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A farmer plows his field with the help of a tractor before planting paddy saplings, at a village on the outskirt of Amritsar. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Rural jobs scheme an unmissable solution

The scheme, introduced by the first UPA government in 2005, guaranteesmanual work to every adult in rural India for at...

9 Jun 2020 8:13 PM IST

In this file photo taken on August 29, 2019 a Changpa nomad shepherd puts pashmina goats out to pasture near Korzok village in the Leh district of Ladakh. AP Photo

Aakar Patel | China's long-term game: What does it really want?

From May, China has physically stopped Indian patrols from proceeding beyond Finger 4, effectively giving China full...

9 Jun 2020 4:57 PM IST

Cities across Europe and elsewhere in the world filled with demonstrations decrying racism in America. AFP Photp

Maura Moynihan | US in turmoil: Is China instigating the violence?

The rapid escalation of violence in recent days has the American media focused mainly on the militarisation of the...

8 Jun 2020 6:35 PM IST

The lockdown is beginning to splinter with the cabinet issuing confusing instructions to citizens. AFP Photo

Kishwar Desai | Boris Johnson loses clout in Parliament

Having survived Covid, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson is going through an annihilation by politics

8 Jun 2020 6:18 PM IST

The likes of Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma were fortunate not to have been booked because of the existence of the same kind of double standard. AP Photo

AA Edit | Double standards and how!

The criminalisation of every protest staged by aggrieved Indians is clear in all dissent being viewed as a potential law...

8 Jun 2020 5:54 PM IST

Most experts agree that the first such move, the national lockdown, indeed helped but the government did little to make use of the opportunity to prepare the nation for a successful engagement with the virus later on. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Centre can't stand by and watch at this critical hour

There are no immediate chances of the numbers going down what with the Union government allowing opening of more social...

8 Jun 2020 5:32 PM IST

Volunteers wearing protective suits conduct thermal tests at Dharavi, during the fifth phase of the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Mumbai. PTI Photo

Nilofar Suhrawardy | Covid paranoia, and some cogitations

Frankly, seeing everyone in almost same type and colour of masks is just making this lockdown phase more uninteresting

7 Jun 2020 5:52 PM IST

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar

Waqyanawis | What got Sharad's tongue when it came to PM-Cares?

Opposition parties constantly attack the opacity of PM-Cares fund but the joint Opposition meeting didn't have any...

7 Jun 2020 5:13 PM IST

In 2002, a pogrom in Gujarat when the Prime Minister was heading the state government there claimed over 1,000 Muslim lives. The perpetrators were not punished. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Muslim lives matter, but saying so will cost you

As the Black Lives Matter movement rages, ordinary Indian citizens have been silent in the face of glaring injustice...

6 Jun 2020 7:29 PM IST

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Ghosts of pandemics present and past

Lockdown hasn't brought any more ghosting into my life than I was already subjected to as a freelance writer

6 Jun 2020 7:16 PM IST

In this file photo taken on May 27, 2020 policemen and onlookers stand near a dead pregnant wild elephant retrieved after it strayed into a village and ate an explosive-filled fruit, on the banks of the Velliyar River in Palakkad district of Kerala state. AFP Photo

AA Edit | No missed opportunity

There was no dearth of suggestive statements about the demography of Malappuram, the only Muslim-majority district in...

6 Jun 2020 7:09 PM IST

A bomb disposal squad member of the Indian Army prepares to defuse two IEDs recovered from ULFA(I) cadres, at Polo Ground, near Paltan Bazar in Dibrugarh. PTI Photo

Claude Arpi | India vs China: Time to open some new fronts

This history shouldn't be forgotten when one looks at the present events in Ladakh, though establishment , says that...

6 Jun 2020 6:43 PM IST