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AA Edit | The pandemic exploiters

AA Edit | The pandemic exploiters

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the importance of the public health system back to the forefront.

29 May 2020 8:05 PM IST

Migrants walk along a platform after deboarding a special train at Charbagh railway station, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Lucknow. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Show compassion to our guest workers

The apex court has, over the decades, used constitutional provisions to remind the governments of their responsibility

29 May 2020 7:51 PM IST

: Passengers undergo thermal screening before they board buses at KSRTC bus stand after Karnataka government eased the relaxation to allow inter-district travel by buses, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, at Devanahalli near Bengaluru. PTI Photo

Dilli Ka Babu | Karnataka officer who spoke for guest workers gets...

The transfer seems to have shocked many people within the government as well as the public

29 May 2020 7:25 PM IST

Migrants, who have arrived from Surat in Gujarat, walk to board buses to reach their native places, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown. PTI Photo

Anand K Sahay | Atma Nirbhar Bharat': A mantra to mask failure?

When the lockdown came without notice, and the regime left the 400 million informal sector in the lurch, the Indian...

28 May 2020 7:25 PM IST

A scooterist tries to pass under an uprooted tree lying across a road, in the aftermath of the extremely severe cyclone Amphan, in Kolkata (PTI)

Dev 360 | Cascading crises force periphery into the core

Kolkata's devastation feels personal because it is, but it's not the only place that has been hit hard

28 May 2020 6:30 PM IST

Representational image (PTI)

Aakar Patel | Kerala a role model in war against Covid, let's all...

Remember, there is no cure for Covid-19, If you catch the infection, you can only wait for it to pass through you safely

28 May 2020 5:52 PM IST

Arogya Setu app (Twitter)

AA Edit: Centre's Aarogya' climbdown

Launched in April, Aarogya Setu now has 110 million subscribers

27 May 2020 7:56 PM IST

D.V. Sadananda Gowda (PTI)

AA Edit: More elite than thou: Gowda impunity reeks

It's time the Union government got its act together

27 May 2020 7:39 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi (PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | History is ignored: The march of folly

There are dangers when the system leaves all decision-making to one individual, Others stop thinking

27 May 2020 7:24 PM IST

People wear protective face masks as they walk down Whitehall in the Spring sunshine in central London. (AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Everybody needs a Whitsun holiday while UK ponders...

As the weeks have gone by, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks less and less in charge

27 May 2020 7:04 PM IST

Boats anchored on the shores of the Ganga in Varanasi. The pilgrimage town has witnessed dwindling of tourism in the past two months due to the coronavirus pandemic. (PTI)

A wish list from Varanasi's craftsmen and artistes

The PM's relief package does not pay any special attention to the thousands of families dependent on local industries

26 May 2020 10:16 PM IST

Delivering bare subsistence relief will be difficult enough, with supply chains disrupted and production halted. PTI Photo

Shikha Mukerjee: Amphan's aftermath set to test Mamata & Modi

India is yet to declare devastation caused by Amphan a national disaster; its dithering is a signal of the political...

26 May 2020 4:56 PM IST