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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

A homeless woman sleeps on a deserted platform of a Lokmanya Tilak train terminus in Mumbai, March 23, 2020. As India expanded its virus-containment measures and halted its lifeblood train network, the federal government warned Monday of strict legal action for those who flout the rules. (AP)

AA Edit | Tackle corona or face the voter's ire

A renewed urgency and a prompter response is the absolute need of the hour

22 Sept 2020 8:07 PM IST

Social activists display placards during a press conference over police probe on Delhi riots cases, at Press Club of India in New Delhi

AA Edit | Gross misuse of anti-terrorism laws

Delhi police arrested Umar Khalid, a former student leader of the Jawaharlal Nehru University for inciting violence'...

16 Sept 2020 6:17 PM IST

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh

AA Edit | Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, the mathematician whose formula...

Dr Singh, a PhD in mathematics and a former professor, had his political baptism in the Jayaprakash movement against...

15 Sept 2020 5:40 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 | Investigation into Delhi riots is turning into a...

Clearly, these new revelations strategically hyped by the police is part of its partisan agenda to discredit the...

14 Sept 2020 7:20 PM IST