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Petrol and diesel Prices. Image: PTI

DC Edit: Rallying with fuel

The Centre's decision to levy an excise duty of Rs 10 on a litre of petrol and Rs 13 on diesel would help in collecting...

9 May 2020 7:44 PM IST

Vapour billows out of LG Polymers Plant after a major chemical gas leak in RR Venkatapuram village near Visakhapatnam. (PTI)

Rude awakening from Vizag

India has never learnt to prepare for and prevent, even after Bhopal

9 May 2020 7:37 PM IST

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 7:24 PM IST

Migrants who were stranded in Chennai walk along a road towards their native place in Srikakulam, during the nationwide lockdown, imposed in wake of the coronavirus pandemic, in Vijayawada. PTI Photo

DC 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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DC Edit: Lessons, for bois'

Surely boys will also be bois ,They have been for ages

7 May 2020 6:25 PM IST

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DC 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...

7 May 2020 6:13 PM IST

In certain liberal democracies, such as the United States of America, this argument does hold up legally.

DC 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

Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard on a deserted road in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. AP Photo

DC 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 8:07 PM IST

An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard as police and army soldiers launch an operation in Awantipora area, south of Srinagar. AP 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

: Migrants from Madhya Pradesh walk along a road towards their native places during the nationwide lockdown, imposed in wake of the coronavirus pandemic, in Navi Mumbai. PTI Photo

DC 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

A migrant couple with their infant twins board a train to Jharkhand, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Jalandhar. PTI Photo

DC 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

Municipal corporation workers sanitize the premises of a quarantine centre during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Jabalpur. PTI Photo

DC 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 6:51 PM IST