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The Union government must use technology to the optimum to ensure that vaccine wastage is brought to a minimum. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Rural surge scary, act now to stop second Covid wave

While the first phase of Covid wave was in the metros and big cities of the country, the recent surge is reported from...

19 March 2021 4:56 AM IST

A diverse, multiracial society like America must own up that it has a huge racial problem in which visibly successful migrants are increasingly the victims of racial abuse, harassment and violent hate crimes. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Guns, racism & crime in US

As an epidemic, hate crime is on the rise in the USA, its graph exploding exponentially since the outbreak of the...

19 March 2021 4:12 AM IST

Chinas insistence that those who apply for a visa should have inoculated themselves with a Chinese-made vaccine defies logic and scientific principles, and reflects a total ignorance about the objective realities about the pandemic situation in the world. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | China's Catch-22 on vaccine

Vaccination for all must be a universal goal at present, and every nation, including China, should be part of it

18 March 2021 4:46 AM IST

The proposed change in law introduced by the Modi government will effectively render the Arvind Kejriwal government superfluous, practically reducing the present Delhi Assembly which was brought into existence in 1993 under the NCT Act- to a nullity. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Why does Centre want a 'viceroy' to run Delhi?

Modi govt plans to constitutionally aggrandise the office of the lieutenant governor of Delhi at the expense of the...

18 March 2021 4:20 AM IST

People hold up signs during a vigil to reflect on the murder of 33 year old marketing executive, Sarah Everard, in London, Monday, March 15, 2021. The British government is under pressure to do more to protect women and ensure the right to protest as Parliament prepares to debate a sweeping crime bill amid anger over the way police broke up a vigil for a young murder victim abducted on the streets of London. (AP/Matt Dunham)

AA Edit | Soul-search for Sarah

In India, or in countries outside Western Europe and North America, such happenings will be criticised but will not be...

17 March 2021 9:00 AM IST

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party president M. K. Stalin (top R) gestures to supporters during a rally after filing his nomination ahead of the Tamil Nadu state legislative assembly elections, in Chennai on March 15, 2021. (Arun SANKAR / AFP)

AA Edit | Competitive, compulsive: TN's poll freebie' culture

The 2021 freebie promise has been the most extensive on record with AIADMK offering a washing machine for each of about...

17 March 2021 8:47 AM IST

Mr Biden can do even more to help the world rid itself of the pandemic. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Biden shows the way

Biden signed a historic US $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package heralding a path-breaking measure that sets very high...

13 March 2021 4:54 AM IST

Fair and free elections where citizens vote peacefully and elect their representatives and rulers are one of the seminal pillars of a functioning democracy. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Polls a serious business, spare us all the theatrics

Spectacles and theatrics are essential ingredients of Indian elections and our leaders never fail to deliver them

13 March 2021 4:41 AM IST

The hope is that the new CM will appease disgruntled elements in preparation for the state poll next year. For the BJP, however, changing CMs midstream has not paid earlier. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | U'khand: Will BJP strategy work?

In a state with only 70 MLAs, change of loyalty is not hard to engineer a syndrome Uttarakhand shares with several...

12 March 2021 4:56 AM IST

The Congress and the UDF need to device a scheme that can rival that of the LDF if they were to return to power following the four-decade-old pattern. (Photo:DC)

AA Edit | Chacko exit: Is it too late for Cong to stop Kerala loss?

The Congress has of late demonstrated an unenviable ability to watch nonchalantly the sight of its bastions falling to...

12 March 2021 4:42 AM IST

The first concrete move from the US side under the new Joseph Biden administration would appear to have deepened uncertainties in respect of the unfolding situation in Afghanistan in the context of the withdrawal of all US troops by May 1 this year. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Uncertainty deepens after US move on Afghanistan

It is to be seen what former President Hamid Karzai and others make of the Blinken approach in contrast with that of...

11 March 2021 4:27 AM IST

The court will get the opinion of the state governments based on the position of the parties that run them. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Quotas: Let Parliament decide

Reservation is essentially a political question; its legal aspects are addressed by Article 15 (4) of the Constitution

11 March 2021 4:20 AM IST