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AA Edit | New rules, old questions

The new Congressmen and women would be habitual wearers of authentic Khadi and would not practise social discrimination or inequality

25 Oct 2021 3:51 AM

Underlying the fragility of the security situation, the home minister’s arrival was preceded by the detention or arrest of around one thousand young people. (PTI)

AA Edit | Shah's presence in J&K can't hide security mess

Government claims as regards terrorism are inconsistent with reality, and are not new

25 Oct 2021 2:03 AM

At a time when Sri Lanka is facing a severe economic crunch and struggling even to pay for food imports, India could make a grand gesture by giving the nod to a request for a $500 million line of credit for them to be able to pay for fuel imports. Representational Image. (DC File Image)

AA Edit | Be friend in need to Colombo

A historic turn of events came with the ending of the war with the Liberation Tigers in 2009 but India has lost much ground since

22 Oct 2021 3:49 AM

Floods and landslides have become nature’s habit in recent times and this is entirely due to plain disregard of recommendations of a series of expert committees set up by the government itself or by the Supreme-Court, typically after a disaster has struck. Representational Image. (PTI)

AA Edit | Govt put greed over need, brace for more disasters

Aerial surveys ministers are plain political gimmicks when what is needed is resolve to preserve fragile ecological structures

22 Oct 2021 3:08 AM

Congress delegation led by Rahul Gandhi calling on President Ramnath Kovind with demands that support the cause of the farmers. (PTI)

AA Edit | Lakhimpur: Backlash gives Opp. a fighting chance

All sorts of organisational preparations have commenced, keeping the poll in mind

15 Oct 2021 12:38 AM

There is less reason to worry on the count of increased air travel overly affecting the pandemic situation as the aviation sector is one that has maintained high standards in following pandemic protocols. Representational Image. (AFP)

AA Edit | Ready for post-Covid takeoff

Domestic air passenger traffic had already risen 74 per cent annually and three per cent sequentially to 6.9 million passengers in September

15 Oct 2021 12:38 AM

DMK managed to send across the message that it had indeed done a magnificent job. (Photo: PTI/File)

AA Edit | DMK: Great expectations

The overwhelming victory of DMK in the rural body elections is a sign of the great expectations

14 Oct 2021 7:34 AM

A health worker carries vials of the Covaxin vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus at a health centre in New Dehi. (Photo: AFP/File)

AA Edit | Validation glimmer for Covaxin, hope for parents

The two-dose vaccine will be administered with a gap of 28 days

14 Oct 2021 7:26 AM

Ali Babar Patra, the 19-year-old surrendered during a encounter-infiltration operation by the army in Uri sector on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. (PTI)

DC Edit | Terrorist capture exposes Pak

It is not often that these trained and highly motivated conduits of terror are captured alive

30 Sep 2021 2:40 AM

Mr Kumar and Mr Mevani have not turned to the Congress drawn by its leadership, although many Indians regard Rahul Gandhi, for all his shortcomings that are on view, as the sole committed ideological opponent of the current dispensation at the highest political levels. (PTI)

AA Edit | Good riddance to Sidhu; but don’t stifle Mevani, Kanhaiya

The choice of senior personnel, and selection of party candidates for elections in some states, has caused discontent among Congress folk

30 Sep 2021 2:20 AM

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma. (Photo:Twitter)

AA Edit | Himanta’s scaremongering

Himanta Biswa Sarma said Assam was on the way to becoming the next Kashmir. What exactly does he mean?

23 Sep 2021 2:21 AM

AA Edit | UNGA: Words reassuring but actions don’t add up

Warning from Antonio Guterres that the world faces the greatest cascade of crises in our lifetime, was accurate enough to trigger concern

23 Sep 2021 1:19 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AFP Photo)

AA Edit | Johnson eyes re-election

Hints of a Tory meritocracy are to be seen as two women and two from ethnic minorities are in four seats of power

17 Sep 2021 3:17 AM

As the Supreme Court barred any change in the definition of AGR retrospectively, the government has decided to exclude non-telecom revenues from the definition of AGR in future. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Telecom relief package comes in nick of time

The most prominent decision taken by the Cabinet is a moratorium on the spectrum and AGR payments up to four years from October 2021

17 Sep 2021 3:15 AM

Several historians, conservationists and people who have an idea of India’s Independence struggle are appalled by the new-look Jallianwala Bagh. (Photo: Pinterest)

AA Edit | Preserve, don’t erase, heritage

It is understood that the Gujarat government is going ahead with a massive plan to 'renovate' the Sabarmati Ashram

03 Sep 2021 2:34 AM

The anxieties regarding exposing children to the epidemic will never be doused easily. (PTI File Photo)

AA Edit | Feasibility, agility key to successful school return

The threat from the virus may never fully recede, which means that education cannot be held up forever

03 Sep 2021 1:26 AM

What’s likely to impart energy on the ground to an Opposition line-up is the presence of prominent non-Congress chief ministers at the discussion. Representational Image. (Twitter)

AA Edit | Opp. grouping’s 1st test of unity

Joint protests have proved a good mobilising tool for decades if the demands being raised connect with the people

23 Aug 2021 4:19 AM

The manufacturers plan to make one crore doses a month and will make available five crore doses by the year-end. (Twitter)

AA Edit | 3-dose jab a breather for govt, hope for the young

The needle-free vaccine has shown an efficacy of 66.6 per cent in a late-stage trial of over 28,000 volunteers nationwide

23 Aug 2021 3:57 AM

A Keralite woman makes 'Pookalam' (flower rangoli) on the occasion of Onam festival. — AFP photo

AA Edit | Caution needed before Onam

As per the data released by the government, 1.77 crore of the 3.54 crore people have got at least one dose of the jab as on Monday

18 Aug 2021 2:55 AM

It is a specious argument that the Centre is now unable to cut duties on fuel because of the legacy issue of oil bonds to be paid for since the UPA government had subsidised fuel to the tune of Rs.1.34 lakh crores. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | High fuel prices point to a much deeper malaise

The revenue in 2020-21 to the union govt from levies on petrol and diesel was Rs 3,89,622 crores, up from Rs 2,39,452 crores in 2019-20

18 Aug 2021 1:52 AM

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