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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 IST

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 IST

Activists of Peoples Democratic party (PDP) protesting against Indias 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 Modis government scrapped the disputed regions 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...

30 Oct 2020 10:07 AM IST

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...

29 Oct 2020 10:12 AM IST

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...

29 Oct 2020 10:04 AM IST

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 IST

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 IST

RJD leader Tejaswi Yadav.

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...

24 Oct 2020 12:09 PM IST

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 Romes 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 IST

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 IST

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...

22 Oct 2020 12:02 PM IST

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 IST