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The Taiwanese flag waves on the tower of the Presidential Office Building, originally built in 1919 as the office of the Governor-General of Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period, in Taipei on January 14, 2024. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

AA Edit | Taiwan vote reinforces freedom spirit

Taiwanese seem determined to keep clear of China’s dream of unification despite the threat of invasion that China is unlikely to forswear

15 Jan 2024 12:05 AM

Annapoorani fallout: cultural sensitivity tested in streaming. (Image: Twitter)

AA Edit | Netflix’s Annapoorani faux pas

Netflix backtracks on Annapoorani: Freedom of speech in question

13 Jan 2024 12:05 AM

Eknath Shinde, Chief Minister of Maharashtra. (File Image: ANI Twitter)

AA Edit | Sena vs Sena: Speaker’s ruling open to challenge

The Speaker upheld Eknath Shinde faction as the real Shiv Sena and maintaining the status quo after the split without disqualifying anyone

12 Jan 2024 12:06 AM

Union Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and other delegates at a seminar on semiconductor & electronics during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2024, in Gandhinagar, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Gujarat fosters healthy competition

The Vibrant Gujarat Investor Summit has now completed two decades

12 Jan 2024 12:05 AM

The pace at which Indian aviation is expanding, it may not be long before the world’s most populous country also becomes the biggest aviation market.(Representational image: PTI)

AA Edit | More rest for pilots welcome

The aviation sector, particularly in India, has been struggling to cope with human resources issues

09 Jan 2024 11:24 PM

In this Wednesday, April 24, 2019, file photo, Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped during the 2002 riots in the state, in New Delhi. The Supreme Court on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, quashed the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the case and directed the convicts to surrender before jail authorities within two weeks. (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan)

AA Edit | Justice for Bilkis Bano at last, some hope for India

While it is the job of the State to hunt down & punish criminals, by a quirk of fate, that job fell on the modest shoulders of this warrior

09 Jan 2024 11:20 PM

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gestures while speaking to the media, a day after she won the 12th parliamentary elections, in Dhaka on January 8, 2024. (Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP)

AA Edit | Hasina faces challenges; but win is good for India

Bangladesh may be in danger of being reduced to a one-party state as the main Opposition chose to boycott the poll, and 15 other parties

08 Jan 2024 11:12 PM

The ULFA on Dec. 29, 2023 signed a peace accord with the central and Assam governments in Delhi. (PTI Photo)

Wasbir Hussain | Will Ulfa accord really bring peace to Assam?

The Ulfa accord may have ended the insurgency for its 700-odd cadres who have been living in designated camps

06 Jan 2024 12:29 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Modi leads BJP's charge to make gains in South

Modi knows very well that his party has been hopelessly isolated in Tamil Nadu after the AIADMK walked out of the NDA

04 Jan 2024 11:50 PM

People gather at the site of an explosion in the city of Kerman, about 510 miles (820 kilometres) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. Two bombs exploded Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Iranian officials said, as the Middle East remains on edge over Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. AP/PT

AA Edit | Iran blasts raise global tension

The twin blasts seemed to carry the signature of domestic terrorism of the Sunni kind, suspected to be the IS taking a hand

04 Jan 2024 11:44 PM

An e-rickshaw near the entry gate of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple during a cold and foggy winter morning, in Ayodhya, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav)

AA Edit | In 2024, Bharat will be defined by a quest for Ram, peace, jobs

India will look forward to January 22, 2024, with perhaps the same zeal, same optimism and a sense of history as August 15, 1947.

02 Jan 2024 12:51 AM

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma with a member of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) during signing of a peace accord between ULFA and the central and Assam governments, in New Delhi, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. (PTI Photo/Arun Sharma)

AA Edit | Ulfa pact must be broader for lasting peace in Assam

All the stakeholders in the deal have expressed the hope it will lead to a new dawn for the people of Assam.

01 Jan 2024 12:05 AM

Indian batter Richa Ghosh reacts after being dismissed during the second ODI match between India Women and Australia Women, at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023. (PTI Photo/Shashank Parade)

DC Edit | 2023: Triple disappointment for Team India

The Australians outthought and outplayed the Indians in two finals

01 Jan 2024 12:05 AM

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (PTI File Image)

AA Edit | Can Rahul’s Nyay Yatra arrest the Modi surge?

During the Nyay Yatra, Rahul Gandhi will use a hybrid model of travelling both by bus and foot, and will cover 85 districts in 14 states.

30 Dec 2023 2:05 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. (PTI File Image)

AA Edit | Good news from Qatar

India’s intervention in the case at country level and then again at the highest level when Modi met the Emir of Qatar at the climate summit in Dubai

30 Dec 2023 2:01 AM

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. (PTI File Image)

AA Edit | Rajnath advice to Army to avoid ‘mistakes’ welcome

It is not quite normal for the powers-that-be to acknowledge publicly even the possibility of troops going wrong.

28 Dec 2023 11:40 PM

In this October 2016 file photo, DMDK led by actor Vijayakanth with others at the alliance conference in Mamandur near Chengalpattu. DMDK founder-leader and popular yesteryear Tamil actor Vijayakanth passed away on Thursday following illness. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Adieu Vijayakanth, TN’s large-hearted actor-politician

After a stirring role as a forest officer who helped hunt down the sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, Vijayakanth became “Captain”.

28 Dec 2023 11:37 PM

Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Pande during a visit to review the security situation in the Poonch sector, Monday, Dec. 25, 2023. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Welcome step by Army to act over deaths in custody

Some media outlets reported that a video has purportedly been circulated alleging custodial torture.

26 Dec 2023 11:56 PM

AA Edit | Will BJP win Christian votes?

The Christian community is peeved with the Union government and the BJP for many reasons

26 Dec 2023 11:52 PM

Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister K Ponmudy. (PTI File Image)

AA Edit | TN minister’s conviction a wake-up call for polity

A wide range of politicians of different hues have been accused of amassing wealth much beyond their known source of income over the years

22 Dec 2023 11:18 PM

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