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Underlying the fragility of the security situation, the home ministers arrival was preceded by the detention or arrest of around one thousand young people. (PTI)

DC Edit | Shah's presence in J&K can't hide security mess

Government claims as regards terrorism are inconsistent with reality, and are not new

25 Oct 2021 2:03 AM IST

Sri Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Narendra Modi

DC Edit | Be friend in need to Colombo

A historic turn of events came with the ending of the war with the Liberation Tigers in 2009 but India has lost much...

22 Oct 2021 3:49 AM IST

Floods and landslides have become natures habit in recent times and this is entirely due to plain disregard of recommendations of a series of expert committees set up by the government itself or by the Supreme-Court, typically after a disaster has struck. Representational Image. (PTI)

DC Edit | Govt put greed over need, brace for more disasters

Aerial surveys ministers are plain political gimmicks when what is needed is resolve to preserve fragile ecological...

22 Oct 2021 3:09 AM IST

Commercial services from Orvakal Airport in Kurnool will commence from March 28 onwards. (Representational Photo: AFP)

DC Edit | Ready for post-Covid takeoff

Domestic air passenger traffic had already risen 74 per cent annually and three per cent sequentially to 6.9 million...

15 Oct 2021 12:36 AM IST

Congress delegation led by Rahul Gandhi calling on President Ramnath Kovind with demands that support the cause of the farmers. (PTI)

DC Edit | Lakhimpur: Backlash gives Opp. a fighting chance

All sorts of organisational preparations have commenced, keeping the poll in mind

15 Oct 2021 12:36 AM IST

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) President Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin before taking oath as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. (PTI)

DC Edit | DMK: Great expectations

The overwhelming victory of DMK in the rural body elections is a sign of the great expectations

14 Oct 2021 7:34 AM IST

A health worker carries vials of the Covaxin vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus at a health centre in New Dehi. (Photo: AFP)

DC Edit | Validation glimmer for Covaxin, hope for parents

The two-dose vaccine will be administered with a gap of 28 days

14 Oct 2021 7:26 AM IST

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma. (Photo:Twitter)

DC Edit | Himanta's scaremongering

Himanta Biswa Sarma said Assam was on the way to becoming the next Kashmir. What exactly does he mean?

23 Sept 2021 3:08 AM IST

US President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 7, 2020, after being declared the winner of the US presidential election. (AFP)

DC Edit | UNGA: Words reassuring but actions don't add up

Warning from Antonio Guterres that the world faces the greatest cascade of crises in our lifetime, was accurate enough...

23 Sept 2021 2:56 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street in central London on October 31, 2020 to announce new lockdown restrictions in an effort to curb rising infections of the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

DC Edit | Johnson eyes re-election

Hints of a Tory meritocracy are to be seen as two women and two from ethnic minorities are in four seats of power

17 Sept 2021 3:06 AM IST

Telecom industry revenue expected to rise 14-15% in current fiscal. (PTI Photo)

DC Edit | Telecom relief package comes in nick of time

The most prominent decision taken by the Cabinet is a moratorium on the spectrum and AGR payments up to four years from...

17 Sept 2021 2:00 AM IST

Over 1,000 people were killed and hundreds wounded on April 13, 1919 when British troops fired indiscriminately on an unarmed gathering of thousands who had assembled in Jallianwala Bagh in Punjab. (Photo: Pinterest)

DC Edit | Preserve, donâ€™t erase, heritage

It is understood that the Gujarat government is going ahead with a massive plan to -'renovate-' the Sabarmati Ashram

3 Sept 2021 2:31 AM IST