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Following a decision of the state cabinet, the police are now booking men who married girls aged below 14, under the stringent Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and those who married girls aged between 14 and 18 under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006. (File Photo)

AA Edit | Child marriages: Bring awareness

Marriage is a social institution in India and Assam is no exception

8 Feb 2023 12:30 AM IST

File photo of a woman protester shouting as police stop her and several others during their march against the amended Citizenship Act, NRC and NPR, near Jamia Nagar in New Delhi.(Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Spotlight on abuse of the law

More than three-fourth of people languishing in Indian jails are undertrials; several of them are people who cannot...

7 Feb 2023 12:15 AM IST

In this photo provided by Chad Fish, the remnants of a large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, Feb. 4, 2023. The downing of the suspected Chinese spy balloon by a missile from an F-22 fighter jet created a spectacle over one of the states tourism hubs and drew crowds reacting with a mixture of bewildered gazing, distress and cheering. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | US downing of Chinese spy balloon justifiable

Fear of advanced aerial technology of cutting edge kind to spy on a country's nuclear missile silos is perceived to be...

7 Feb 2023 12:10 AM IST

Pakistans former President Gen. Pervez Musharrafs popularity dropped and the attack by the security forces on Lal Masjid conservative seminary in Islamabad in July 2007 further increased his unpopularity. (File Photo)

AA EDIT | Pak general made war, then began peace pitch

Does this amount to a legacy? Time will tell

6 Feb 2023 12:55 AM IST

Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang. (Photo: Twitter)

AA EDIT | SC must heed Sikkim sentiments

Protests broke out in the Himalayan state after the apex court delivered its verdict

6 Feb 2023 12:06 AM IST

Director K. Viswanath. (AA File Image)

DC Edit | Adieu to Telugu film legend

In his passing, India has lost a great storyteller and filmmaker and a warm soul

4 Feb 2023 1:13 AM IST

The BJPs mega push in the Northeast started in 2016 with the formation of the North Eastern Democratic Alliance, a platform of non-Congress parties in the region with the declared aim to keep the Congress out of power. (Representational Image)

AA Edit | BJP sets high stakes in Northeast states' polls

The BJP has evolved an electioneering pattern where it has a plan for every seat, and the renewed thrust neatly squares...

4 Feb 2023 1:07 AM IST

Shubman Gill celebrates after scoring a century during the third Twenty20 international cricket match between India and New Zealand at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad on February 1, 2023.(Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | A new batting star rises

Gill has all the markings to push for inclusion in the pantheon of Indian batting greats if he sustains his form across...

3 Feb 2023 12:15 AM IST

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman poses for a photograph as she leaves the Finance ministry to present the annual budget in the parliament in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | High 5 in the Union Budget: Some clever innovations

Here are the five unique facets in the Budget that need a second reiteration

3 Feb 2023 12:10 AM IST

Vizag beach road. (Representational Image)

AA Edit | Vizag as AP capital welcome

Mr Reddy has finally put AP, however belatedly, on the firm path of sustainable development and a bright future

2 Feb 2023 12:15 AM IST

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2023-24 in the Lok Sabha, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Sound Budget for stability, opportunity lost on reform

Green is the colour of the Budget, with a big thrust to green housing, green vehicles, green industries

2 Feb 2023 12:10 AM IST

Security officials and rescue workers conduct an operation to clear the rubble and search for bodies at the site of Mondays suicide bombing, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. The death toll from the previous days suicide bombing at a mosque in northwestern Pakistani rose to more than 85 on Tuesday, officials said. The assault on a Sunni Mosque inside a major police facility was one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistani security forces in recent years. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Pak singed, playing with fire

Given the background of encouragement for disruptive elements who use bombs as a weapon against civilians as well, Pak...

1 Feb 2023 12:10 AM IST