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The government says we averted between 37,000 and 71,000 deaths by having the nationwide lockdown. It says that studies show that India could have had between 14 lakh and 29 lakh COVID-19 cases to date if the two lockdowns had not been ordered. The government,...

The plight of migrant workers has moved many people during this lockdown, but perhaps not the Karnataka government. In a surprise move, it transferred senior IAS officer and principal secretary of the Labour Department, P. Manivannan, without giving him a new posting, and replaced him...

The poignant sight of migrant labourers heading home, from one part of the country to another, will be etched in public memory years after the COVID-19 would go behind us. Emaciated people carrying their small belongings as they trudge thousands of kilometers in the absence...

One of the effects of this corona pandemic is to make you think about your lungs and respiratory system. Can you breathe easily? It is vitally important to protect your lungs. There are things you cannot control individually -- like air pollution, unless you have...

Clearly, the Congress party has taken the wind out of the sails of the ruling BJP in the way the migrant labour issue was handled by the Union government. The belated attempts by the Modi government, to include a fund component for migrants in the...

The fear of coronavirus seems to have straightened a lot of us unruly Indians. We have heard Mahatma Gandhi adopted the Civil Disobedience path to irritate the British rulers and that instrument was a great help in the struggle for freedom. Gandhi obviously knew the...

In the backdrop or pretext of COVID-19, several major decisions are coming out from the Central government. The fourth tranche of stimulus measures announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is noted mainly for the decisions to privatize many sectors from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)...

One of the things that we have understood across the world is that an epidemic can only be contained if individuals and governments work together. The rules and laws are that we must wash our hands with soap frequently and avoid touching our face if...

Punjab chief secretary Karan Avtar Singh is caught in a controversy that could have political repercussions. Predictably it’s clear CM Amarinder Singh is going to let the slugfest between his colleagues and his bureaucrats slide. The CM’s excise policy that seeks to give relief to...

Indian economy has been on a free fall for some time now. Even before the COVID-19 crisis unfolded on the world, our economy had already been swaying with global headwinds. The off and on attempts made by the government over last few years to resuscitate...