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Prime minister Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses the nation on the coronavirus pandemic on March 24, 2020. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit: PM promotes himself, but opposition rises to the occasion

The outcomes of ad hoc decisions could have been anticipated

31 March 2020 6:43 AM IST

A statue of a discus thrower stands opposite Athens Panathenaic stadium or Kalimarmaro, where the first modern Olympic Games began, in Athens, one day after the historic decision to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Japan on March 25 started the unprecedented task of reorganising the Tokyo Olympics after the historic decision to postpone the worlds biggest sporting event due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that has locked down one third of the planet. (AFP)

AA Edit: Olympics makes the sacrifice

There can be no winner in this battle against Covid-19, only survivors

26 March 2020 6:50 PM IST

A homeless woman sleeps on a deserted platform of the Lokmanya Tilak train terminus in Mumbai. (File photo: AP)

AA Edit: Centre must plan for Lakshman Rekha

The Lakshman Rekha poses no hazard to those who have an assured income but what about the 50 crore daily-wage earners?

26 March 2020 6:32 PM IST

AA Edit: Suspend equity market for now

AA Edit: Suspend equity market for now

Foreign investors are dumping Indian stocks every day as if there is no future

24 March 2020 6:52 AM IST

People clap and clang utensils as a gesture to show gratitude to the medical practitioners fighting the coronavirus in Bikaner, Rajasthan on March 22, 2020. PM Modi proposed a Janta curfew between 7 am and 9 pm as part of social distancing to check the spread of the deadly virus. (PTI)

AA Edit: Playing to the gallery amid pandemic

Was this yet another excuse to reshape India into an obedient population?

24 March 2020 6:37 AM IST

The scene outside the Tihar jail at dawn when the rape convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case were hanged.

AA Edit: Nirbhaya hangings were nothing to gloat about

Reactions from either side of the ideological divide were bereft of sobriety

21 March 2020 12:35 AM IST

Modi speaks and a huge majority of over a billion follow.

AA Edit: Shot off the citizen's shoulder, PM's salvo finds the target

When Modi appeals, citizens listen, as they did when they stood patiently in queues outside ATMs

21 March 2020 12:26 AM IST

This is a breach of the right to privacy.

AA Edit: Why does the government need cell phone data now?

The directive to telecom operators to provide CDRs of all mobile phone users in the country raises suspicions of...

20 March 2020 2:31 PM IST

People wearing protective masks in to protect against the coronavirus pandemic walk along the Ramlala market in Ayodhya on March 14, 2020. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath is planning to hold a massive congregation of religious seers on the occasion of Ram Navami at Ayodhya from March 25 to April 2 despite the threat of the coronavirus (Covid-19). (PTI)

AA Edit: Ram Navami meeting at Ayodhya is an invitation to disaster

And Narendra Modi is having to choose between the holy men at the core of his constituency and his responsibilities as...

20 March 2020 12:42 PM IST

In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, the then chief justice of India justice Ranjan Gogoi seen during the 18th late Dharamnath Prasad Kohli memorial lecture organised by the CBI in New Delhi. President Ram Nath Kovind nominated Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha on March 16, 2020. (PTI)

AA EDIT: Gogoi's RS nomination sends wrong signal

Justice Gogoi had a destructive influence as a strongman judge

18 March 2020 12:01 AM IST

Sanjay Manjrekar

AA EDIT: Bring back Sanjay Manjrekar

As an individual, he has every right to hold an opinion on public issues

18 March 2020 12:01 AM IST

Madhya Pradesh governor Lalji Tandon and chief minister Kamal Nath arrive for the budget session of the state Assembly in Bhopal on March 16, 2020. (PTI)

AA EDIT: Can the BJP topple Kamal Nath?

The legislature belongs to the people's reps and is run by the speaker, not the governor

17 March 2020 9:29 AM IST