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From left, silver medalists India's Rajeshwari Kumari, Manisha Keer and Preeti Rajak celebrate on the podium during the awards ceremony for the Shooting Trap Team Women competitions of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. (AP/PTI)

AA Edit | Shooting stars strike gold

Extraordinarily, shooting has contributed more than half of India's gold medals so far.

02 Oct 2023 12:08 AM

Renowned agricultural scientist and the driving force behind the nation's 'Green Revolution,' MS Swaminathan. (PTI File Photo)

AA Edit | Hero of the Green Revolution

Swaminathan courted the limelight and sought to dispel doubts about science and its multifaceted applications in farming

30 Sep 2023 12:23 AM

Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar. (Jack TAYLOR / AFP)

AA Edit | Canada conflict a blip on India’s diplomatic radar

The foreign minister also pointed out that Ottawa had been told by New Delhi that India does not support extra-territorial killings

30 Sep 2023 12:05 AM

Security personnel stand guard 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 | Government mute as Manipur still bleeds and burns

It remains incomprehensible how the mighty Indian State stands as a mute victim when a part of it has been bleeding for so long

29 Sep 2023 12:14 AM

AA Edit | Waheeda epitomises era of grace

Waheeda Rehman has won the Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, and was personally congratulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

29 Sep 2023 12:14 AM

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

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