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AA Edit | SC's relook at PMLA provisions welcome

Section45 is a drastic provision that turns on its head the presumption of innocence which is fundamental to a person accused of any offence

28 Sep 2023 12:04 AM

Imphal: Security personnel fire tear gas shells as students protest against the "killing" of two missing students by unknown miscreants and demand peace in Manipur, Imphal, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Manipur burning, fix the mess

One of the core issues lies around whether chief minister N. Biren Singh’s regime is biased towards the majority Meiteis.

28 Sep 2023 12:04 AM

A formal alliance that became possible only after Jaya’s death — she had kept the BJP out in 2016 when she proved her point about not mixing ideologies — is now ended. (File Image: PTI)

AA Edit | As they part ways, BJP to lose more than AIADMK

The fact remains that national parties have for decades been reduced to a secondary status in Tamil Nadu

27 Sep 2023 12:00 AM

Rahul Gandhi has batted for a reasonably strongly supported viewpoint of a large number of people in demanding a caste census. (Image: PTI)

AA Edit | Go ahead with caste census

We cannot manage what we cannot measure

27 Sep 2023 12:00 AM

AA Edit | Unparliamentary utterances

The terminology BJP member Ramesh Bidhuri used against BSP’s Danish Ali must shock all those who believe in Parliament and its businesses.

26 Sep 2023 12:29 AM

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. (Image: PTI)

AA Edit | In US, India targets West for its ‘double standards’

Having successfully established strategic autonomy as foreign policy, India may have felt emboldened to speak a few home truths

26 Sep 2023 12:22 AM

Broadband Internet was restored partially with severe conditions on June 25. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Manipur Net back, hopes rise

It is the people, and only the people, who were made to pay the price.

25 Sep 2023 12:05 AM

India's Sathiyan Gnanasekaran in action against Korea's Park Ganghyeon during team quarterfinal match of table tennis at the 19th Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. (PTI Photo/Shailendra Bhojak)

AA Edit | Asian Games: India puts sport above politics

Geopolitics can never be far from sport, not in an Asian setting, what with China needing to exhibit its social and political potency.

25 Sep 2023 12:05 AM

Of course, democracy means a person equals a vote. However, if with greater population — and the states of UP, Bihar and West Bengal together might represent a third of the country — these states deserve greater political say, leaving the South behind for having developed better would create a big problem for the country in the future. (Representational Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Delimitation riddle stumps all; South India in fear grip

All the gainers of delimitation might well be those states that have fared poorly in their social and economic development endeavours

23 Sep 2023 12:46 AM

Indian flag seen flying at the High Commission of India in Ottawa, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP)

AA Edit | Don’t hurt Indians in Canada

Trudeau has doubled down on his seemingly outlandish claim on extra-territorial killing by agents acting on behalf of India

23 Sep 2023 12:14 AM

The rationale for reservation for a category of people is the failure of a society to ensure social justice for the various categories of people. (PTI File Photo)

AA Edit | Demand for OBC quota in LS, Assemblies will grow

The Constitution of India started with a promise of securing for all citizens social, economic and political justice.

22 Sep 2023 12:02 AM

The first is the rising cost of crude oil, all set to breach the psychological $100 a barrel of Brent mark. (AP File Image)

AA Edit | Fuel, US Fed: Headwinds to economy

The cause for worry comes from other factors that will come into play despite India’s comfortable position as a big and growing oil consumer

22 Sep 2023 12:00 AM

Union Home Minister Amit Shah comes out after the Women's Reservation Bill was passed in Lok Sabha during the Special session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav)

AA Edit | Implement women’s bill quickly

There would be a minimum addition of 100 Lok Sabha seats from the current 78 MPs in the House of 543 if the quota is enforced.

21 Sep 2023 12:05 AM

On Monday, Sept. 18, Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat as it investigates what Trudeau called credible allegations that India‚Äôs government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist. Trudeau told Parliament that he brought up the slaying with Modi at the G-20. AP/PTI

AA Edit | Canada’s claims far-fetched: Is it barking up wrong tree?

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being pilloried as being singularly responsible for taking the relationship to the rocks.

21 Sep 2023 12:05 AM

Parliamentarians enter the new Parliament building, in New Delhi, on Tuesday, (Image: PTI)

AA Edit | New Parliament to match aspirations of rising India

A new Parliament is an excellent icon, an inspiration to our democracy, worthy of welcoming and cheering

20 Sep 2023 12:00 AM

Indian pace bowler Mohammed Siraj. (Image: PTI)

AA Edit | Team India hits form at right time

A great test lies ahead of them

20 Sep 2023 12:00 AM

Whom the people see as most credible remains to be seen, but for once, no one was founded wanting in their effort to stake a claim to Sardar Patel’s legacy, and to the historic significance of the day. (Representational Image: DC)

AA Edit | Sept. 17 symbolism fires up T’gana’s political contours

The BJP has, for the last several years, been upping the ante

18 Sep 2023 12:00 AM

The Congress must feel that it is better placed now after a democratic CWC exercise, the holding of a rally to stress its pubic support in a state that used to be a bellwether of national politics and its understanding of the role it is to play in INDIA bloc and, for that matter, in India. (Image:R. Pavan)

AA Edit | Congress gets more purposeful

The party’s voice in pointing out the fault lines in national governance — inflation, jobs, horrific clashes in Manipur

18 Sep 2023 12:00 AM

Artists perform traditional music during the gala dinner hosted by the President Droupadi Murmu. (File Image: PTI)

AA Edit | Is Sukhu cozying up to BJP now? T’gana: Spotlight on Kharge story

Congress strategists believe that highlighting Mr Kharge’s story would benefit the party in the poll-bound states

17 Sep 2023 12:00 AM

AA Edit | Fix Mumbai airport constraints

The problem for Mumbai is the completion of the airport in Navi Mumbai as a multi-modal facility with two runways & serve 90 mn passengers

16 Sep 2023 12:05 AM

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