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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

A security personnel patrols near the site of a gunbattle that occurred between security forces and a separatist group in Srinagar. AFP Photo

DC Edit: Why can't we curb J&K attacks?

As in every preceding summer, as the Himalayan snows melt, there is a resurgence in infiltration attempts across the...

6 May 2020 7:18 PM IST

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