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People wearing face masks stand in a queue as they wait at a bus stand, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Mumbai. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Cenrtre-state unity key to winning Covid fight

This is not the first time, though, the Union government has deputed its teams to the states but the results were not...

12 Jun 2020 7:18 PM IST

At a time of deep introspection over tragic events triggered by outright racial discrimination, sportsmen too must use the crisis as an opportunity for redemption

AA Edit | Racism: Its time to say sorry

The world of sport also stands exposed now as tales of racism and blatantly racist terms come tumbling out of the locker...

12 Jun 2020 5:30 PM IST

: Delhi BJP President Adesh Kumar Gupta holds a placard along with party MLAs during a protest against the Delhi Government over COVID-19 situation in the national capital, at Rajghat in New Delhi. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Coronavirus abets play of dirty electoral games

Seeing that the country's fight against the pandemic has not induced a cooperative outlook in the BJP toward political...

12 Jun 2020 5:00 PM IST

Minneapolis has 900 officers in its ranks and yet representation of the African American community therein is next to nil. AP Photo

AA Edit | Safety not so much as policing

With protests following Floyd's death claiming around 18 American lives, discussions are on as to how to accomplish the...

9 Jun 2020 8:26 PM IST

A farmer plows his field with the help of a tractor before planting paddy saplings, at a village on the outskirt of Amritsar. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Rural jobs scheme an unmissable solution

The scheme, introduced by the first UPA government in 2005, guaranteesmanual work to every adult in rural India for at...

9 Jun 2020 8:13 PM IST

The likes of Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma were fortunate not to have been booked because of the existence of the same kind of double standard. AP Photo

AA Edit | Double standards and how!

The criminalisation of every protest staged by aggrieved Indians is clear in all dissent being viewed as a potential law...

8 Jun 2020 5:54 PM IST

Most experts agree that the first such move, the national lockdown, indeed helped but the government did little to make use of the opportunity to prepare the nation for a successful engagement with the virus later on. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Centre can't stand by and watch at this critical hour

There are no immediate chances of the numbers going down what with the Union government allowing opening of more social...

8 Jun 2020 5:32 PM IST

In 2002, a pogrom in Gujarat when the Prime Minister was heading the state government there claimed over 1,000 Muslim lives. The perpetrators were not punished. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Muslim lives matter, but saying so will cost you

As the Black Lives Matter movement rages, ordinary Indian citizens have been silent in the face of glaring injustice...

6 Jun 2020 7:29 PM IST

In this file photo taken on May 27, 2020 policemen and onlookers stand near a dead pregnant wild elephant retrieved after it strayed into a village and ate an explosive-filled fruit, on the banks of the Velliyar River in Palakkad district of Kerala state. AFP Photo

AA Edit | No missed opportunity

There was no dearth of suggestive statements about the demography of Malappuram, the only Muslim-majority district in...

6 Jun 2020 7:09 PM IST

An activist holds a placard during a candlelit remembrance outside Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2020, after an annual vigil that traditionally takes place in the park to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown was banned on public health grounds because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. AP Photo

AA Edit | Pushed to the edge

The new law undercuts Article 18 of Hong Kong's Basic Law, which limits Beijing from applying national laws to the...

5 Jun 2020 5:29 PM IST

: Army personnel during a counter-infiltration operation along the Line of Control in Kalakote sector of Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Intimidation and defamation: BJP's twin strategies in J-K

Thousands of individuals, including the former state's most consequential political leaders as well as children were...

5 Jun 2020 5:08 PM IST

Representational image (AFP)

AA Edit | A reasonable upgrade

The annual summit has run into a maze of geopolitics with Germany opposing the re-inclusion of Russia

4 Jun 2020 5:34 PM IST