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Migrant workers wait in a queue while being lodged at a camp by the Uttar Pradesh government, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, at Dadri. PTI Photo

AA Edit: To snub Priyanka, Yogi denies relief to thousands

All India Congress Committee general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra made an offer earlier this week to make 1,000 buses...

22 May 2020 8:05 PM IST

Two militants of the Hizbul Mujahideen, for all practical purposes the only home-grown armed extremist outfit in the valley, who had engaged the security forces were brought down and five jawans injured. AFP photo

AA Edit: Nawakadal's lesson

After J&K was reduced to a Union Territory last August, the government has been on the rampage, piling up human rights...

22 May 2020 6:22 PM IST

Migrant workers waits at a temporary shelter to register for free travel on a train, during lockdown to prevent the spread of new coronavirus on the outskirts of Hyderabad. AP Photo

AA Edit: Telangana, listen to Centre, test more

The truth is either Telangana, nor any other Indian state, can afford to have a confrontation with Union government at...

22 May 2020 5:51 PM IST

China accuses India of crossing boundary line in Galwan Valley. (AFP Photo)

AA Edit: Soothe dragon's feathers

The Chinese may be making things just a bit more difficult for India when Nepal is revving up a territorial dispute with...

20 May 2020 8:08 PM IST

Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi has grandly announced about Rs 20 lakh crores worth stimulus package to support a wavering economy, the analysis of announcements made finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman showed that it was a mere jugglery to hog the limelight. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Cash relief is crucial, finance minister didn't acknowledge...

Instead of supporting the economy when it needed the most, Ms Sitharaman focused on medium and long term reforms

20 May 2020 7:51 PM IST

Post-Covid, it wont be a kinder India even if it is a kinder world. PTI Photo

AA Edit: The gaslighting of government critics

Saturday's attack on a Vizag doctor, who red-flagged the shortage of N-95 masks and PPE kits for nurses and doctors, is...

19 May 2020 7:39 PM IST

Doctors and medical staff attend residents at a COVID-19 coronavirus community clinic during a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Mumbai. PTI Photo

AA Edit: India in luckdown 4.0

The government has not come up with a gameplan to tackle the virus neither in the first three editions of the lockdown...

19 May 2020 6:01 PM IST

Bayern Munichs French defender Benjamin Pavard (hidden) scores their second goal during the German first division Bundesliga football match FC Union Berlin v FC Bayern Munich on May 17, 2020 in Berlin. AFP Photo

AA Edit: Sport ushers in brave new era

In-arena spectators are no more the lifeline of sport, which these days television audiences with their purchasing...

18 May 2020 7:17 PM IST

A stranded student from northeast holds a leafy branch to protect himself from scorching heat. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Kudos for self-reliance, but priority is handing out cash

Sadly, the efforts the government has made to manage the headlines do not seem to square with the horrors seen on the...

18 May 2020 7:04 PM IST

A health worker conducts thermal screening of migrants travelling from Mumbai to their native places, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lcockdown, in Nadia district. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Don't dilute labour laws

The attack on the labour laws was initiated in Uttar Pradesh where the government has cleared an ordinance suspending 35...

16 May 2020 7:57 PM IST

Stranded migrant labourers in Chennai, in southeastern India, prepare to board a special train to take them home after the government eased lockdown measures (AFP)

Coronavirus exposes our democracy's fault lines

Indian economy is certainly facing a crisis. This, however, does not justify use of violence against migrant labourers

16 May 2020 7:52 PM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses the fourth part of her press conference on the economic stimulus package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the National Media Centre, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Instead of booster shot, FM hints at future relief

Deflation was something that India has never witnessed and is considered worse than benign inflation for the growth of...

16 May 2020 7:32 PM IST