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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

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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

Medics carry testing kit to check COVID-19 patients who have completed mandatory 14-days of quarantine before their discharge at a hospital, during the ongoing nationwide lockdown. PTI Photo

Anita Katyal: No excuse for Gujarat crisis; crossover buzz about...

Both MP Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Vijay Rupani find themselves in the dock for their failure to contain the growing...

9 May 2020 6:32 PM IST

A man carries a child to an ambulance afDisaster response personnel and volunteers rush the victims of Gopalapatnam gas tragedy to the safest place after a Gas leak incident from LG Polymers Company near Venkatapuram in Visakhapatnam on Thursday.

What makes Vizag the hazardous industry capital of India? Bribes!

There have been no less than 40 industrial mishaps in and around Visakhapatnam in the past six years, claiming at least...

8 May 2020 12:42 PM IST

Migrant workers carry sacks of groceries distributed at their workplace during coronavirus lockdown (PTI)

Sanjay Kumar: As India battles Covid, class divide is growing

Brining back lakhs of migrant workers home is a herculean task, and the government must be complimented for that

7 May 2020 7:00 PM IST

Xi Jinping, President of China

Maura Moynihan: Top Western elites are now cheerleaders for Xi's China

This unholy alliance between American elites and the CCP is crashing on the shoals of reality

7 May 2020 6:47 PM IST

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AA Edit: Lessons, for bois'

Surely boys will also be bois ,They have been for ages

7 May 2020 6:27 PM IST

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AA Edit: Flights home: More optics, less mitigation

The increasing spread of Covid-19 and the stress on the medical infrastructure in those countries added to their worries

7 May 2020 6:17 PM IST

A staffer of the Supreme Court tested positive for coronavirus. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit: The wheels of e-justice

The Indian courts - High Courts as well as the Supreme Court - have proved adept at holding virtual hearings and...

6 May 2020 8:18 PM IST

Senior officers carry the coffin of the slain CRPF Constable C Chandra Shekhar, who was killed in a militant attack in Kupwara district, during a wreath laying ceremony at Humhama on the outskirts of Srinagar. PTI Photo

AA Edit: J-K attacks give the lie to govt's Art. 370 narrative

Pakistan-driven militancy tends to gain force when the rapport between the government and the people dissipates

6 May 2020 8:08 PM IST