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A passenger undergoes screening after arriving at Kempegowda International airport for domestic travel, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Bengaluru. PTI Photo

DC Edit: Uncertainty as flights resume

Ideally, the civil aviation ministry should have consulted the states before taking its decision, but it went ahead on...

25 May 2020 5:51 PM IST

The Indo-China border (AFP)

DC Edit: Ignore China triggers, caving would be costly

This confrontation comes at an unfortunate moment when the world is combating the coronavirus pandemic

25 May 2020 5:36 PM IST

The toll would have been higher had the authorities both in West Bengal and Odisha not evacuated over seven lakh. PTI Photo

DC Edit: Will the non-BJP' tag deny Bengal relief?

The situation calls for sustained support to the people of West Bengal, not least among them newly-returned guest...

23 May 2020 5:10 PM IST

: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses a press conference to announce the fifth and final tranche of economic stimulus package, at the National Media Centre in New Delhi. PTI Photo

DC Edit: RBI cuts may be ineffectual

The overall focus of the RBI has been on boosting credit growth to drive economic growth

23 May 2020 4:29 PM IST

A demonstrator shouts slogans as she is detained by police during a protest against Indias newly inaugurated link road to the Chinese border, in Kathmandu. AFP Photo

DC Edit: Reach out, mend Nepal ties

India's relationship with South Asian countries is largely an unequal one, and it's really up to the bigger country to...

22 May 2020 8:27 PM IST

Migrant workers wait in a queue while being lodged at a camp by the Uttar Pradesh government, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, at Dadri. PTI Photo

DC Edit: To snub Priyanka, Yogi denies relief to thousands

All India Congress Committee general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra made an offer earlier this week to make 1,000 buses...

22 May 2020 8:05 PM IST

Two militants of the Hizbul Mujahideen, for all practical purposes the only home-grown armed extremist outfit in the valley, who had engaged the security forces were brought down and five jawans injured. AFP photo

DC Edit: Nawakadal's lesson

After J&K was reduced to a Union Territory last August, the government has been on the rampage, piling up human rights...

22 May 2020 6:22 PM IST

A passenger shows his train ticket at a railway reservation counter after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Hyderabad. AFP Photo

DC Edit: Telangana, listen to Centre, test more

The truth is either Telangana, nor any other Indian state, can afford to have a confrontation with Union government at...

22 May 2020 5:51 PM IST

China accuses India of crossing boundary line in Galwan Valley. (AFP Photo)

DC Edit: Soothe dragon's feathers

The Chinese may be making things just a bit more difficult for India when Nepal is revving up a territorial dispute with...

20 May 2020 8:07 PM IST

Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi has grandly announced about Rs 20 lakh crores worth stimulus package to support a wavering economy, the analysis of announcements made finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman showed that it was a mere jugglery to hog the limelight. PTI Photo

DC Edit: Cash relief is crucial, finance minister didn't acknowledge...

Instead of supporting the economy when it needed the most, Ms Sitharaman focused on medium and long term reforms

20 May 2020 7:51 PM IST

DC Edit: The gaslighting of government critics

DC Edit: The gaslighting of government critics

Saturday's attack on a Vizag doctor, who red-flagged the shortage of N-95 masks and PPE kits for nurses and doctors, is...

19 May 2020 7:39 PM IST

Auto-rickshaw drivers wait for customers along a road, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

DC Edit: India in luckdown 4.0

The government has not come up with a gameplan to tackle the virus neither in the first three editions of the lockdown...

19 May 2020 6:01 PM IST