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The fact that a probe has been ordered itself brings into focus the widely held view that the ruling party at the Centre had been playing toppling games through which non-BJP governments were targeted and brought down. (Representational image: PTI file photo)

DC Edit | K'taka: Lotus' probe welcome

This is a setback for the BJP as well as its Karnataka CM B.S. Yediyurappa who was charged with engineering the collapse...

2 April 2021 8:45 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks during the post-budget press conference, at National Media Centre in New Delhi, Monday, February. 1, 2021. (PTI/Arun Sharma)

DC Edit | Small savings U-turn: Bad economics, bizarre optics

The government may have calculated that if the interest rates are pushed down, it can borrow on better terms to meet its...

2 April 2021 8:37 AM IST

The traditional view that women are unsuited to combat roles may have caused these deep-seated inhibitions about promoting women even when they are otherwise as qualified as men who take up a career in the armed forces. (Representational Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | Army's male bias: Slap on the wrist for now from SC

It is the systemic discrimination that works against women in the Army and Navy that must be dismantled

27 March 2021 4:56 AM IST

The SC said the Facebook post would indicate that the editors agony was directed against the apathy shown by the Meghalaya CM, the DGP and the Dorbal Shnong (the local tribal council) in not taking action against the culprits. (Photo: Facebook @Patricia Mukhim).

DC Edit | Free speech: A morality tale

It was refreshing to find the Supreme Court last Thursday quash an FIR against Shillong Times editor Patricia Mukhim

27 March 2021 4:17 AM IST

The honourable body would have done greater justice to the Justice if they had considered making the proceeding as transparent as an example the apex court expects from other institutions and lesser mortals. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | Welcome Justice Ramana

SC has also wisely rejected a complaint by the AP CM, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, against Ramana in a case relating to the...

26 March 2021 4:47 AM IST

MLAs of Opposition parties, men and women, were dragged on the ground by the police who had been called in. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | Calling the cops on Opp.? Bihar ruckus probe must

In light of this, what was witnessed in the Bihar Assembly last Tuesday can only fill every Indian with shame

26 March 2021 4:37 AM IST

The government must further strengthen the inoculation programme and at the same time strictly impose Covid-appropriate protocol across the country. (Photo: AFP)

DC Edit | Shot eligibility expansion route out of return wave

The decision to open up the vaccination programme and include all those who are aged 45 years and above is a welcome...

25 March 2021 4:50 AM IST

The fact remains that New Delhi voted thus only with an eye on the Tamil Nadu voter rather than the empathetic first principles in favour of a people residing in northern Sri Lanka who are discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | Lanka: A lost opportunity

In abstaining from the vote on the UNHC resolution against Sri Lanka, India may have been attempting to find a pragmatic...

25 March 2021 4:06 AM IST

The Union government must use technology to the optimum to ensure that vaccine wastage is brought to a minimum. (Photo: AFP)

DC Edit | Rural surge scary, act now to stop second Covid wave

While the first phase of Covid wave was in the metros and big cities of the country, the recent surge is reported from...

19 March 2021 4:55 AM IST

A diverse, multiracial society like America must own up that it has a huge racial problem in which visibly successful migrants are increasingly the victims of racial abuse, harassment and violent hate crimes. (Photo: AFP)

DC Edit | Guns, racism & crime in US

As an epidemic, hate crime is on the rise in the USA, its graph exploding exponentially since the outbreak of the...

19 March 2021 4:12 AM IST

Chinas insistence that those who apply for a visa should have inoculated themselves with a Chinese-made vaccine defies logic and scientific principles, and reflects a total ignorance about the objective realities about the pandemic situation in the world. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | China's Catch-22 on vaccine

Vaccination for all must be a universal goal at present, and every nation, including China, should be part of it

18 March 2021 4:46 AM IST

The proposed change in law introduced by the Modi government will effectively render the Arvind Kejriwal government superfluous, practically reducing the present Delhi Assembly which was brought into existence in 1993 under the NCT Act- to a nullity. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | Why does Centre want a 'viceroy' to run Delhi?

Modi govt plans to constitutionally aggrandise the office of the lieutenant governor of Delhi at the expense of the...

18 March 2021 4:20 AM IST