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Migrant workers along with their family members walk to their villages, due to no means of transport, during the nationwide lockdown, near Anand Vihar railway station in New Delhi (PTI)

Anand K Sahay: India's working class as Little Red Riding Hood

Their lordships have evidently missed a trick or two in their officious lives

12 May 2020 5:48 PM IST

The government has not heeded the cash-strapped states demand for raising their borrowing limits but announced a massive hike of more than 50 per cent in its own numbers. AP Photo

AA Edit: Concerted efforts needed to tackle lockdown blues

The Central notification in force now mandates that all inter-state passengers undergo a 14-day quarantine

12 May 2020 5:14 PM IST

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. AFP Photo

AA Edit: Strong men no more

The chutzpah of Donald Trump boasting of having fared better might have Republican admirer, but everyone else is quite...

12 May 2020 4:53 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah chairs a review meeting of the Directors General of All Central Armed Police Forces, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Amit Shah dispels rumours

Mr Shah and his ministry have been engaged over the past few weeks in a series of confrontations with the West Bengal

11 May 2020 6:03 PM IST

Stranded migrants board a truck to reach their native places in Uttar Pradesh, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, at Bakania bypass in Bhopa. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Stop states from trampling over labour rights

The government must realise that it is illogical, undemocratic, immoral and inhuman to put the workers at the receiving...

11 May 2020 5:52 PM IST

Bharat PetroResources Ltd (BPRL), an exploration and production subsidiary of BPCL, had in August 2008 bought a 10 per cent stake in Area-1 Offshore of the Rovuma Block from the US energy major Anadarko Petroleum Corp for $75 million.

AA Edit: Rallying with fuel

The Centre's decision to levy an excise duty of Rs 10 on a litre of petrol and Rs 13 on diesel would help in collecting...

9 May 2020 7:44 PM IST

Police personnel along with officials walk on a rail track as they check the site following a train accident in Aurangabad district on Friday.(AFP)

The terrible injustice meted out to India's guest workers

They chose to walk home as they had no job, food, shelter or money; there was no government to attend to their basic...

9 May 2020 7:29 PM IST

Migrants from Madhya Pradesh walk along a road towards their native places during the nationwide lockdown, imposed in wake of the coronavirus pandemic, in Surat. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Centre must come with lockdown exit plan now

None questioned the wisdom of shutting the nation down when Mr Modi took the unprecedented decision, as the objective...

9 May 2020 7:24 PM IST

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AA Edit: Lessons, for bois'

Surely boys will also be bois ,They have been for ages

7 May 2020 6:27 PM IST

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AA Edit: Flights home: More optics, less mitigation

The increasing spread of Covid-19 and the stress on the medical infrastructure in those countries added to their worries

7 May 2020 6:17 PM IST

A staffer of the Supreme Court tested positive for coronavirus. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit: The wheels of e-justice

The Indian courts - High Courts as well as the Supreme Court - have proved adept at holding virtual hearings and...

6 May 2020 8:18 PM IST

Senior officers carry the coffin of the slain CRPF Constable C Chandra Shekhar, who was killed in a militant attack in Kupwara district, during a wreath laying ceremony at Humhama on the outskirts of Srinagar. PTI Photo

AA Edit: J-K attacks give the lie to govt's Art. 370 narrative

Pakistan-driven militancy tends to gain force when the rapport between the government and the people dissipates

6 May 2020 8:08 PM IST