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In November, Chinese President Xi Jinping had instructed officials to expedite construction of the new railway project, connecting Sichuan Province and Nyingchi in Tibet. (AFP Photo)

AA Edit | Take note of grim signals redacted from Xi speech

In his hour-long address, Xi noted that 'on the journey ahead' the country and the Party 'should always be prepared for...

3 July 2021 12:30 AM IST

Fuel prices differ from state to state depending on the incidence of local taxes such as VAT and freight charges. (Photo: File/PTI)

AA Edit | Fuel price paradox

The cascading effect of the fuel price rise is reflected in price escalation in goods as milk to cement prices spiral...

2 July 2021 12:36 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (PTI)

AA Edit | SC nudge on Covid ex-gratia exposes govt sloth, red tape

The court's decision has come against the government's position that it did have the money but its focus is on providing...

2 July 2021 12:31 AM IST

Lakshadweep and its people are geo-politically and strategically important to India. (Twitter)

AA Edit | Stop govt repression of Lakshadweep residents

The Union government must act, and act quickly and undo the damage the administrator has done

28 May 2021 1:57 AM IST

Around 92 per cent people in the survey said they will not use Whatsapp payment features if the app shares information with Facebook and third parties. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Minimise curbs on social media

What is needed is a nuanced approach to find a balance between the right to privacy and the need to allow action against...

28 May 2021 1:06 AM IST

Subodh Kumar Jaiswal has been appointed as the new CBI Director. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | CJI plays a judicious hand

Chief Justice N.V. Ramana, proposed that a Supreme Court judgment of March 2019 be extended to the post of CBI director...

27 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait holds a black flag during a protest against the farm laws marking a Black Day, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Protest in time of Covid needs urgent resolution

The government has been playing hot and cold on the issue of these farm laws

27 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Palestinians run from sound grenades thrown by Israeli police in front of the Dome of the Rock in the al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem, Friday, May 21, 202, as a cease-fire took effect between Hamas and Israel after a 11-day war. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

AA Edit | Israel's Gaza war ends, but will peace endure?

The ultimate solution lies in the two-State principle granting recognition to a homeland for the Palestinian people

22 May 2021 2:15 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 | Live-in ties: Courts confused?

It is time the apex court considered coming out with another set of guidelines for considering cases such as live-in...

22 May 2021 1:48 AM IST

A motorist and a woman wade through a waterlogged street after heavy rains in Ahmedabad, India, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Cyclone Tauktae, the most powerful storm to hit the region in more than two decades, packed sustained winds of up to 210 kilometers per hour when it came ashore in Gujarat state late Monday. (AP/Ajit Solanki)

AA Edit | In Tauktae's path

Weather events like annual tropical storms in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea are bound to get more severe as time...

20 May 2021 8:09 AM IST

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan with Governor Arif Mohammed Khan. (PTI)

AA Edit | Pinarayi springs surprises, Kerala gets new-look govt

Explanations apart, the new team will have to compete against the record of its predecessor and prove its mettle

20 May 2021 8:06 AM IST

The J&K media, which has been walking on the razors edge for the last several decades, has already registered their strong protest against the new fiat. (Representational Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Help media protect rights

The police can, of course, impose reasonable restrictions, of which the people of J&K and the media there have quite a...

9 April 2021 4:56 AM IST