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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

What the gruesome incident highlights is there is only a thin red line between sanity and a person flipping to complete madness in which homicidal rage takes over, transforming even the most intelligent person into a senseless killer. (Reprewsentational Image: DC)

AA Edit | CEO turns into son’s killer

There is situational irony in how even an understanding of IT and AI did not point to her a devious path to try and hide her heinous crime

11 Jan 2024 12:00 AM

Only a comprehensive audit of the government on the promises it made before assuming office and after, and the alternative narrative that the Opposition itself has prepared, will give them some space in the imaginations of the people. To develop it will then be its real task. (File Image: DC)

AA Edit | Cong need ‘give and take’ for its alliance to succeed

Whether the party learnt its lessons from the Assembly elections will be reflected in the way it will be negotiating with the others

11 Jan 2024 12:00 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

Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, perceived as “anti-India” and “pro-Chinese”, did some damage control by firing three of his ministerial colleagues. (Image:Twitter)

AA Edit | Maldives: India Shows Soft Power

Every country has a choice of its values, of what it wants to be and how it wants to be perceived but no nation.

09 Jan 2024 12:10 AM

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

With its Aditya-L1, India may have proved the breadth and versatility of its space programme that has led to Isro being marked as a space collaborator for programmes with far bigger budgets like those of Nasa and others. (Image: PTI)

AA Edit | Aditya at L1, a notable scientific achievement

Aditya-L1 will be a milestone even more than a landmark achievement as Indian space exploration raises its sights

08 Jan 2024 12:00 AM

The Supreme Court of India. (File Image: PTI)

AA Edit | Balaji: SC upholds CM’s primacy

The Supreme Court had to remind governors that they hold no veto power over the right of the state legislatures in lawmaking

08 Jan 2024 12:00 AM

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addresses a press conference regarding summons issued to him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the excise policy case, in New Delhi, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Kejriwal saga signals real intent of Central agencies

The ED came into being as part of a global effort to crack down on black money and the proceeds of crime.

06 Jan 2024 12:35 AM

India’s bowler Mohammed Siraj celebrates the wicket of South Africa's batter Aiden Markram during the second day of the second Test match between India and South Africa, at the Newlands Cricket Ground, in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav)

AA Edit | Splendid show by Indian quicks

Indian batsmen may have shone only in patches in the Tests, but they have the capacity to be a force to be reckoned with in all formats.

06 Jan 2024 12:32 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

Oil tankers parked during a protest by truck drivers against a provision in the new penal law on hit-and-run accident cases, at Sipara fuel station in Patna, on Tuesday, (File Photo :PTI )

AA Edit | Win for democracy as truckers get reprieve

Truck drivers went on a nationwide strike against a new law passed by the Central government

04 Jan 2024 12:00 AM

The Supreme Court of India. (File Image: ANI)

AA Edit | Sebi probe must be time-bound

Institutional credibility is paramount in a democracy, whether it is market regulator or the judiciary

04 Jan 2024 12:00 AM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (File Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | A judicial rap for Netanyahu

The Israeli army may have strategically decided to pull some troops from Gaza

03 Jan 2024 12:00 AM

The Congress is suffering the worst crisis of clarity. The BJP has been tom-tomming the Ram temple in Ayodhya as the flavour of the nation in an election season. (File Image:R. Pavan)

AA Edit | Congress needs to talk to allies over agenda, seats

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has been winning elections since 2014 despite several of its allies leaving its fold

03 Jan 2024 12:00 AM

Arvind Panagariya is the chairman of the 16th Finance Commission. (DC File Image)

DC Edit | Panagariya will be a perfect fit

Panagariya fits this bill as he was vocal in pointing out faults in India’s economic policy, including Atmanirbhar Bharat

02 Jan 2024 12:54 AM

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

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