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The J&K media, which has been walking on the razor’s edge for the last several decades, has already registered their strong protest against the new fiat. (Representational Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Help media protect rights

The police can, of course, impose reasonable restrictions, of which the people of J&K and the media there have quite a clear idea

09 Apr 2021 4:56 AM

Narendra Modi shaking hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) at the 10th BRICS summit in Johannesburg. (Photo: PIB)

AA Edit | With Russia, be measured, and keep an open mind

Will India go ahead with the purchase of the S-400 anti-missile defence system from Russia in the face of serious US reservations on this?

09 Apr 2021 4:41 AM

It is clear that there need be no middleman in a government-to-government deal but the latest revelation raises questions about the very claim the government had advanced. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Clear the air on Rafales

The government will have to consider instituting an investigation by a credible agency or even a judicial commission

08 Apr 2021 4:28 AM

An elevated inflation rate is also a cause of concern for the RBI, though it has decided to accord priority to economic growth in the near future. (AA file Photo)

AA Edit | Nurture is the best policy, but watch out for inflation

A low-interest rate regime is considered a key weapon to revive consumer demand and induce normalcy in the economy

08 Apr 2021 4:17 AM

Even if Mr Deshmukh had contemplated to quit, his party chief Sharad Pawar made his continuance a matter of prestige for the alliance government headed by Shiv Sena leader Udhav Thackeray. (Twitter)

AA Edit | Deshmukh: Will probe be fair?

It is clear that in a coalition government, relying heavily on NCP support, Mr Thackeray was not free to sack the home minister

07 Apr 2021 9:01 AM

The government must address the production and supply bottlenecks and ensure that the inoculation programme becomes one of the massive healthcare movements India has ever seen. (AFP file PTI)

AA Edit | Ban all large gatherings, give everyone vaccines

It should consult all stakeholders and come to a consensus on banning every event that has the potential to become a super spreader

07 Apr 2021 7:37 AM

Starting as an anti-hero, he moved up the ladder step by step to touch the pinnacle of stardom with absolute grace. (PTI file photo)

AA Edit | Right honour, wrong timing

The time chosen by the BJP government to announce a momentous decision like this was monumentally flawed

03 Apr 2021 8:26 AM

CPM leader and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, whose photograph is on right, addresses an election campaign wearing a mask in Kochi, on March 27, 2021. The southern state goes to polls on April 6 to elect members to its state legislature. (AP/R S Iyer)

AA Edit | South India is different: Hopes rest on Left, DMK

The Dravidian major DMK has similarly reduced the seats for the Congress in its alliance of Tamil forces aiming to recapture Fort St George

03 Apr 2021 8:19 AM

The fact that a probe has been ordered itself brings into focus the widely held view that the ruling party at the Centre had been playing toppling games through which non-BJP governments were targeted and brought down. (Representational image: PTI file photo)

AA Edit | DC Edit | K’taka: ‘Lotus’ probe welcome

This is a setback for the BJP as well as its Karnataka CM B.S. Yediyurappa who was charged with engineering the collapse of the government

02 Apr 2021 8:55 AM

The plan was jettisoned overnight, but even at the prevailing rates of interest for small savings, the ordinary householder is eking out a hard living. (Representational image: PTI)

AA Edit | Small savings U-turn: Bad economics, bizarre optics

The government may have calculated that if the interest rates are pushed down, it can borrow on better terms to meet its needs

02 Apr 2021 8:48 AM

The traditional view that women are unsuited to combat roles may have caused these deep-seated inhibitions about promoting women even when they are otherwise as qualified as men who take up a career in the armed forces. (Representational Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Army’s male bias: Slap on the wrist for now from SC

It is the systemic discrimination that works against women in the Army and Navy that must be dismantled

27 Mar 2021 4:56 AM

The SC said the Facebook post would indicate that the editor’s agony was directed against the apathy shown by the Meghalaya CM, the DGP and the Dorbal Shnong (the local tribal council) in not taking action against the culprits. (Photo: Facebook @Patricia Mukhim).

AA Edit | Free speech: A morality tale

It was refreshing to find the Supreme Court last Thursday quash an FIR against Shillong Times editor Patricia Mukhim

27 Mar 2021 4:17 AM

The honourable body would have done greater justice to the Justice if they had considered making the proceeding as transparent as an example the apex court expects from other institutions and lesser mortals. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Welcome Justice Ramana

SC has also wisely rejected a complaint by the AP CM, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, against Ramana in a case relating to the Amaravati land scam

26 Mar 2021 4:47 AM

MLAs of Opposition parties, men and women, were dragged on the ground by the police who had been called in. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Calling the cops on Opp.? Bihar ruckus probe must

In light of this, what was witnessed in the Bihar Assembly last Tuesday can only fill every Indian with shame

26 Mar 2021 4:35 AM

The government must further strengthen the inoculation programme and at the same time strictly impose Covid-appropriate protocol across the country. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Shot eligibility expansion route out of return wave

The decision to open up the vaccination programme and include all those who are aged 45 years and above is a welcome move

25 Mar 2021 4:50 AM

The fact remains that New Delhi voted thus only with an eye on the Tamil Nadu voter rather than the empathetic first principles in favour of a people residing in northern Sri Lanka who are discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Lanka: A lost opportunity

In abstaining from the vote on the UNHC resolution against Sri Lanka, India may have been attempting to find a pragmatic balance

25 Mar 2021 4:06 AM

The Union government must use technology to the optimum to ensure that vaccine wastage is brought to a minimum. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Rural surge scary, act now to stop second Covid wave

While the first phase of Covid wave was in the metros and big cities of the country, the recent surge is reported from rural areas, too

19 Mar 2021 4:56 AM

A diverse, multiracial society like America must own up that it has a huge racial problem in which visibly successful migrants are increasingly the victims of racial abuse, harassment and violent hate crimes. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Guns, racism & crime in US

As an epidemic, hate crime is on the rise in the USA, its graph exploding exponentially since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic

19 Mar 2021 4:12 AM

China's insistence that those who apply for a visa should have inoculated themselves with a Chinese-made vaccine defies logic and scientific principles, and reflects a total ignorance about the objective realities about the pandemic situation in the world. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | China’s Catch-22 on vaccine

Vaccination for all must be a universal goal at present, and every nation, including China, should be part of it

18 Mar 2021 4:46 AM

The proposed change in law introduced by the Modi government will effectively render the Arvind Kejriwal government superfluous, practically reducing the present Delhi Assembly — which was brought into existence in 1993 under the NCT Act- to a nullity. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Why does Centre want a 'viceroy' to run Delhi?

Modi govt plans to constitutionally aggrandise the office of the lieutenant governor of Delhi at the expense of the elected CM of the UT

18 Mar 2021 4:20 AM

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