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Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan

AA Edit | Kerala goes for the digital divide

K-FON project will go a long way in bridging the digital divide and ensure equal opportunity to all citizens

8 Jun 2023 12:20 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually addresses party leaders and workers on the occasion of BJP Sthapna Diwas (Foundation Day), in New Delhi (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | BJP back to business of prepping for polls

Going beyond the defeat in Karnataka, the party has decided to go all out in pursuing its goals of strengthening its...

8 Jun 2023 12:15 AM IST

File photo of rescue operation following an accident involving Coromandel Express, Bengaluru-Howrah Express and a goods train, in Balasore district, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | While modernising infra, let's focus on upkeep...

As we inch towards 2024 and the next general election, no surprise that even a deadly train wreck is fodder for...

8 Jun 2023 12:00 AM IST

The government must realise that the country earned global notoriety by imposing Internet shutdown 84 times in 2022, the highest for a nation. (Representational Image)

AA Edit | Manipur's Net shutdown is excessive and uncalled for

The SC had in 2020 ruled that indefinite shutdown of Internet is curtailment of fundamental rights, an abuse of power...

7 Jun 2023 12:10 AM IST

Mr Kumar was very particular, and reportedly told all the parties, and in particular emphasised it to the Congress Party, that he wanted only heads of the parties to be in attendance. (ANI)

AA Edit | Patna meet delay to hurt Opposition

If Nitish cannot make a small compromise even on the format of the meeting, neither is the Cong keen to go out of its...

7 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during Prime Ministers Questions in the House of Commons, London. File Photo: AP/PTI

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Rishi, Suella fuel outsider' fears to remain in...

The spectacle of two ethnic Indian politicians swearing to keep out foreign migrants isn't modern Britain's only...

7 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

Arun Kumar Sinha. (Photo: Twitter)

Dilip Cherian | SPG chief put on a curious contractual rollercoaster

The corrected' order ensures Mr Sinha's continued regular service for one year but failed to specify that it superseded...

7 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

A man guides a raft through a polluted canal littered with plastic bags and other garbage in Mumbai, India. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Cut use of plastics, save earth

The nature, intensity, impact and urgency of the issue have changed over the decades

6 Jun 2023 12:20 AM IST

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AA Edit | It's time to scrap sedition law, not make it harsher

Laws must be brought in to protect the people, and not the government

6 Jun 2023 12:15 AM IST

Source: @JoshiPralhad / Twitter

Aakar Patel | The unreality of Akhand Bharat': What we must do to...

The story explained that Akhand Bharat was a concept espoused by Hindutva nationalists

6 Jun 2023 12:10 AM IST

Members in the Lok Sabha during Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (Sansad TV/PTI Photo)

Mohan Guruswamy | Let's move from unitary state to Union of States

The delimitation exercise now underway will reduce the weightage in Parliament of the states that did better

6 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

The Supreme Court has chosen to make public its reiterated recommendations with regard to certain judges whose appointments the government has been sitting on for over five years now. (Representational Image)

AA Edit | Keep astrology out of courts

Judges and the solicitor general reiterated that astrology is science.

5 Jun 2023 12:30 AM IST