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A statue of a discus thrower stands opposite Athens' Panathenaic stadium or Kalimarmaro, where the first modern Olympic Games began, in Athens, one day after the historic decision to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Japan on March 25 started the unprecedented task of reorganising the Tokyo Olympics after the historic decision to postpone the world's biggest sporting event due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that has locked down one third of the planet. (AFP)

AA Edit: Olympics makes the sacrifice

There can be no winner in this battle against Covid-19, only survivors

26 Mar 2020 6:50 PM

A homeless woman sleeps on a deserted platform of the Lokmanya Tilak train terminus in Mumbai. (File photo: AP)

AA Edit: Centre must plan for Lakshman Rekha

The Lakshman Rekha poses no hazard to those who have an assured income but what about the 50 crore daily-wage earners?

26 Mar 2020 6:32 PM

The equity markets are down 35 per cent since the coronavirus scare began.

AA Edit: Suspend equity market for now

Foreign investors are dumping Indian stocks every day as if there is no future

24 Mar 2020 6:52 AM

People clap and clang utensils as a gesture to show gratitude to the medical practitioners fighting the coronavirus in Bikaner, Rajasthan on March 22, 2020. PM Modi proposed a 'Janta curfew' between 7 am and 9 pm as part of social distancing to check the spread of the deadly virus. (PTI)

AA Edit: Playing to the gallery amid pandemic

Was this yet another excuse to reshape India into an obedient population?

24 Mar 2020 6:37 AM

The scene outside the Tihar jail at dawn when the rape convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case were hanged.

AA Edit: Nirbhaya hangings were nothing to gloat about

Reactions from either side of the ideological divide were bereft of sobriety

21 Mar 2020 12:35 AM

Modi speaks and a huge majority of over a billion follow.

AA Edit: Shot off the citizen’s shoulder, PM’s salvo finds the target

When Modi appeals, citizens listen, as they did when they stood patiently in queues outside ATMs

21 Mar 2020 12:26 AM

This is a breach of the right to privacy.

AA Edit: Why does the government need cell phone data now?

The directive to telecom operators to provide CDRs of all mobile phone users in the country raises suspicions of surveillance

20 Mar 2020 2:31 PM

People wearing protective masks in to protect against the coronavirus pandemic walk along the Ramlala market in Ayodhya on March 14, 2020. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath is planning to hold a massive congregation of religious seers on the occasion of Ram Navami at Ayodhya from March 25 to April 2 despite the threat of the coronavirus (Covid-19). (PTI)

AA Edit: Ram Navami meeting at Ayodhya is an invitation to disaster

And Narendra Modi is having to choose between the holy men at the core of his constituency and his responsibilities as PM

20 Mar 2020 12:42 PM

In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, the then chief justice of India justice Ranjan Gogoi seen during the 18th late Dharamnath Prasad Kohli memorial lecture organised by the CBI in New Delhi. President Ram Nath Kovind nominated Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha on March 16, 2020. (PTI)

AA EDIT: Gogoi’s RS nomination sends wrong signal

Justice Gogoi had a destructive influence as a strongman judge

18 Mar 2020 12:01 AM

AA EDIT: Bring back Sanjay Manjrekar

As an individual, he has every right to hold an opinion on public issues

18 Mar 2020 12:01 AM

Madhya Pradesh governor Lalji Tandon and chief minister Kamal Nath arrive for the budget session of the state Assembly in Bhopal on March 16, 2020. (PTI)

AA EDIT: Can the BJP topple Kamal Nath?

The legislature belongs to the people’s reps and is run by the speaker, not the governor

17 Mar 2020 9:29 AM

A medical worker stores medical samples of patients at a coronavirus testing lab. (AFP)

AA EDIT: India must do much more on coronavirus testing

We still have no protocol on compulsorily testing people with symptoms

17 Mar 2020 9:01 AM

Supporters of the All-India Hindu Mahasabha organised a gau mutra party in New Delhi to publicise cow urine as an antidote to the coronavirus. (AP)

AA Edit: End this rage against science

There may be some amazing hidden qualities in gau mutra but it cannot be used as a vaccine against Covid-19

16 Mar 2020 12:48 PM

National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah with his wife Mollie Abdullah (left) and daughter Safiya Abdullah (right) speaks to the media after his detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA) was revoked by the Jammu & Kashmir administration on March 13, 2020. (PTI)

AA EDIT: Now that Farooq Abdullah is 'free', will Kashmir be back to normal soon?

Dr Abdullah’s release yields the surmise that the Narendra Modi government has just had an attack of realism

16 Mar 2020 12:15 PM

The departure of Jyotiraditya Scindia from the Congress is the latest setback the opposition party has suffered due to its imprudent leadership.

Jyotiraditya Scindia jumps ship

The Congress leadership has been smug in its belief that a resourceful Kamal Nath would manage things all on his own

10 Mar 2020 11:31 PM

An Indian stockbroker gestures as he watches the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) index on a trading terminal in Mumbai, on March 9, 2020. Global stock markets and oil prices plunged Monday after a squabble among crude producers jolted investors who already were on edge about the surging costs of a virus outbreak. India's Sensex retreated 6.2 per cent to 35,255.73. (AP)

The current global crisis is an opportunity for India

The crash in crude oil prices is a blessing for the country

10 Mar 2020 10:55 PM

Black votes matter in US

It appears the Democrats have their ideal presidential candidate to take the onerous task of trying to defeat the incumbent.

07 Mar 2020 7:08 AM

People wait for cash withdrawals outside a Yes Bank branch in Ahmedabad on Friday. (Photo: AP)

Govt, RBI must resolve mess in banking sector

The RBI’s sudden regulatory action on Yes Bank leaves many questions unanswered.

07 Mar 2020 7:06 AM

Though the government was contemplating legislation to ban cryptocurrency, the RBI went ahead by banning banks from dealing with cryptocurrency exchanges to ringfence the lenders from price bubbles.

Cryptocurrency law needed

India, whose people remit more than $80 billion a year, could save a lot with this technology.

06 Mar 2020 6:18 AM

Pleas against all hate speech must be heard

The intervention was necessitated after a series of events and contradictory orders from the Delhi HC left the riot-affected people high and dry.

06 Mar 2020 6:15 AM