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While several States of India roil under the latest outbreak of avian influenza, the strategy of mass culling of poultry birds, to contain the spread, is a knee-jerk reaction adopted by health authorities. This is not the first bird flu outbreak in India. Repeated outbreaks...

The country celebrates the 72nd Republic Day in the midst of a global pandemic-induced gloom, a ravaged economy and protests by farmers on an unprecedented scale against a controversial legislative exercise. The star attraction of the celebrations throughout the country is the magnificent parades by...

At a time when vaccines against Covid-19 are being rolled out in phases in many countries across the world, there are reports of palpable anger and dismay from Wuhan. Just about this time last year this Chinese city earned the opprobrium of being the villain...

We have entered the 13th consecutive quarter of economic slowdown in India. Gross Domestic Product, meaning the total value of services and goods produced in this country in the last 12 months, shrunk in 2020-2021 against 2019-2020. We made less than we did the previous...

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is strengthening its drive against unaccounted foreign assets and benami properties with a slew of steps. It has launched a new online facility to encourage informants to tip off tax sleuths on black assets abroad. Further, it has...

The tenth round of talks between farmer unions and the Centre has offered a distant ray of hope for an eventual end to the ongoing impasse over the three new farm laws. The government Wednesday suggested that it would suspend operation of the three laws...

By the time you read this lakhs of chickens will have died of avian flu. Some will have died naturally. Others will have been beaten to death or strangled. How many do you think will be buried or burnt? Very few. Most of them will...

The Supreme Court’s ruling on January 18 about the farmers’ proposed tractor rally in Delhi on Republic Day says that it is a matter of law and order and the Delhi police has to take a call. This nips in the bud an attempt by...

Nepal Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali’s three-day trip to India ending January 16 was an opportunity for New Delhi to repair the fractured relations between the two countries and make amends for the bungling by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the past few years...

India has joined the ranks of wealthier nations by beginning to inoculate health workers on January 16 in what is going to be the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Among the 195 countries in the world the United States, Britain, Israel, Canada and Germany have...