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On Sunday, India invited history for an elegant cup of tea, demolishing Thomas Cup royalty, Indonesia, 3-0 in the finals. Denying them their 15th, while winning their first ever. Against all expectations. A dozen players in Bangkok and their coaches there and in India though, believed throughout. It’s a ...

The UNSC’s “watered down” statement on the Russian invasion of Ukraine; Naseeruddin Shah writes on Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s verses being removed from textbooks; The Assam government’s plans to set up schools for the children of historically marginalised tea garden workers — here are the top stories from today’s edition ...

The Big Story Finalising its order for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the Delimitation Commission recommended seven additional constituencies — six for Jammu and one for Kashmir — taking the total number of seats in the UT to 90 from 83 earlier. The order, however, has come ...

Good morning, from the latest on the Russia-Ukraine war to the growing demand for tourism in Jammu and Kashmir – here are the top stories from today’s edition of The Indian Express. Big Story In New Delhi’s sharpest message to Moscow, India abstained from voting on a resolution that ...

In an exclusive interaction with The Indian Express after the Congress’ defeat in the recent state elections, senior party leader Kapil Sibal, who is also part of the ’G-23’, said, “For a party after eight years, since 2014, to say that we will have a Chintan Shivir to find ...

Big Story  As India continued to report a Covid surge with 16,764 new cases in the last 24 hours, and an active caseload of 91,361, AIIMS chief Randeep Guleria told The Indian Express that the highly infectious Omicron variant mainly affects the upper respiratory tract and airways, rather than ...

The Big Story  As cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant continued to rise, the drug regulator granted emergency use authorisation (EUA) to Molnupiravir, the world’s first Covid-19 pill. The regulator also granted EUA to Hyderabad-based Biological E. for Corbevax, India’s first indigenously developed RBD protein sub-unit vaccine against ...

Expressing regret over the incident in Nagaland in which civilians were killed by security personnel, Union Home Minister Amit Shah informed Parliament Monday that “a team of 21 para-commandos of Indian Army laid an ambush” for insurgents in Mon district on December 4 evening but “it turned out to ...

The Big Story  Three internal reports flagging hate speech, “misinformation” and “problem content”, among several other red flags concerning Facebook operations in India in the months ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections were played down during review meetings with Chris Cox, then Vice President of Facebook. Minutes of ...

The Big Story Expressing its lack of confidence in the judicial commission appointed by the Uttar Pradesh government to probe the October 3 incidents in Lakhimpur Kheri, the Supreme Court proposed the appointment of a retired judge from “a different High Court” to monitor investigations till the chargesheets are ...