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AA Edit | Breaking up Big Tech

The Internet may not be that much different for users if Facebook were to hive off WhatsApp or Amazon were to divest its...

11 Dec 2020 7:33 AM IST

AA Edit | Democracy and reforms: How much is too much?

Niti Aayog CEO had recently said that 'tough reforms' were difficult in the Indian context because there was 'too much...

10 Dec 2020 12:09 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Boris' fumbling holds lessons for the world

While British waters are much richer in fish than the seas surrounding Europe, British trawlers make their money selling...

10 Dec 2020 12:05 AM IST

Leher Sethi | Is air pollution a greater pandemic than coronavirus?

As a parent, I dread Delhi winters, not just because of the cold, but because of the terrible pollution in the air

10 Dec 2020 12:01 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Babus angered by Haryana IAS cadre post appointments

Haryana IAS officer and well-known whistleblower Ashok Khemka has entered the fray with his take on the issue

9 Dec 2020 8:01 PM IST

Anand K. Sahay | At the Singhu border: An agitation like none other

Is it a farmers' 'sit-in' when the protest stretches over many invisible miles, or is it the whole society marching on...

9 Dec 2020 7:57 PM IST

Brahmaputra River (Photo: Youtube)

Mohan Guruswamy | Worry on Brahmaputra waters seems misplaced

A published paper estimates that the utilisable water of the Brahmaputra system is just four percent of the total...

8 Dec 2020 9:16 AM IST

Farmers during their Delhi Chalo protest march against the new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi, Sunday, December 6 (PTI/Manvender Vashist)

Aakar Patel | Will Centre be forced to give in to the farmers?

Notice the similarities between the farmers' movement and the protests across the country against the citizenship...

8 Dec 2020 8:39 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi being briefed during a visit to the Bharat Biotech facility to review the development of indigenous COVID-19 vaccine candidate Covaxin, on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Saturday, November 28 (PTI)

AA Edit | Govt needs to do more to push vaccine awareness

It looks like the government has taken one area for granted -- public awareness about the vaccine

8 Dec 2020 7:26 AM IST

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks on November job numbers at the Queen theater on December 4, Wilmington, Delaware. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Manish Tewari | Biden in Afghanistan

Biden inherits. In a piece in the Foreign Affairs magazine in spring, Biden stated: It is past time to end the forever...

7 Dec 2020 9:39 AM IST

An NHS pharmacy technician simulates the preparation of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, during a staff training session ahead of the vaccines rollout next week, at the Royal Free Hospital in London on December 4. (Yui Mok / POOL / AFP)

Kishwar Desai | After vax first, will lucky Boris' swing Brexit deal?

The triumph of UK being first in the world among the vaxxers' did not go down well with everyone

7 Dec 2020 8:59 AM IST

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

7 Dec 2020 7:23 AM IST