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Thanks to a consensus among all political parties that the right to choose who will benefit should devolve to the states, the role of the Centre is being willingly surrendered in this push for sharing of the power to decide who will get reservations in education and government jobs. Representational Image. (Twitter)

AA Edit | Expediency behind unity of govt & Opp. on OBC quotas

The amendment to the Constitution allows states to determine which of the OBC groups are eligible to get the benefits of...

13 Aug 2021 1:13 AM IST

Now, the cases heard by the Supreme Court have anywhere between two and 30 parties. Who decides who will be unmuted? (PTI)

AA Edit | Crime and the legislator: SC does its bit to sever link

Supreme Court seeks better accountability and transparency from the executive branch of government and the political...

12 Aug 2021 2:22 AM IST

Kapil Sibal (Twitter)

AA Edit | Few buy Sibal's proposition

There were also voices that urged the Congress that it should get its house in order

12 Aug 2021 1:41 AM IST

In this March 26, 2021, file photo, a member of the Philadelphia Fire Department prepares a dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site setup at a Salvation Army location in Philadelphia. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Shot in arm for vaccine effort

Johnson & Johnson, the US-based company applied for EUA on Friday and was granted it the same day by the Drugs...

9 Aug 2021 2:46 AM IST

It is moot whether Neeraj has opened the floodgates to Olympic gold medals but what is assured is there will be no dearth from now of athletes striving to achieve their dreams. (PTI)

AA Edit | Neeraj Chopra lights a flame for Indian sport

It took a farmer's son from India's wheat granary Haryana to put India on the athletics map

9 Aug 2021 12:34 AM IST

A video which has surfaced shows that a three-wheeler auto-rickshaw headed straight for the judge on an empty stretch of the road. (Twitter)

AA Edit | Crack down on judge's killers

We hope the CBI will receive the clearance to take up the matter without delay

2 Aug 2021 2:28 AM IST

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