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In this image taken from video released by the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office, an unidentified shooter points a gun while entering Sparetime Recreation in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Maine State Police ordered residents in the state's second-largest city to shelter in place Wednesday night as the suspect remains at large. (AP/PTI)

AA Edit | US gun violence out of control

It is a curiosity of America that virtually anyone can own weapons more powerful than a simple yet deadly handgun

28 Oct 2023 12:05 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Image: PTI)

AA Edit | Will Hindutva help Modi to win record 3rd term?

The Hindutva project for electoral gains has been overriding the topics Modi tried to bring to the focus of late.

27 Oct 2023 12:07 AM

Newly elected US House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks during a press conference after his election at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 25, 2023. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP)

AA Edit | At last, US House gets a Speaker

It is being said that the arch Conservative Johnson made it as he had lesser enemies within the Republican Party

27 Oct 2023 12:02 AM

AA Edit | Did UN chief cross a line?

Apart from pedantic calls for an immediate ceasefire, there is little the association of nations can do.

26 Oct 2023 12:05 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Unity needed for true development agenda

The political leadership of the world’s most populous nation with half of them under 30 years has the task to set a national agenda

26 Oct 2023 12:05 AM

Relatives and family members carry the mortal remains of former Indian cricket team captain Bishan Singh Bedi during his cremation at Lodhi Road crematorium, in New Delhi, on Tuesday. (Image: PTI)

AA Edit | Bedi Indian cricket’s bulwark

The Sardar of spin was the classicist in the Indian spin pantheon

25 Oct 2023 12:00 AM

Indrakeeladri hill and Durga ghat Illuminated on the last day of Dasara Festival celebrations in Vijayawada on Monday. (Image: DC)

AA Edit | As good battles evil... fight for what is right

When Ram fights Ravan, there are moments at which the battle looks impossible

25 Oct 2023 12:00 AM

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (Darryl Dyck/AP, File)

AA Edit | India’s grievance against Trudeau, not Canada

The Canadian Prime Minister has been accused of espousing the cause of non-resident Indians amounting to toying with fissiparous tendencies

23 Oct 2023 12:00 AM

ISRO successfully tested the Gaganyaan Service Module Propulsion System (SMPS) – which caters to the requirements of the Orbital Module – at IPRC, Mahendragiri. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Isro powering India’s dreams

Indians see Isro’s achievements as the country reclaiming its rightful ‘great power’ status.

22 Oct 2023 11:56 PM

US President Joe Biden (R) and China's President Xi Jinping (L). (PTI File Image)

AA Edit | Biden, Xi preside over fractured world

China’s aim may be more geo-economic than geo-political in celebrating the BRI with the ambition of energising developed countries

21 Oct 2023 12:00 AM

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. (Image: Twitter)

AA Edit | Freebies vs essentials row rages ahead of elections

Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan is literally on a freebie spree, offering liberal help to voters, especially women.

20 Oct 2023 11:58 PM

Qassam rockets fly over destroyed buildings following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. (AP/PTI)

AA Edit | Hospital bombing changes optics in Israel-Hamas war

Aid may be just a sliver of comfort for the beleaguered citizens, but anything would seem like a ray of light at the end of the tunnel

20 Oct 2023 12:18 AM

Rajasthan Former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | BJP on a sticky wicket in Rajasthan

The BJP central leadership is sidelining former chief minister Vasundhara Raje who holds sway within the party ranks.

20 Oct 2023 12:04 AM

A screenshot shows a representation of Chandrayaan-3's successful landing on the Moon’s surface. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | India aiming for the stars

Private funding will be the way of the future as wide-ranging testing comes into play to create and sustain space stations

19 Oct 2023 12:05 AM

The five-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices SK Kaul, SR Bhat, Hima Kohli and PS Narasimha during pronouncement of verdict on same-sex marriages, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | No legal status yet for gay couples; rights to expand

It is now for the Union government to make good the promise it has made before the court

19 Oct 2023 12:05 AM

There is a strategic bent to Mr Biden’s visit in the sense that he will be hoping that the message of his presence in Israel is strong enough to deter Iran, Syria and other powers, and militant players in the region, from expanding the war against Israel to more than the one front that the Hamas is involved in. (Image: AP)

AA Edit | Biden goes to Israel amid fears of a larger conflict

In his 15 years in office, the belligerent Netanyahu had never engaged in an all-out war

18 Oct 2023 12:00 AM

The CBI, manned by some of the best brains in the country, owes an answer not only to the relatives of 19 women and children, but also the nation as to how it managed to bungle up in a case where skeletons were found within and outside the housing compound of the defendants. (File Image: PTI)

AA Edit | Nithari: Justice not delivered

Monumental state failures in the conduct of criminal prosecution have created a new section of society which cries for instant gratification

18 Oct 2023 12:00 AM

AA Edit | Centrist swing in New Zealand

Jacinda’s strict isolationist rules during the Covid-19 pandemic when New Zealand cut itself off even more from the world

17 Oct 2023 12:05 AM

Pakistani cricketer, Mohammed Rizwan. (Image: Twitter)

AA Edit | End the communal, political invasion of cricketing arena

A Pakistani cricketer, Mohammed Rizwan, offers a religious prayer in the playground and dedicates his century in a previous match to Gaza.

17 Oct 2023 12:05 AM

Once India accepts to play host to major sporting events it must also follow freer visa policies and travel, allowing spectators to come in freely from abroad. (PTI File Image)

AA Edit | Confident India ready to pitch for 2036 Olympics

The pell-mell ways of our traffic even on thoroughfares are also to be considered a hazard.

16 Oct 2023 12:37 AM

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