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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

An artist makes a coronavirus themed idol for Puja festivities at a workshop at Kumartuli, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Kolkata. PTI photo

AA Edit | Rein in festive cheer

Experts have been warning for quite some time about the festivals torpedoing the efforts to contain the pandemic

21 Oct 2020 9:54 AM IST

A paramilitary soldier stands guard by a road near the venue for Indias Independence Day ceremony in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. (AP)

AA Edit | J&K district councils not a good-faith move

The case of J&K is going to be little different from that of Ladakh, at least for the foreseeable future

21 Oct 2020 9:45 AM IST

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks with senior members of parliament a day after her landslide election win, in Auckland on October 18, 2020. (AFP)

AA Edit | A win for liberal-left

However, as far as her progressive agenda is concerned, it is unclear whether Ardern's government has the economic chops...

19 Oct 2020 10:16 AM IST

A man walks balancing a basket on his head at a vegetable market in Lucknow, India. (AP)

AA Edit | India indicted by global hunger index

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2020 published this week has put India behind most of its south Asian neighbours,...

19 Oct 2020 10:07 AM IST