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SpiceJet had approached the DGCA for permission since the rest for the pilots was not in a suitable environment as mandated by Indias Civil Aviation Regulations (CAR). (Representational Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | After mid-air shock, India's aviation in need of a reboot

The civil aviation sector, with a Jyotiraditya Scindia as its ministerial head, can be rebooted to make it a flagship of...

4 May 2022 12:23 AM IST

Students wearing facemasks sit in a classroom after their school was reopened in Colombo, Sri Lanka. AFP Photo

Devi Kar | Schooling after Covid-19: What appears normal is not always...

Almost two years of disuse has led to multiple problems of different kinds

4 May 2022 12:20 AM IST

GST collections in July fall 14% due to COVID lockdown. (Photo-ANI)

AA Edit | Economy on the upswing?

The only concern for the economic policymakers is dealing with inflation, which has been stoked by global supply-side...

3 May 2022 7:33 AM IST

A lot of water has flown under the bridge since Ram Nath Kovind won the last Presidential elections with a near two-thirds majority against the Congress-led Opposition candidate Meira Kumar, in July 2017. (PTI)

AA Edit | Idea of India' battle not compelling for Opposition

In the upcoming Presidential elections in July, politics will reveal all its avatars

3 May 2022 7:21 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP President J P Nadda during the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting, at Ambedkar International Centre, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Dec 7, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | Where the BJP has succeeded, over its 2 terms from 2014,...

It appears to be the case that the BJP has shifted its focus from the economy to its primary social agenda

3 May 2022 12:06 AM IST

Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi chairs the Congress Working Committee meeting, in New Delhi, Sunday, March 13, 2022. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is also seen. (PTI/Kamal Singh)

Sanjay Kumar | Congress' unwillingness to change is its basic problem

The failure of talks between the Congress and PK, not just once but twice, has also damaged the party's image

3 May 2022 12:00 AM IST

Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana. (Photo:PTI)

AA Edit | Heed CJI: Failure to enforce court orders worrying trend

Officials tend to ignore court orders, forcing citizens and institutions to move court with contempt petitions

2 May 2022 12:53 AM IST

The climate is getting to be such as to be generally unhealthy for all people and especially dangerous for the vulnerable like very young children, people with chronic health conditions, the old and the poor. (Representational Image/ PTI)

AA Edit | Heatwave: Dire days ahead

There have been sufficient signs already to warn people of what may be in store

2 May 2022 12:49 AM IST

Freebies become the fig leaf that corrupt politicians and political parties use to cover their sins of omission and commission while seeking electoral support. (Representational Image/ AP)

Sanjaya Baru | Rising freebies: The fiscal price of political failures

When political parties promise free television sets, kitchenware and suchlike, they are using the taxpayer's money to...

2 May 2022 12:41 AM IST

Heres how they see us brownies: cheap, efficient, trouble-free labour.(Representational Image/ DC)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | White lies, brown noses

No one is lying sleepless and chanting the Hanuman Chalisa over our skyrocketing economic, military, yogic, and, above...

1 May 2022 2:42 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal (PTI)

Anita Katyal | PK fiasco dents Priyanka image; Kejriwal calling shots...

Kejriwal and Bhagwant Singh recently signed an agreement to enable the 2 state governments to cooperate in various...

1 May 2022 2:03 AM IST

Justice Prateek Jalan ordered CBSE to consider as representation a petition by Deepa Joseph, mother of a Class 10 student studying in a CBSE affiliated school here, who had paid Rs 2,100 as examination fee. (PTI Photo)

Pavan K. Varma | Urdu by any other faith sounds just as sweet

It is my opinion that our educational content is still considerably trapped in the colonial legacy

1 May 2022 1:21 AM IST