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The honest way of going about this important issue dealing with the challenges of agriculture is to tell the truth that the government is unable to pay the rising MSP bill. (PTI/Kamal Kishore)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | PM's arguments on farm laws seem deeply...

The government is now telling a lie -- that farmers will get a better deal outside the mandi, which is not the case over...

17 Feb 2021 7:18 AM IST

Members of various social organisation display placards during a protest against the arrest of climate activist Disha Ravi, in Bengaluru on February 15, 2021. (PTI /Shailendra Bhojak)

AA Edit | 21-year activist's arrest is a blot on India's democracy

Taking unlawful actions against a young woman barely out of her teens can backfire

16 Feb 2021 8:41 AM IST

Evidence has it that Mr Trump did little to act as legislators in the joint session of Congress at Capitol Hill and his own vice-president, Mike Pence, were scared for their lives. (AP file photo/Alex Brandon)

AA Edit | Trump escapes conviction

What we have to fear is the Trump legacy of alternative facts, conspiracy theories and brazen thuggery

16 Feb 2021 7:51 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at Lok Sabha during the Budget Session of the Parliament, in New Delhi, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. (LSTV/PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | Vital areas in kids' health left ignored in Budget 2021

Poshan Abhiyan, the flagship programme meant to improve nutritional outcomes by 2022, was also damaged

16 Feb 2021 7:27 AM IST

Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and some other parts of the country have been camping at several Delhi border points since November 28, demanding repeal of the farm laws, a legal guarantee on minimum support price for their crops and other two issues. (Photo:PTI)

Sriram Karri | How PM can win hearts, keep bills, end protests

In the next many days, on any day of his choosing, Mr Modi should just walk into a protest site and spend several hours

16 Feb 2021 7:08 AM IST

Kishwar Desai | Darcy zest adds zing to V-week; Suella's baby may lead...

Darcy, in the novel, turned out to be a perfect lover and so perhaps we can hope for warmer days as the sun now is...

15 Feb 2021 4:52 AM IST

Indias ability to negotiate is severely constricted owing to its diminished Net National Power over the past 80 months of the NDA/BJP rule. (Photo:AP)

Manish Tewari | A bad deal

The Sino-Indian disengagement deal in Eastern Ladakh is a bad deal

15 Feb 2021 4:47 AM IST

Citizens who gave up the solace of their homes to sit outdoors on protest through the harshest Delhi winter in decades were, in fact, undertaking an extraordinary act on Gandhian lines, and this was noted around the world. (Photo:PTI)

AA Edit | Dissent circumscribed

The CAA is a law that strikes at the root of the basic precepts of citizenship as per the Constitution

15 Feb 2021 4:42 AM IST

In his petition, Mr Wilson has cited a report by a US forensic audit firm that his computer was accessed by outsiders who planted documents in it, which led to his arrest in June 2018.

AA Edit | Bhima-Koregaon: Probe malware report urgently

The court must seriously and expeditiously consider Mr Wilson's plea for a special investigation into the audit report

15 Feb 2021 4:26 AM IST

The Ladakh de-escalation may just be both sides stepping back, having tested each others red lines , to try rebuilding trust and resume the usual path of cooperation, competition and calibrated friction. (Representational Photo: AFP)

K.C. Singh | De-escalation at LAC: Is a real solution in sight?

It is unimaginable that a nationalist Indian government will concede Chinese hegemony

14 Feb 2021 4:58 AM IST

For citizens, at the receiving end of the pipe, what matters most is the efficiency and effectiveness of the last-mile expenditure management by the state governments. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | A bottom-up view of the annual Budget

Despite the hoopla around the Union government's Budget, for citizens, allocations in their state budgets matter more

14 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

Concrete collaborations are, and will be, undoubtedly difficult, they will face obstacles, which in the end can only help deepen bilateral relations. (Photo: AP)

Claude Arpi | Trusty old allies India, France can bond over big...

What is required for France and India is to take their relations to the next level

14 Feb 2021 4:14 AM IST