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Locking people up is an easier way for the governments and authorities to bring down the rate of infection than devising ways to use the scientific tools optimally. Representational Image. (PTI)

AA Edit | Keep focus on vaccinations, new lockdowns not way out

People's livelihoods have been hit hard and they have little or no idea when they will be able to get back to their...

2 Aug 2021 2:27 AM IST

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, speaks as Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam‚ Jaishankar listens during a joint news conference at Jawaharlal Nehru Bhawan (JNB) in New Delhi. (Photo:AP)

AA Edit | On China, Afghanistan, India indeed on its own

Unlike India, the US does not have a territorial dispute with China

30 July 2021 1:10 AM IST

It is universally accepted that local self-government bodies and peoples representatives were at the forefront of the fight against the virus in the first wave but that focus is not seen there now. Representational Image (Twitter)

AA Edit | How Kerala lost Covid fight

e of the best health infrastructure systems in the country and its doctors are renowned world over

29 July 2021 1:32 AM IST

If things took a dangerous turn just a couple of days after a meeting of northeastern states initiated by the home minister, Amit Shah, it does reflect that rivalries embedded in the region after Assam was historically broken up into smaller states are not easily resolved. (PTI)

AA Edit | First, douse the fire on Assam-Mizoram border

The police forces of two states figuring in such a conflagration is the closest India may have ever come to a civil war

29 July 2021 1:08 AM IST

Mamata Banerjee. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | A shrewd move by Bengal

The move by West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee may be just another arrow in a war between the Opposition and the Centre

28 July 2021 1:26 AM IST

On Monday, Yediyurappa said: Within 2-3 hours, I am going to get the final list from Amit Bhai (BJP President Amit Shah). So, cabinet expansion will be done tomorrow. (Photo: ANI)

AA Edit | How can BJP pick a CM and not irk Yediyurappa?

The BJP has to keep these circumstances in mind though it has had to ease out the Lingayat leader on account of his age

28 July 2021 1:18 AM IST

A Pakistan-dependent dispensation in Kabul, especially one that has strong Chinese backing, a prospect made feasible on account of the US departure from Afghanistan on account of war-weariness, will also seek to deny India a physical link to Central Asia. (Twitter)

AA Edit | It's time for straight talk with US on Afghanistan

Even if India does not have a direct border with Afghanistan after Partition, that country lies just beyond our borders

26 July 2021 2:37 AM IST

Curiously, mankind itself is feeling hapless as climate change seems to be taking its toll. Representational Image (Twitter)

AA Edit | Climate change hits home

The precariously fragile ecosystems of the Western Ghats have also been potentially disrupted by construction activity

26 July 2021 2:08 AM IST

Tokyos excellent sporting infrastructure will be offering a level playing field for the athlettes. (Twitter)

AA Edit | Let the Games begin in Tokyo as Covid lingers

No edition since 1896 may have been so fraught with the sheer tensions of a global pandemic

23 July 2021 3:20 AM IST

That the Union government has picked the right signals from the tragedy of citizens dying due to lack of oxygen has been reflected in the way it has been taking precautionary measures to avoid a repeat of it, should a third wave visit us. Representational Image (PTI)

AA Edit | Own up to oxygen mess

The PM-Cares Fund has been liberally funded for the setting up of oxygen plants across the country

23 July 2021 2:48 AM IST

Amazon.com and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos (centre), his brother, Mark Bezos (left), Oliver Daemen (right) and Wally Funk (seated) experienced about three minutes of weightlessness during their first space flight on Tuesday. (Photo: Twitter/ @blueorigin)

AA Edit | New space pioneers

Waiting in the wings is Elon Musk whose company has greater reach in space already

22 July 2021 1:16 AM IST

Two crore vaccine doses have been administered in the first 72 hours of the implementation of the new revised guidelines of the National COVID-19 Vaccination Programme, the ministry said. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | With crores vulnerable, vaccines key to safety

The survey was held among 28,975 people in 70 districts in 20 states in June and July this year

22 July 2021 1:03 AM IST