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India is in the throes of a terrible viral epidemic. Much worse than the bird flu, much worse than the swine flu. It has 91% mortality and, while it is mainly dogs, it can spread to cats of all kinds as well and God knows...

All of us would remember this day one year ago. The nation was pushed into a so called ‘Janata Curfew’ and Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked citizens to bang gongs and ring bells, we were told, to scare away the coronavirus by creating a vibration...

The exodus of refugees from Myanmar (Burma) escaping crackdown by the military junta of that country to the bordering Indian state of Mizoram has created a diplomatic-humanitarian dilemma for India. The repression by the junta since it engineered a coup February 1 to deny power...

India needs to tread cautiously while intensifying defence cooperation with the US Commands in the Indo-Pacific region and Africa ostensibly to checkmate China. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh sounded confident during a joint media address along with US Secretary of Defence General (Retd) Lloyd James Austin...

One of the problems of writing in these times is that little makes sense. There is no real connection to reality with news and therefore commenting on it, which is the work I am doing here, is useless. There is no role for an analyst...

The merger of the Jammu & Kashmir cadre into the UT cadre, among other things, is meant to address the old problem of the acute shortage of IAS officers in the Union territory. The erstwhile J&K cadre had a stipulated strength of 137 IAS officers...

Paddy procurement has always been a problem area in our state. Every year, the government receives flak for its inept handling of the programme. The Odisha State Civil Supplies Corporation (OSCSC), the key player of the state’s `12,000 crore plus paddy procurement programme, has not...

Maneka Gandhi In 1987, a street litter of a month old puppies, being fed by me, started dying at an alarming rate. The splotches of blood in their stool were diagnosed as parasitic worms. The ill-informed vet immediately gave them deworming tablets (which is a...

The two-day national strike called by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), an umbrella body of nine bank unions, to register their protest against the Centre’s proposed privatisation and disinvestment plan, entered the second day on March 16 causing widespread hardships to customers across...

The run-up to the Assembly polls in West Bengal has grabbed national headlines for the fierce fight being witnessed between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP. It is more so because of the injuries Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sustained hours after she filed her...