Asian Age Editorial

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AA Edit | Crack down on hate speech

Supreme Court's move is well-intented but its execution on ground is doubtful

24 Oct 2022 9:18 AM

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

AA Edit | Xi is the new Mao, China tilts to totalitarian state

Xi's rise likely to complicate China's relations with the West

24 Oct 2022 9:14 AM

Members of the FBI's Evidence Response Team Unit investigate in downtown Highland Park, Ill., the day after a deadly mass shooting on Tuesday, July 5, 2022. (Ashlee Rezin /Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

AA Edit | Have guns, will shoot

In a gun-worshipping nation with more weapons than people, a gun has historically symbolised masculinity and power

06 Jul 2022 7:50 AM

Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde with rebel Shiv Sena MLAs during the Special session of Maharashtra Assembly, at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai. (PTI Photo/Kunal Patil)

AA Edit | Maha crisis not yet over, wait until next act starts

Maha has witnessed the sight of parties dumping their partners while chasing power and then going back after the November 2019 elections

06 Jul 2022 7:41 AM

Uddhav Thackeray and Rashmi Thackeray (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Nepotism behind Shinde rise

Rebellion is the last hope of democracy within political parties

25 Jun 2022 7:48 AM

A policeman fires in the air to disperse people protesting over controversial remarks made by two now-suspended BJP leaders about Prophet Mohammad, in Ranchi. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Violent protests expose all that’s wrong with India

Hate speech aimed at hurting religious sentiments have no place in a plural nation with democratic and secular credentials

14 Jun 2022 7:23 AM

Law enforcement personnel walk outside Uvalde High School after shooting a was reported at Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, Texas. (William Luther/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

AA Edit | US gun control: Some progress

Gun control law may not get Senate nod

14 Jun 2022 7:12 AM

Palestinians run from sound grenades thrown by Israeli police in front of the Dome of the Rock in the al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem, Friday, May 21, 202, as a cease-fire took effect between Hamas and Israel after a 11-day war. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

AA Edit | Israel’s Gaza war ends, but will peace endure?

The ultimate solution lies in the two-State principle granting recognition to a homeland for the Palestinian people

22 May 2021 2:15 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

Farmers carry an effigy during their ongoing 'Delhi Chalo' agitation against the new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi on Sunday, December 6 (PTI/Manvender Vashist)

AA Edit | To end farm stir, PM must signal shift in govt stand

If the proposed strike is met with repression in the smallest degree, the next meeting is unlikely to take place

07 Dec 2020 7:23 AM

Videograb from the controversial Tanishq ad.

AA Edit | An unfortunate climbdown

This particular type of Hindutva 'cancel culture' badly hurts the image of the country and its soft power around the world

15 Oct 2020 10:31 AM

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