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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das addresses via livestream as he announces the central banks monetary policy decisions, in Mumbai. PTI photo

Edit | India's economic recovery is contingent on curbing COVID-19

A full recovery in the economy, therefore, would be incumbent on how fast the world defeats the coronavirus.

12 Oct 2020 6:40 PM IST

An ineffective outcome seems to be written into the project because it glosses over the ground realities and betrays short-sightedness and ignorance of the political canvas on which the CAA law in reaction to which Shaheen Bagh has sprung has been inscribed. (Photo: G.N. JHA)

AA Edit | Spare the commuter from the Shaheen Bagh protests

The court was categorical in rejecting the argument that citizens have an absolute right of peaceful protest

9 Oct 2020 4:28 PM IST

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Chief Chirag Paswan along with party leaders after the meeting ahead of Bihar Assembly elections, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

AA Edit | LJP's Bihar poll games bare BJP's secret hand

It also invites us to reflect on the BJP's relationship with allies once the saffron party has gains in strength

9 Oct 2020 4:18 PM IST

The viruses Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B had been discovered by the mid-1960s

AA Edit | Towards an HCV-free world

An estimated 71 million people worldwide suffer from chronic HCV infection, requiring liver transplants

7 Oct 2020 6:47 PM IST

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses media on the outcomes of the 42nd GST Council meeting, in New Delh. PTI Photo

AA Edit | GST cess: Centre must act quickly, responsibly

The government must act wisely again and offer to meet its legal and moral obligation to the states when the Council...

7 Oct 2020 6:22 PM IST

New NCRB crime data reports 59,853 crimes against women from UP in 2019, the highest among states

AA Edit | Will the government pledge of peace, women's safety?

When the erstwhile government, which returned to power in 2019, said Beti Bachao, it was perhaps not a slogan. It was a...

3 Oct 2020 7:20 PM IST

- In this Oct. 29, 1990, file photo, security officers guard the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, closing off the disputed site claimed by Muslims and Hindus. AP Photo

AA Edit | Babri verdict ignores breach of rule of law

The judge points to the innocence of the leaders saying Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Ashok Singhal

2 Oct 2020 8:10 PM IST

The distress of migrant workers, gut-wrenchingly captured by this photograph of a child trying to wake its dead mother at a railway station in Bihar, surpassed even the horrors of the coronavirus pandemic itself.

AA Edit | Here's why this government is data shy

If a regime does not bother to gather data, it is careless. If that is willful, it is callous

25 Sept 2020 2:08 PM IST

A member of the Communist Party of India protests against the governments new legislations. (AFP)

AA Edit | New labour codes show government's disdain for workers

Every trade union, including the RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, has opposed the anti-labour provisions

25 Sept 2020 12:59 PM IST

A farmer wearing a face mask listens to a speaker during an anti-government protest in Bengaluru. (AP)

DC Edit | Stop lying that India's Covid response has not been a...

The death of a minister must force the government to do a rethink on its Covid-19 response

25 Sept 2020 2:55 AM IST

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah speaks to the media at Parliament House in New Delhi, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (PTI)

AA Edit | The reality in Kashmir is exactly as Dr Abdullah says it is

There is no stabilising centre left in the Valley now, thanks to communal fanaticism being propagated

25 Sept 2020 12:47 AM IST

The parliament of India building

DC Edit | Do regulate NGOs, but don't strangle them

The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Act has several crippling provisions

22 Sept 2020 8:34 PM IST