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As US President Joe Biden reinvigorates his tariff war with India and gets ready for his European trip later this week, the message that is emanating from Washington is that the President wants to reposition his country in the world stage after having busied himself...

When the head of India’s coronavirus taskforce, Dr VK Paul, said June 5 that the country has overtaken the United States in terms of the number of people who have received their first shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, he was rather too economical on truth....

The National Democratic Alliance government marked its seventh anniversary at the end of last month. Celebrations were muted because of the sickness and death that the pandemic has brought to us. But the prime minister did put out a document on the achievements of the...

In the context of the second Covid surge, a group of 116 former civil servants has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the government of not addressing the crucial issues at stake. What makes this “open letter” significant is that the signatories include former...

Mark Lowcock & Raj Shah When the Covid-19 pandemic began in March 2020, Afghanistan had only 300 ventilators and two intensive-care units. Early epidemiological models predicted that the country, with a population of about 38 million, would experience a peak of up to 520,000 cases...

It’s not just what you eat that is killing the earth and all its inhabitants. It is also what you wear. Every time you buy an article of clothing you make a choice between the biosphere and the lithosphere. The biosphere is an agricultural field...

It is an irony that the Supreme Court had to remind the Centre that it has to procure COVID-19 vaccines and distribute them throughout the country instead of leaving the States to fend for themselves since Article 1 of the Constitution says India or Bharat...

The current crop of top BJP leadership, it seems, hasn’t learnt or, even worse, refuses to learn any lesson from the egregious mistake of its senior leaders when they made the cruel joke of “India Shining” campaign in 2004 to cover AB Vajpayee-government’s failure. Many...

Lakshadweep islands across 12 atolls, closest to Kerala, constitute India’s least populated Union Territory with a population size of 65,000 living in only 10 of its 36 islands. It is now making national headlines for a series of controversial proposals mooted by Praful K Patel,...

India’s foreign minister was till Saturday on a visit to the United States. The first half of his trip was apparently not very productive because the person he had come to meet, the American secretary of state (which is their title for foreign minister) had...