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Migrants take rest along the national highway, during their journey towards their native place, amid the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, at Devanahalli near Bengaluru. PTI Photo

Can India's rural property card be capitalised to propel post-Covid...

Ironically, for India's millions of poor, informal workers and farmers, informality around land tenure is an inevitable...

18 May 2020 6:21 PM IST

Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar (PTI file photo)

WaqyaNawis: Bihar electors gear up to punish MPs who abandoned them

The Bihar Assembly poll is scheduled later this year

16 May 2020 8:33 PM IST

Representational image (PTI)

Shashi Warrier: My friend Murthy and the corona conspiracies

To these guys it's easy to tell who's good and who's not If you're alive at the end of the pandemic you're good, and...

16 May 2020 8:18 PM IST

A health worker conducts thermal screening of migrants travelling from Mumbai to their native places, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lcockdown, in Nadia district. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Don't dilute labour laws

The attack on the labour laws was initiated in Uttar Pradesh where the government has cleared an ordinance suspending 35...

16 May 2020 7:57 PM IST

Stranded migrant labourers in Chennai, in southeastern India, prepare to board a special train to take them home after the government eased lockdown measures (AFP)

Coronavirus exposes our democracy's fault lines

Indian economy is certainly facing a crisis. This, however, does not justify use of violence against migrant labourers

16 May 2020 7:52 PM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses the fourth part of her press conference on the economic stimulus package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the National Media Centre, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Instead of booster shot, FM hints at future relief

Deflation was something that India has never witnessed and is considered worse than benign inflation for the growth of...

16 May 2020 7:32 PM IST

Attendants wearing protective gear walk as the first special train from New Delhi after train services were partially resumed arrives at the railway station in Jammu, India. AP Photo

Shobhaa De: Thank God Indians still have a sense of humour!

In itself and on paper, the stimulus package looked good -- at least in the way it was marketed . But did it make much...

16 May 2020 7:16 PM IST

Cyclists ride along The Mall next to a police car near Buckingham Palace in central London on May 16, 2020, following an easing of lockdown rules in England during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. AP Photo

Farrukh Dhondy: In UK, it is rich who exit cities as Covid blurs...

In Britain the only movements one can compare to the exodus from Indian cities is the movement of rich from, London, to...

16 May 2020 6:59 PM IST

For college graduates or young professionals who join as Army interns, it may be win-win situation. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Soldiers and citizens

While initially only about 100 officers and 1,000 jawans may be inducted for the Tour of Duty , if the government...

15 May 2020 6:18 PM IST

Evidently, the atmosphere of mistrust between the government in Kabul and the Taliban is complete. This cannot but further complicate the prospects of a so-called intra-Afghan dialogue. AP Photo

AA Edit: In a matter of months, Afghan peace unravels

The violence of May 12 have led the government of President Ashraf Ghani to officially end the defensive posture by the...

15 May 2020 5:52 PM IST

In this March 30, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump opens a box containing a 5-minute test for COVID-19 from Abbott Laboratories as Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. AP Photo

Saeed Naqvi: Fair is foul & foul is fair in Trump's world

As the world focuses on fighting coronavirus, US claws are out, groping the Venezuelan coastline, using Colombian...

15 May 2020 5:34 PM IST

Migrants queue up for thermal screening on their arrival at Amethi railway station from Gujarat by a special train, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Amethi. PTI Photo

Dev 360: Can gutting labour laws spell advantage to India?

The key assumption is that labour rights are a major roadblock to business growth

15 May 2020 5:17 PM IST