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Union Home Minister Amit Shah chairs a review meeting of the Directors General of All Central Armed Police Forces, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Amit Shah dispels rumours

Mr Shah and his ministry have been engaged over the past few weeks in a series of confrontations with the West Bengal

11 May 2020 6:03 PM IST

Stranded migrants board a truck to reach their native places in Uttar Pradesh, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, at Bakania bypass in Bhopa. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Stop states from trampling over labour rights

The government must realise that it is illogical, undemocratic, immoral and inhuman to put the workers at the receiving...

11 May 2020 5:52 PM IST

Migrants arriving from Andhra Pradesh undergo thermal screening after deboarding a train at Danapur railway station, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Patna. PTI Photo

Manish Tewari: India rushes headlong into summer of death

It begs an obvious question if governments are not there to help citizens in need what else are they there for?

11 May 2020 5:29 PM IST

$NHS staff members take part in a national \clap for carers\ to show thanks for the work of Britains National Health Service (NHS) workers and frontline medical staff around the country as they battle with the novel coronavirus pandemic, at Leeds General hospital in Leeds. AFP Photo$ Opinion

Kishwar Desai: So many Indians found calling in NHS, so many devoted...

Many of those who died Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis were usually working beyond retirement age

11 May 2020 5:08 PM IST

: Congress President Sonia Gandhi during a video appeal to migrants, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Waqyanawis: Amid Modi-Shah inertia, Congress Party makes presence felt

Slowly, the Congress Party in the coronavirus pandemic is not looking bad at all

10 May 2020 5:39 PM IST

People, sitting in marked circles to respect social distancing norms, wait to collect free ration from a government shop, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Mathura. PTI Photo

Sweta Dash: Death stalks, rations due, yet Centre sits on papers

Over the years, governments have routinely denied starvation deaths and turned a blind eye to its connection with...

10 May 2020 5:02 PM IST

A woman wearing a face mask disinfects her hands amid concern over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. AFP Photo

Neelima Mathur: Handwashing a new pandemic' in offing?

The world is stuck between a mix of existent handwashing cultures, contemplation and guilt about over-consumption

10 May 2020 4:30 PM IST

Bharat PetroResources Ltd (BPRL), an exploration and production subsidiary of BPCL, had in August 2008 bought a 10 per cent stake in Area-1 Offshore of the Rovuma Block from the US energy major Anadarko Petroleum Corp for $75 million.

AA Edit: Rallying with fuel

The Centre's decision to levy an excise duty of Rs 10 on a litre of petrol and Rs 13 on diesel would help in collecting...

9 May 2020 7:44 PM IST

Police personnel along with officials walk on a rail track as they check the site following a train accident in Aurangabad district on Friday.(AFP)

The terrible injustice meted out to India's guest workers

They chose to walk home as they had no job, food, shelter or money; there was no government to attend to their basic...

9 May 2020 7:29 PM IST

Migrants from Madhya Pradesh walk along a road towards their native places during the nationwide lockdown, imposed in wake of the coronavirus pandemic, in Surat. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Centre must come with lockdown exit plan now

None questioned the wisdom of shutting the nation down when Mr Modi took the unprecedented decision, as the objective...

9 May 2020 7:24 PM IST

The exercise of creating the graded zones of red, orange and green on the basis of the intensity of Covid-19 in these areas seems to have been done without strategic intent. PTI Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr: Govt muddling in crisis, drift and politics...

The Central government took gratuitous decisions without consulting the chief ministers and the state governments

9 May 2020 7:10 PM IST

Representational image (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy: Some questions arise in intriguing Covid times

The population of the world asks, when can we go back to normal which poses the question, when was anything normal?

9 May 2020 6:59 PM IST