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Pakistan stands self-condemned through the shocking boast of its federal minister Fawad Chaudhry — said to be close to Prime Minister Imran Khan — that the Pulwama terrorist attack on February 14 last year, in which 40 CRPF men were killed, was a “major achievement” of the government and the Opposition parties — meaning the people of Pakistan. (PTI)

AA Edit | Pak lies on terror exposed

Pakistan stands self-condemned through the shocking boast of its federal minister Fawad Chaudhry on the Pulwama terrorist attack last year

31 Oct 2020 10:53 AM

A girl reacts as a health worker wearing protective gear prepares to collect her swab sample to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at sample collection centre in Hyderabad on October 29, 2020.(AFP)

AA Edit | Don’t relax yet, ward off India’s 2nd wave

October 30 recorded the highest-ever daily increase of 5.45 lakh new patients

31 Oct 2020 9:54 AM

Students wearing face masks attend a class at a school that was reopened after closure for months owing to coronavirus pandemic, in Amritsar, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Schools are being opened as per guidelines issued in Unlock. 5. (PTI)

AA Edit | Heed ASER’s red flag

The ASER study showed that during the survey week, only one in three rural children had engaged in a learning activity

30 Oct 2020 10:14 AM

Activists of Peoples Democratic party (PDP) protesting against India's new land laws that allows any Indian citizen to buy land in the disputed region shout slogans in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. Until last year, Indians were not allowed to buy property in the region. But in August 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government scrapped the disputed region's special status, annulled its separate constitution, split the region into two federal territories. (AP)

AA Edit | Centre design in J&K stands exposed at last

In May this year, new domicile rules were devised to let some people from outside J&K to apply for permanent resident status

30 Oct 2020 10:07 AM

French President Emmanuel Macron looks on as he speaks to the press with the Estonian prime minister following their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on October 28, 2020. (AFP)

AA Edit | World must follow Macron

It is imperative upon other nations to confront this ever-growing global malaise and see through the power play of leaders

29 Oct 2020 10:12 AM

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a press statement, at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. (PTI)

AA Edit | Why India must not put all eggs in the US basket

The 2+2 talks had the obvious context of the Chinese aggression in Ladakh, and this enabled both sides to orchestrate extreme camaraderie

29 Oct 2020 10:04 AM

Voters queue up to cast their ballots for Bihar state assembly elections at a polling station in Patna on October 28, 2020. (AFP)

AA Edit | Bihar polls may have a wider impact on nation

Many of the assumptions made about the electoral landscape today appear less well grounded than before

28 Oct 2020 9:49 AM

US President Donald Trump (L) stands with Judge Amy Coney Barrett after she was sworn in as a US Supreme Court Associate Justice during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House October 26, 2020, in Washington, DC. (AFP)

AA Edit | The Amy factor in America

Will Ms Barrett undo the feminist legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg whose seat she now occupies?

28 Oct 2020 9:42 AM

Bihar: Lalu son handful, but contest is wide open

But with the campaign picking up, the turbulence in the waters of the Ganga, Kosi, Gandak and the Son are becoming more evident.

24 Oct 2020 12:09 PM

Pope Francis, wearing a face mask, descending the stairs of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli prior to an inter-religious ceremony for peace in Campidoglio Square, at Rome's Capitoline Hill. (Photo: VATICAN MEDIA / AFP)

AA Edit | We are family

The conservatives say the Pope has only reminded the families of LGBT persons not to throw them out

24 Oct 2020 10:12 AM

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses a press conference, ahead of the Bihar Assembly Elections, in Patna. (PTI)

AA Edit | Polls before policy? BJP vaccine carrot unethical

If Bihar is to get the Covid vaccine free, will other states also get it free? Has the cost of this been calculated?

24 Oct 2020 9:53 AM

CSK skipper M.S. Dhoni with his daughter Ziva at the post match ceremony. (Photo: BCCI)

AA Edit| ‘Rapist’ trolls: Shame them

Earlier, the five-year-old daughter of cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni was threatened similarly by a tennager from Gujarat on Instagram

22 Oct 2020 12:02 PM

Congress Party workers celebrate after Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh resolution at Punjabs' state assembly rejecting the three farm laws passed by Indian Parliament, in Amritsar on October 20, 2020.(AFP)

AA Edit | Punjab makes a point, will other states follow?

It is highly likely that courts will be called upon to decide on the constitutionality or otherwise of the bills

22 Oct 2020 11:08 AM

An artist makes a coronavirus themed idol for Puja festivities at a workshop at Kumartuli in Kolkata. PTI photo

AA Edit | Rein in festive cheer

Experts have been warning for quite some time about the festivals torpedoing the efforts to contain the pandemic

21 Oct 2020 9:54 AM

A paramilitary soldier stands guard by a road near the venue for India's Independence Day ceremony in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. (AP)

AA Edit | J&K district councils not a good-faith move

The case of J&K is going to be little different from that of Ladakh, at least for the foreseeable future

21 Oct 2020 9:45 AM

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks with senior members of parliament a day after her landslide election win, in Auckland on October 18, 2020. (AFP)

AA Edit | A win for liberal-left

However, as far as her progressive agenda is concerned, it is unclear whether Ardern’s government has the economic chops to push it through

19 Oct 2020 10:16 AM

A man walks balancing a basket on his head at a vegetable market in Lucknow, India. (AP)

AA Edit | India indicted by global hunger index

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2020 published this week has put India behind most of its south Asian neighbours, including Bangladesh

19 Oct 2020 10:07 AM

The GST Council was unable to find a way out of the dispute on how to bridge the estimated shortfall of Rs 2.35 lakh crores in the GST collection for this fiscal. (ANI)

AA Edit | GST: A win for states

That the change in stance will ensure better rates and easy administration of the process is only part of the deal

17 Oct 2020 10:07 AM

Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and President of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti poses for a photograph with senior party leaders, at her residence in Srinagar, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. Union Territory administration revoked the Public Safety Act charges against Mufti, more than a year after she was detained following the abrogation of the special status of the erstwhile state. (PTI)

AA Edit | If PDP, others cohere, Centre will be afraid

If the Kashmir parties stick together in the foreseeable future, the BJP’s pursuit could prove Sisyphean

17 Oct 2020 10:02 AM

Indian Army soldiers stand guard near Nastachun pass, also known as Sadhana pass, about 8 Km from the Line of Control (LOC) in the district of Kupwara. (AFP)

AA Edit | Hate squad’s dangerous agenda

So frightening has the monster of social media grown that it is causing concern about the cohesiveness of our Armed Forces

16 Oct 2020 11:05 AM

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