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Spying Dragon

Disturbing reports have surfaced about suspected Chinese hackers doing cyber espionage to ferret out information about Covid-19 vaccines being produced in India and also the supply and distribution chains of vaccines in the US. Now Chinese hackers are also credited to have wreaked havoc on...

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Lamenting Cylinder

LPG cylinder price has shot up by Rs 100 within a month, touching Rs 845 in the East Zone, with the last hike of Rs 25 taking effect on March 1. This increase, if considered from December 2020 has been to the tune of Rs...

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Wipe Out Blemish

The vitriolic criticism by some social media users, directed against additional sessions judge of a Delhi court Dharmender Rana, has surprised many. Judge Rana made certain pronouncements on the Disha Ravi toolkit case wherein he upheld the values of freedom of speech and granted her...

Aakar Patel

Whither rights

The Washington Post’s editorial board has written that India’s claim of being a democracy should be put in question. This headline came after it summed up what was happening in India accurately across the spectrum of governance, from the farm laws being passed without voting...

Dilip Cherian

8 IFS officers to be empanelled as JS

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has been quite keen to add more joint secretaries to the diplomatic pool to staff new embassies and consulates being set up in various countries. Now, after some wait, headway has been made in this direction with the government...

Farming needs more

The state government has set out to spend an estimated Rs 1.70 lakh crore in the 2021-22 financial year – a rise of over 13 per cent over the last year’s annual Budget. The annual credit plan for the year 2021-22 has been enhanced to...

No happy cows

India has the world’s largest number of cattle. They are not being worshipped in temples, they are not ambling through the countryside eating as they move. They are being hit by farmers in whose fields they come to eat, they are being thrown acid on...

Learn To Question

The egregiously false claim made in the presence of Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan by Baba Ramdev that his Patanjali product Coronil is the “first evidence-based medicine for Covid-19” having World Health Organisation (WHO) certification has shocked the medical community and brought into focus the...

Political Fuel

This government, claiming to be the strongest ever, now seems to be lurching from one crisis to another and it seeks remedies not by looking within itself but by blaming everyone else. The blame game happening now, in the seventh straight year of being in...

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Managing Headlines

The farmers’ agitation against the farm laws that put the government in a bad light both nationally and internationally is now pushed out of the main media headlines. Instead, a sideshow - the arrest of pro-farmer environment activist, Disha Ravi and proceedings in the court...

 

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