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A homeless woman sleeps on a deserted platform of a Lokmanya Tilak train terminus in Mumbai, March 23, 2020. As India expanded its virus-containment measures and halted its lifeblood train network, the federal government warned Monday of strict legal action for those who flout the rules. (AP)

AA Edit | Tackle corona or face the voter's ire

A renewed urgency and a prompter response is the absolute need of the hour

22 Sept 2020 8:07 PM IST

The Central Vista project design (Image: HCP Designs)

Shobhaa De | A monument to a monumental ego

Heritage and history need to be respected, even by those determined to rewrite both

19 Sept 2020 5:32 PM IST

Protesters throw a statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbour, during a Black Lives Matter protest rally, in Bristol, England. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | The politics of erasing Gunga Din

The Black Lives Matter upheaval has resulted in this reappraisal of history

19 Sept 2020 4:41 PM IST

One of the great scholars when it comes to Urdu literature, Gopi Chand Narang, was quoted as saying that, Urdu is not the language of Muslims. If at all there is any language of Muslims, it should be Arabic. Urdu belongs to the composite culture of India. Hindi and Urdu are supplementary and complementary. They are like sisters strengthening each other .

The curious case of Urdu in NEP 2020

NEP 2020 has given birth to apprehensions in the minds of Urdu lovers due to its unique status

18 Sept 2020 7:21 PM IST

: Protesters throw stones on security personnel after an encounter with militants, at Batamaloo in Srinagar. PTI Photo

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmiris respond to Centre with Gupkar II'

Its defining feature can be summed by a phrase in it: nothing about us without us

18 Sept 2020 6:37 PM IST

Facebook is facing questions on its ways in several countries of the world. (AFP)

Freedom and bias: How Facebook is facing a reckoning

This year marks Facebook's growth from innocence to experience

17 Sept 2020 8:12 PM IST

BJP wrote a letter to home minister Anil Deshmukh urging him to roll out a more aggressive action plan to protect Mumbai police. (PTI Photo)

Dilli ka Babu | 7 former DGPs jump in to defend Mumbai police

Their petition to Bombay High Court says there are sinister designs behind the campaign

17 Sept 2020 7:56 PM IST

Social activists display placards during a press conference over police probe on Delhi riots cases, at Press Club of India in New Delhi

AA Edit | Gross misuse of anti-terrorism laws

Delhi police arrested Umar Khalid, a former student leader of the Jawaharlal Nehru University for inciting violence'...

16 Sept 2020 6:17 PM IST

The UAPA and other special laws like CSPSA are called black laws because the crimes they seek to cover could be dealt with under IPC and because these laws give special, unaccountable power to the police. PTI Photo

Bela Bhatia | Lockdown for some, lockup for others

More humane provisions are needed for prisoners, including political prisoners and those charged under special laws

16 Sept 2020 5:39 PM IST

Farmers take a tea break in a paddy field in Pulwama district, south of Srinagar on September. AFP Photo

Export agro-produce to create rural prosperity

India is exporting a very small percentage of total agricultural products produced in quantitative terms

16 Sept 2020 4:46 PM IST

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh

AA Edit | Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, the mathematician whose formula...

Dr Singh, a PhD in mathematics and a former professor, had his political baptism in the Jayaprakash movement against...

15 Sept 2020 5:40 PM IST

File image of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. (ANI)

Aakar Patel | Jaishankar's prescriptions are simplistic, just excuses

The assumption Jaishankar makes about liberalisation automatically producing economic growth is false

15 Sept 2020 5:09 PM IST