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There were the penniless but luckier migrant workers in their thousands travelling on the Shramik special trains paying the normal ticket fair and an extra Rs 50 for the ride which will take them home. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Flower showers as newly jobless pay to go home

While the Union government was busy arranging the aircraft and the petal shower, the nation was witnessing certain...

6 May 2020 6:59 PM IST

Migrant workers arrive to board a special Maharashtra-bound train to reach their homes, amid ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, at Rayanapadu Railway station near Vijayawada. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Sonia's offer' stings Modi govt

The government, stung and taken aback by the Congress president's offer to pay for the travel of every needy worker and...

5 May 2020 7:11 PM IST

A Border Security Force (BSF) official notes details of Pakistani nationals crossing the Indo-Pak border, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, near Attari in Amritsar district. PTI Photo

AA edit: Defining new normal in life after Covid-19

No human life is expendable, and the governments at the Centre and in the states will have to negotiate a tough path to...

5 May 2020 6:52 PM IST

AA edit: Ravaged world of arts

AA edit: Ravaged world of arts

The departure of the more creative ones among them leaves an ache in us

2 May 2020 7:24 PM IST

Migrants carrying their luggage arrive at the District Collectors office for arrangements to return to their native places, amid ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Bengaluru. PTI Photo

AA edit: There's a gameplan, but poor not counted

One sore point in India's battle against the pandemic is its neglect of the real poor

2 May 2020 6:58 PM IST

Legally, with the Supreme Court having pronounced its verdict, each individual, group, party and organisation has the democratic right to challenge it, call for a review petition and so forth.

AA edit: Protect worthy institutions

The latest assertion of the apex court that NEET score is applicable in minorities-run institutions is welcome

1 May 2020 8:20 PM IST

Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray receives Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at Vidhan Bhavan for State Assembly session. (Photo: Debasish Dey)

AA edit: Maharashtra governor has his task cut out

Mr Koshyari's inaction on the Cabinet's recommendation only helps the BJP which suggests that the governor is not acting...

1 May 2020 8:03 PM IST

Government doctors sit inside a bus to go to the districts to serve as reinforcements during the nationwide coronavirus lockdown in Kolkata on March 27, 2020. (AFP)

DC Edit: Protect the doctors

Every medical professional is precious for India

31 March 2020 8:07 AM IST

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