Opinion & Edits

The pandemic has shown up inequities and injustices of the old order

Cricket is no Corona Warrior

Govt has belatedly realised MGNREGA scheme's significance

Ved Marwah was a policeman who put women’s issues front and centre

A partner for nation-building

India’s voluntary sector does much more than fill gaps in the government’s service delivery system, and deserves to be recognised and treated with respect.

June 9, 1980, Forty Years Ago: New Ministers

Former Information and broadcasting minister V C Shukla has been given the civil supplies portfolio, former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh N D Tiwari has planning and former Bihar CM Kedar Pande got irrigation.

Delhi’s protocols on treatment can be uncoordinated and unscientific

This is a case of zero coordination, not updating the guidelines based on the latest science and continuing with three-months-old information on the part of the Delhi government.

India needs to urgently step into the domain of healthcare

One of the obvious reasons why public healthcare has not been a priority for successive governments of India lies in the fact that India’s middle class did not need it.

Muller’s tale

Story of Ghanaian footballer, stranded outside Mumbai airport, is a parable of individual decency, bureaucratic apathy.

Unlocking the farm

Amendment of Essential Commodities Act, end of monopoly of APMC mandis, send out a heartening message.

Not Delhi

AAP government decision to make Delhi residency criterion for care is indefensible. It should listen to LG, roll it back.

Averting hunger during monsoon calls for bold food security measures

The cash crunch is hindering the state governments’ relief efforts at every step. Centre must urgently provide additional foodgrain to poorest states for expanding PDS coverage.

China now has the military power to alter territorial status quo

The real challenge for Delhi in managing its expansive territorial dispute with Beijing, then, is to redress the growing power imbalance with China.

COVID pandemic will cause tectonic shifts in India’s medical education, health services

The world in general and education, in particular, is at a crossroads. With COVID-19, many of our beliefs and the systems we follow are bound to change.

Centre stage for Nature in post-pandemic economic recovery process

Trillions of dollars in COVID-19 relief must not reverse decades of environmental progress. No rescue of economy can happen without aligning restoration measures with global environmental goals.

Solving health crisis remains the most potent economic vaccine

Without finding a cure for the health crisis, there is precious little that fiscal and monetary policies can sustainably achieve.

Back to school? Probably not

Besides, amid such chaos and uncertainty, the kids are sad, too.

Pandemic offers chance to pursue an alternative model of urbanisation

With this major transformation and with the onset of COVID-19, it is surely the time to reconsider our habitation model.

Sonia Gandhi writes: This isn’t BJP vs Congress… use MNREGA to help people of India

Sonia Gandhi writes: “My appeal to government: MGNREGA is a powerful mechanism, please use it in the people’s time of need”

The call for self-reliance asks for a pragmatic development strategy to capitalise on India’s inherent strengths

As India looks at opening up after four phases of lockdown, it is seeking to find new doors and windows of opportunity.

It could help government to get closer to doubling farmers’ incomes by 2023

My humble suggestion is that if the PM can convert food and fertiliser subsidies into direct cash transfers, he will come closer to doubling farmers’ real incomes by 2022-23.

Delhi diktat

FIR on a hospital for procedural oversight in testing speaks of a high-handedness that is ill-advised, especially in crisis

Undoing the damage

Military talks between India and China are a good beginning. Delhi must push the process forward, carefully