Opinion

Bharat Jhunjhunwala China is facing the worst floods in hundred years though it made the largest numbers of dams in the world. India too is facing floods in Bihar despite having arrested floodwaters in the Tehri Dam. Assam is regularly facing severe seasonal floods. The...

Dr. Oishee According to projections, India will have 35 lakh Covid-19 cases by September. The daily nationwide testing of 27 lakh is proving to be inadequate with positivity rate – total confirmed cases per 100 tests -- reaching the double digit mark for the first...

Devinder Sharma Lakshminarayan is a farmer from Shimoga in Karnataka. He had taken a loan of Rs 35,000 from a local branch of Canara Bank. About a month ago, he received a threatening call from the bank, asking him to pay back the pending dues...

Naba Kishor Pujari With the onset of Covid-19 causing immense disruption to normal life, the world is busy fighting to check its spread. While the pandemic has pushed millions of people into economic hazards, we are yet to fathom the extent of damage that this...

Dr. Ramesh Chandra Parida & Dr. Pranab Kumar Ghosh A mother can never be evaluated in terms of money. She is simply priceless. So is tree, which provides us all the motherly care throughout our lives. This includes clean air to breath, pure water to...

Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to transform our behaviours, attitudes, and policies in many areas. For the sake of overcoming the public-health crisis and enabling economic recovery, one must hope that water and wastewater management will be among them....

Dr. Guru Prasad Mohanta Reports speak of shortage in and black-marketing of the most-promising Covid–19 medicine, Remdesivir, in the open market. The black-market prices are substantially higher, making the medicines unaffordable. The police have registered cases against the black-marketers. Realising the potential of this experimental...

Ajit Ranade Covid-19 has pushed the world into a deep recession. India is no exception. The national economy will shrink by about six per cent this financial year. This means the national income will be lower than last year, and every household on an average...

Saeed Naqvi The utter irrelevance of the Sachin Pilot-Ashok Gehlot spat is matched only by the saturation coverage accorded to the mishap by the media – at least a large section of it. Of Rajasthan’s storm in a teacup the amplification is more disturbing than...

Aparimita Mishra The coronavirus-induced lockdown severely affected many lives. The plight of migrants and their families, captured through horrifying images, brought out their rights to the centre stage. Partly as a response to this, state agencies and NGOs tried to provide some help to stranded...