All English Champions league final between Manchester City and Chelsea has been shifted from Turkey’s Istanbul to Portugal’s Porto. Last week, Turkey was put on UK’s travel ‘red list’, meaning that no English fans would be able to attend the game. Manchester City will face Chelsea in Champions League final (Reuters Image) HIGHLIGHTS Champions League…

For Tamil Nadu’s Big Two Dravidian parties, the AIADMK (All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) and DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam), managing their poll allies’ demand for seats is turning out to be a tough ask. The difficulty in imposing their will on much smaller allies also gives away the apprehensions of these parties about the 2021…

Days after the violent conflict between Israel and Palestine turned into a full-blown confrontation with massive airstrikes and rockets being propelled from both sides, what has emerged as one of the biggest attractions is the Iron Dome system. The shield which has defended Israeli airspace from a barrage of rockets propelled by Hamas and Palestinian…

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For Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin, who turns 68 on March 1, this will be the ultimate challenge of his career. If he and his party, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), fail to dislodge the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in the Tamil Nadu election this time too-the latter has been in office for a…

It was the end of May 2019. The BJP’s aggressive campaign against Mamata Banerjee’s appeasement politics bore fruit as the Trinamool Congress (TMC) lost 12 seats in the parliamentary election to wind up with a reduced tally of just 22 of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. Hardly had the West Bengal chief…

Old is the gold standard when it comes to films, but OTT stars are gaining viewers’ attention, as our MOTN survey attests. Amitabh Bachchan emerged as No. 1 second time in a row, with 29% respondents backing him against 23% in August 2020. The year 2020 was a bellwether one for the Indian entertainment industry….

Corruption, safety of women and law & order remain prime concerns for MOTN respondents. Opinion is divided on the state of Indian democracy, and differs along religious lines on ‘love jihad’ laws. Is democracy safe or under siege in India? According to the India Today Mood of the Nation (MOTN) survey, the country is divided…

September 16 was one of the darkest days of the Covid pandemic in India. The country added 97,655 new cases in 24 hours, pushing active cases to over 1 million. At 5,115,893, India’s total Covid count on that date was the second highest in the world while the number of Covid deaths in absolute figures…

Yogi Adityanath has been an unusual chief minister in India’s political landscape. Prior to his being appointed to the top job in Uttar Pradesh-among India’s most politically-significant states-in March 2017, Adityanath was not even speculated as being among the contenders for the job. As the head of a socio-religious institute in the state, he was…