharma company acknowledged an error in the vaccine dosage received by some participants and other irregularities and omissions, according to the New York Times.
Cab aggregators caught between showing profitability to investors, increasing their network and dabbling in areas such as food ordering have seen a major blow to their primary business.
'I'm an unbalanced human,' the founding partner of AZB, India's top law firm, tells Pavan Lall.
'He always avoided eating non-vegetarian food in presence of his deputies if they were fasting for the month of Shravan.' 'There were no Hindu, Jain, Parsi and Swaminarayan festivals he would forget.' 'He was a conservative Muslim and therefore could get along well with conservative Hindus.'
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Flood in the rice bowl: Keralites who lost everything stare at uncertainty.
'Tragically, compassion is in short supply in our ancient capital city, as the horrific violence in recent weeks testified,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Can humans and leopards co-exist in Mumbai? The answer is not what you think!
Paytm will cross 100 million wallets ahead of its self-determined deadline of 2015-end. It currently has 66 million.
'As an idea, cleaning up India is a good one,' says Mitali Saran.
Hundreds of people trapped in floods-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir with some left marooned on rooftops and others clinging to trees are in dire need of water and food.
'Nitish Kumar's government has proved during these floods that it is a helpless government.'
'Essentially there are three things the government should be doing: Identify who you are going to get your vaccine from, figure out how you are going to pay for it, and figure out how you're going to deliver it and to whom.'
'If it doesn't happen, we may be in for a difficult time.' 'Our biggest problem is our population and the fact we are a very social people.' 'However, I would say two months is more than enough time for things to settle down.'
'These reports of cases being very low in other states, is it true? Are the numbers believable?'
While everyone raves about the joys of the monsoons, Keya Sarkar is not as enthusiastic.
'When I stepped on Indian soil, I lay down on the ground and kissed my homeland.'
Doval was seen eating food on a footpath outside closed shops and talking to locals.
'One cup of tea brings me so much happiness.' 'You take that away from me and I know I'm going to have a really bad day.'
'And if you think this is alarmist nonsense, you are helping it happen,' says Mitali Saran.
Life, work and play in Drona's village.
'It was one thing for me to bear his physical and verbal abuses. But a few months ago, he began to stay out longer. New smells came from his clothes.' 'My fears were confirmed when I awoke one night and noticed him on the phone, talking and acting dirty.' A heart-wrenching excerpt from Namit Arora's Love And Loathing In Silicon Valley: A Novel.
