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Finally, the Centre seems to be waking up from its deep slumber and has sent External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to the USA for shopping for vaccines produced by manufacturers in the USA. Despite its bravado, procrastination has been the hallmark of the Centre’s response...

US President Joe Biden once famously told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing him by his nickname, Bibi, that he did not agree with a “damn thing” he said, but he loved him. This was in response to Netanyahu’s endearing words for Biden whom he...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to blame states and government officials for the Centre’s utter failure to provide vaccines for people against COVID-19. While the states have been left in the lurch, whether it be procurement of vaccines or oxygen and medicines for citizens, the...

Twitter has marked tweets by Bharatiya Janata Party figures including its spokesman Sambit Patra as “manipulated media”. The BJP publicised what it said was a Congress toolkit to defame India. But the fact checking website Altnews showed that this content the BJP was showing was...

A district Women and Child Development (WCD) officer in the Mahasamund district of Chhattisgarh is on a crusade against departmental corruption. He has gone on a hunger strike for the government’s inaction in a `30 lakh corruption case related to various state government schemes. Though...

Shang-Jin Wei China’s recently released population census confirms the persistence of the country’s alarming excess of males relative to the global norm. This numerical imbalance from birth onward has several significant economic implications – and not only for China. Because women live longer than men...

The day that the COVID testing team (I have no idea where they came from. There are so many astronaut like creatures floating about from so many different departments, governments, hospitals, testing centres, that I stopped wondering a long time ago and now just meekly...

The resignation of senior virologist Shahid Jameel as head of the Indian SARS-COV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), a forum of scientific advisers set up by the government to detect variants of the coronavirus, is a great setback to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic at the...

After the government’s abysmal performance in vaccinating the country against COVID-19, here comes a new ‘remedy’ from the BJP’s stable. This time it is Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, BJP’s Lok Sabha MP from Bhopal, who has prescribed consumption of ‘gau mutra’ (cow urine) of a...

A new drama is being enacted in Bengal. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested two high profile state ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, a ruling Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra and former Kolkata Municipal Corporation Mayor Sovan Chatterjee from their homes on May...