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Confessions from corona containment

Sometimes it takes a deadly pandemic to show you the good, bad and ugly side of life

6 May 2020 7:11 AM IST

To expect the Chinese to pay up for the loss of life and other losses on their own is to expect miracles to happen

Suing China: Wishful thinking or could it be a dream come true?

Many countries in the world feel that China deliberately lied and tried its best to coverup the whole issue

5 May 2020 7:45 PM IST

In this Oct. 23, 2017 file photo, Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan watches a Vivo Pro Kabaddi league match in Mumbai. AP Photo

Keeping at it

Zeeshan Hasan Akhtar writes about what Irfan meant to him

2 May 2020 6:20 PM IST

Migrant workers line up outside the Anand Vihar bus terminal in New Delhi to leave for their villages in the wake of the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown announced by prime minister Narendra Modi. On March 28, tens of thousands of migrant workers fought and shoved their way onto buses organised by Uttar Pradesh to go to their home towns. (AFP)

Why PM Modi should make a call to Naveen Patnaik

The Odisha CM would have some valuable insights on how to plan for a disaster

29 March 2020 8:35 AM IST

Buses carrying members of a medical assistance team from Shenyang leave Shenyang Taoxian Airport upon their return home after helping with the COVID-19 coronavirus recovery effort in Wuhan, in Shenyang in Chinas northeastern Liaoning province on March 20, 2020. China on March 19 marked a major milestone in its battle against the coronavirus pandemic as it recorded zero domestic infections for the first time since the outbreak emerged, but a spike in imported cases threatened its progress. (AFP)

China begins Information Warfare

What China does not seem to understand is that even if she wins a few IW battles, this will not help her to become a...

23 March 2020 6:06 PM IST

Amid siege outside, love finds a way in

Amid siege outside, love finds a way in

Finally I have been able to accomplish the two basic human needs without having to fret or fight: to love and be loved...

22 March 2020 6:10 AM IST

In American troops in Afghanistan. The US is keen to end its longest-ever conflict, and under the terms of a deal signed in Doha last month has said all foreign forces will quit Afghanistan within 14 months -- provided the Taliban stick to their security commitments. (AFP)

In post-US Afghanistan, what are India's options?

New Delhi has to move beyond its wait and watch policy

18 March 2020 11:55 PM IST

A municipal worker cleans the floor of a room to be used as an isolation ward for coronavirus asymptomatic people at an athletic stadium in Hyderabad, March 17, 2020. (AP)

The rising China virus threat: For India, a spell of self-isolation is...

India should never get involved wholeheartedly in the business of globalisation, which has turned out to be a bit of a...

17 March 2020 9:21 PM IST

Shoppers wearing masks are faced with partially empty shelves at a supermarket in London on March 14, 2020, as consumers worry about product shortages, leading to the stockpiling of household products due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Faced with supermarkets being emptied and online shopping overrun due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UK retailers are appealing to consumers to come to their senses and ensure that the country will not run out of food. (AFP)

London Diary: We can't have a herd immunity approach to coronavirus in...

For herd immunity to work, experts say around 60 per cent of the population, some 40 million people, need to catch the...

16 March 2020 6:40 PM IST

National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah with his wife Mollie Abdullah (left) and daughter Safiya Abdullah (right) speaks to the media after his release from detention on March 13, 2020. (PTI)

Farooq's Abdullah's silence is a statement

People in Kashmir have grown sceptical about Dr Abdullah's next move

16 March 2020 4:39 PM IST

A woman shows the remains of her savings burnt in the recent violence in Delhi. (PTI)

Memories of another riot: Lessons of 1984 not learnt

The Congress Party never recovered from that genocide. But nor did we, says Saikat Datta

13 March 2020 9:33 PM IST

In this March 2, 2020 photo, a worker wearing a mask works at a factory producing bicycle wheel rims in Hangzhou in eastern Chinas Zhejiang province. (AP)

Can globalisation survive the corona shock?

The coronavirus could not have struck at a more ominous moment for globalisation

12 March 2020 3:00 PM IST