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DC Edit | Will the government pledge of peace, women’s safety?Opinion
DC Edit | Will the government pledge of peace, women’s safety?

When the erstwhile government, which returned to power in 2019, said Beti Bachao, it was perhaps not a slogan. It was a...

3 Oct 2020 7:19 PM IST

US President Donald Trump looks at his mask as he speaks with Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden during the first presidential debate at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. AFP PhotoOpinion
DC Edit | Disruptor in White House

Sustaining freedom in the very country that has been a model to the rest of the free world in the post-modern era is...

2 Oct 2020 8:48 PM IST

- In this Oct. 29, 1990, file photo, security officers guard the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, closing off the disputed site claimed by Muslims and Hindus. AP PhotoOpinion
DC Edit | Babri verdict ignores breach of rule of law

The judge points to the innocence of the leaders saying Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Ashok Singhal

2 Oct 2020 8:10 PM IST

The distress of migrant workers, gut-wrenchingly captured by this photograph of a child trying to wake its dead mother at a railway station in Bihar, surpassed even the horrors of the coronavirus pandemic itself.Opinion
DC Edit | Here-'s why this government is data shy

If a regime does not bother to gather data from states, it is careless. If this is willful, it is callous

25 Sept 2020 2:06 PM IST

A member of the Communist Party of India protests against the governments new legislations. (AFP)Opinion
DC Edit | New labour codes show government-'s disdain for workers

Every trade union, including the RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, has opposed the anti-labour provisions

25 Sept 2020 12:56 PM IST

A farmer wearing a face mask listens to a speaker during an anti-government protest in Bengaluru. (AP)Opinion
DC Edit | Stop lying that India-'s Covid response has not been a...

The death of a minister must force the government to do a rethink on its Covid-19 response

25 Sept 2020 2:50 AM IST

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah speaks to the media at Parliament House in New Delhi, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (PTI)Opinion
DC Edit | The reality in Kashmir is exactly as Dr Abdullah says it is

There is no stabilising centre left in the Valley now, thanks to communal fanaticism being propagated

25 Sept 2020 12:44 AM IST

Ruckus erupts in the Rajya Sabha as Opposition rushes to Well of House over agriculture related bills, during the ongoing Monsoon Session, at Parliament House in New Delhi on Sunday. PTI photoOpinion
DC Edit | Do regulate NGOs, but don’t strangle them

The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Act has several crippling provisions

22 Sept 2020 8:29 PM IST

A homeless woman sleeps on a deserted platform of the Lokmanya Tilak train terminus in Mumbai. (File photo: AP)Opinion
DC Edit | Tackle corona or face the voter-'s ire

A renewed urgency and a prompter response is the absolute need of the hour

22 Sept 2020 8:03 PM IST

Umar KhalidOpinion
DC Edit | Gross misuse of anti-terrorism laws

Delhi police arrested Umar Khalid, a former student leader of the Jawaharlal Nehru University for ‘inciting...

16 Sept 2020 6:17 PM IST

In this file photo dated Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, RJD Vice-President Raghuvansh Prasad Singh addresses a press conference at party office in Patna.PTI PhotoOpinion
DC Edit | Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, the mathematician whose formula...

Dr Singh, a PhD in mathematics and a former professor, had his political baptism in the Jayaprakash movement against...

15 Sept 2020 5:40 PM IST

Pinjra Tod began as a women students collective against oppressive and unjust practices within universities. Twitter ImageOpinion
DC Edit | Investigation into Delhi riots is turning into a...

Clearly, these new “revelations” strategically hyped by the police is part of its partisan agenda to discredit the...

14 Sept 2020 7:20 PM IST

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