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The government has more than egg on its face – that too in these bad COVID times. The reference is to the way the Union Government, or the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), had to hurriedly cancel a large consignment of Chinese rapid anti-body...

Reports in the media indicate to certain troubling factors emerging out of the video conference held Monday 27 April 2020 wherein Prime Minister Narendra Modi consulted only nine Chief Ministers. It seems these politicians were unanimous in their opinion on extending the COVID-19 related national...

A report by news agencies claims a group of senior Indian Revenue Officers (IRS) has suggested certain remedies and quick cures to the Union government to effectively face the fiscal difficulties that will arise in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in India. Most probably...

Our good and bad qualities as a nation and as a people, the shortcomings and peculiarities of our culture, the incompetence of our government and state, all of these are being exposed by COVID-19. We are facing as a species the same problem across the...

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has downplayed China’s criticism of the Modi sarkar’s decision to tighten its Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy, which is seen as an attempt to wall off the Chinese dragon from making further inroads into India’s economic ecosystem amid the COVID-19...

Earlier this week, US crude futures crashed into a sub-zero level – a historic development, for never did crude oil price hit a negative territory. What that meant was that oil producers had to pay the buyers to take the commodity off their stocks amid...

Maneka Gandhi A few experiences of the many I have had during the first phase of the COVID lockdown. On March 24, I gave my phone number across the country for all animal volunteers. I thought a few organisations would get in touch. Thousands of...

COVID-19 has, by default, brought upfront the problems of migrant workers. The Central government is not just blissfully ignorant about the problems of this segment of the society but the government machinery seems to have completely written them off the records. It seems to have...

China has made it clear that it will not take things lying down regarding India’s amendments to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) rules, and stressed that this was a violation of World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules. India should be bound to persist with its present stand...

With several restrictions getting eased from Monday, the worst of the lockdown for supposedly halting progress of the COVID-19 in India is hopefully over. Figures give hope to the nation, however falsified they may be. With just 505 deaths linked to the pandemic in the...