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The distress of migrant workers, gut-wrenchingly captured by this photograph of a child trying to wake its dead mother at a railway station in Bihar, surpassed even the horrors of the coronavirus pandemic itself.

AA Edit | Here's why this government is data shy

If a regime does not bother to gather data, it is careless. If that is willful, it is callous

25 Sept 2020 2:08 PM IST

A member of the Communist Party of India protests against the governments new legislations. (AFP)

AA Edit | New labour codes show government's disdain for workers

Every trade union, including the RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, has opposed the anti-labour provisions

25 Sept 2020 12:59 PM IST

Invest 900k dollars and you get an EB-5.

Investor visa: A way out of the Covid-19 conundrum

Some 14,000 new EB-5 visas to the USA would be available next year, starting October 1

25 Sept 2020 11:33 AM IST

A farmer wearing a face mask listens to a speaker during an anti-government protest in Bengaluru. (AP)

DC Edit | Stop lying that India's Covid response has not been a...

The death of a minister must force the government to do a rethink on its Covid-19 response

25 Sept 2020 2:55 AM IST

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah speaks to the media at Parliament House in New Delhi, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (PTI)

AA Edit | The reality in Kashmir is exactly as Dr Abdullah says it is

There is no stabilising centre left in the Valley now, thanks to communal fanaticism being propagated

25 Sept 2020 12:47 AM IST

Farmers shout slogans as they march to protest against the Union governments agriculture reforms in Amritsar. (AFP)

Parsa | What is PM Modi afraid of?

The prime minister should have used the debate on farm bills to underscore their virtues

24 Sept 2020 9:53 PM IST

Earlier on Wednesday, the Indian Air Force, Army and the civil administration of Arunachal Pradesh started a massive operation to reach the crash site. (Photo: ANI)

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Are we ready for give & take' with China at LAC?

Identifying the border in Arunachal is difficult because the British left large stretches of it without delineation or...

24 Sept 2020 12:22 PM IST

The parliament of India building

DC Edit | Do regulate NGOs, but don't strangle them

The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Act has several crippling provisions

22 Sept 2020 8:34 PM IST

A homeless woman sleeps on a deserted platform of a Lokmanya Tilak train terminus in Mumbai, March 23, 2020. As India expanded its virus-containment measures and halted its lifeblood train network, the federal government warned Monday of strict legal action for those who flout the rules. (AP)

AA Edit | Tackle corona or face the voter's ire

A renewed urgency and a prompter response is the absolute need of the hour

22 Sept 2020 8:07 PM IST

The Central Vista project design (Image: HCP Designs)

Shobhaa De | A monument to a monumental ego

Heritage and history need to be respected, even by those determined to rewrite both

19 Sept 2020 5:32 PM IST

Protesters throw a statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbour, during a Black Lives Matter protest rally, in Bristol, England. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | The politics of erasing Gunga Din

The Black Lives Matter upheaval has resulted in this reappraisal of history

19 Sept 2020 4:41 PM IST

One of the great scholars when it comes to Urdu literature, Gopi Chand Narang, was quoted as saying that, Urdu is not the language of Muslims. If at all there is any language of Muslims, it should be Arabic. Urdu belongs to the composite culture of India. Hindi and Urdu are supplementary and complementary. They are like sisters strengthening each other .

The curious case of Urdu in NEP 2020

NEP 2020 has given birth to apprehensions in the minds of Urdu lovers due to its unique status

18 Sept 2020 7:21 PM IST