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Migrants stand in a queue at Central Railway Station to board a Shramik Special train for West Bengal, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Chennai. PTI Photo

Charity alone is not enough to save informal sector workers

Collaboration with the authorities, has been difficult, and sporadic, primarily because the government's attitude has...

6 Jun 2020 4:24 PM IST

US Marshals are restraining a protestor near the White House on June 1, 2020 as demonstrations against George Floyds death continue. AP Photo

Farrukh Dhondy | Is Trump destined to fail true test of democracy?

The most telling test of democracy in our world is the treatment by nations of their minorities

5 Jun 2020 7:21 PM IST

An activist holds a placard during a candlelit remembrance outside Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2020, after an annual vigil that traditionally takes place in the park to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown was banned on public health grounds because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. AP Photo

AA Edit | Pushed to the edge

The new law undercuts Article 18 of Hong Kong's Basic Law, which limits Beijing from applying national laws to the...

5 Jun 2020 5:29 PM IST

: Army personnel during a counter-infiltration operation along the Line of Control in Kalakote sector of Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Intimidation and defamation: BJP's twin strategies in J-K

Thousands of individuals, including the former state's most consequential political leaders as well as children were...

5 Jun 2020 5:08 PM IST

In this Thursday Jan. 24, 2019 file photo visitors walk through the cemetery of the former Nazi concentration camp in Terezin, Czech Republic. AP Photo

Saeed Naqvi | Engaging with rest of world: Will BBC give a better...

There has been worldwide condemnation for anti-Semitism officially and in the media, but our disinterest disturbs me for...

5 Jun 2020 4:44 PM IST

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AA Edit | A reasonable upgrade

The annual summit has run into a maze of geopolitics with Germany opposing the re-inclusion of Russia

4 Jun 2020 5:34 PM IST

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AA Edit | To ensure LAC peace, let's agree to define it

The immediate provocation for the latest Chinese aggressiveness appears to be India's intensified efforts to build a...

4 Jun 2020 5:19 PM IST

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Mohan Guruswamy | The small stimulus and the fiscal deficit fetish

Keynesians believe consumer demand is the primary driving force in an economy

4 Jun 2020 5:04 PM IST

Migrants from Jaipur arrive by Shramik Special train at Danapur junction, during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus (PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu | Shramik Special disgrace: Can it be traced to crisis...

Even within the organisation, there are reports of a brewing discontent among the officials

4 Jun 2020 4:34 PM IST

Guest workers look out from the window of their train in Prayagraj, India as they return to their villages.AP Photo

AA Edit | Heroes of Covid-19

Where the government faltered, citizens tried, if limitedly

3 Jun 2020 6:06 PM IST

: A farmer carries bunches of paddy saplings for plantation in a field, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, on the outskirts of Srinagar. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Only bold moves can bail out Covid economy

The government has failed miserably by window-dressing old proposals to hoodwink people into believing that they are the...

3 Jun 2020 5:54 PM IST

Women along with wearing face shields leave the Birsa Munda International Airport after they were brought by a special flight from Mumbai. PTI Photo

Lockdown reinforced gender roles, more women abused

The lockdown has proved to be challenging for all women professional or homemakers , with all family at home, demanding...

3 Jun 2020 5:28 PM IST