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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...

The reaction of the Delhi Police, which is under the direct control and supervision of the Union government, to a dozen or so young men sticking posters on some walls in the national capital can only be termed as hilariously idiotic. The posters being stuck...

He is a famous name in war but Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery does not have many battlefield victories to his name. In fact, his most famous engagement, called Operation Market Garden (after which the Hollywood movie ‘A Bridge Too Far’ was made) was a disaster....

Is India’s fabled ‘steel frame’ only creaking or is it screaming? The coronavirus pandemic surge has devastated big cities including the Capital and brought the healthcare system to its knees. India has now been recording the highest number of new coronavirus cases in the world...

Dani Rodrik Neoliberalism is dead. Or perhaps it remains very much alive. Pundits have been calling it both ways these days. But either way, it is hard to deny that something new is afoot in the world of economic policy. US President Joe Biden has...

Fabio Panetta The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the largest decrease in global economic activity on record. But the drop in carbon dioxide emissions has been only temporary. Although global CO2 emissions fell by 6.4 per cent overall in 2020, they had already begun to increase...

At a time when India is fast turning into a crematorium due to the fury of the second wave of COVID-19, a ruthless and cynical private business has started within the country and outside over the production and supply of vaccines to tackle the pandemic....

The Centre seems to have lost its direction and priorities in battling the COVID-19 pandemic forcing millions to run helplessly from pillar to post to get oxygen, vaccines, immunity boosting drugs and beds in hospitals. In the process, thousands are dying daily and lakhs are...