The great Indian vaccine quest

Dr Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist at the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO), is at the forefront of the agency's global battle against Covid-19. She spoke with Group Editorial Director Raj Chengappa on the importance of vaccines in halting the pandemic. Excerpts:

Interview with Union Power Minister RK Singh.

Crazy Delicious, though over the top, is ultimately amusing

Vadehra Art Gallery’s online initiative is aimed at supporting young artists and charities

What shape might religion take in a world not born of Genesis?

There may be 300 Ramayanas but there is only one Ramcharitmanas. Pavan Varma’s latest book celebrates Tulsidas’s rendition

Whenever Javed Akhtar has shared his lack of faith with a large audience, he has received the silent approval of many

Responding to the pandemic with poetry, Gulzar writes of melancholy while finding hope in humanism.

India’s regulatory cholesterol is a direct result of the Avadi Resolution of 1955 that murdered competition, kneecapped capital markets and distrusted entrepreneurs.

The book concentrates on three main themes: India-US relations, India’s policy of friendship with China, and V.K. Krishna Menon’s role in the formulation of India’s early foreign policy.

The 6,355 sq. km area has recorded a 300 per cent rise in Covid cases in a month. And, alarmingly, the worst is yet to come

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Here's this week's glasshouse.

Arrested outside Madhya Pra­­desh’s Mahakal temple in Ujjain, after a tip-off on July 9, he was being taken to Kanpur when the car he was travelling in overturned, reportedly in an accid­ent, an hour before the police convoy was to reach the city.

Crucial bypolls on its mind, the BJP gives Jyotiraditya Scindia loyalists a lion's share of posts in the Shivraj cabinet expansion, risking the wrath of party veterans left out.