Opinion
Profit Over Public Health? The Hamletian Dilemma That Must Not Exist Amid the Covid-19 Crisis
In the present pandemic scenario, individuals need to be protected and systems ought to be used for comforting them. Thus, commercial contracts like loan agreements should be examined with balance of convenience in favour of borrowers.
‘She Could No Longer Respond to Challenges’: How Operation Blue Star’s Devastation ‘Exhausted’ Indira Gandhi
Operation Blue Star was successful in the sense that it killed the bulk of the separatists, but the army mission was an utter failure because it failed to prevent the near complete destruction of Harmandir Sahib and the Akal Takht.
As India Battles Worst Ever Recession Coupled with Uncertainty Around Coronavirus, is it Time for Large Doses of Direct Cash Transfer?
Crisil and Fitch seem to agree that the biggest reason for such an unprecedented downward revision in India’s growth forecasts, within a span of a month, is a harsh lockdown imposed by the government.
India's Defence FDI Rules Should Not Treat the Sector as Homogeneous
Different weapon platforms have different levels of technology complexity, and greater the complexity, the greater has to be incentive for global defence manufacturers to invest in India. It would be more prudent if rules for investment were more relaxed...
Ahead of Bihar elections, Parties Pick Poll Battles Against and Over Coronavirus, Literally
The elections will be fought on the issue of success or failure of the Bihar government in handling the influx of lakhs of ‘Pravasi Biharis’ after being rendered jobless due to closure of factories due to Covid-19 lockdown.
Digital Epiphany? Covid-19 and Our Tech Futures
The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc globally, leaving governments and communities struggling to find a response. This is happening even as new technological and industrial transformations are altering societies around the world.
A 10-Point Roadmap for Sustainable Development to Avoid Covid-19 Like Pandemics in Future
The emerging ideas for managing nature post Covid-19 take us towards ‘Sustainable Development Plus’ with ‘Safe Living” getting high priority in the core objectives of our development initiatives
Choose GST or Cut Red Tape, But States Must Agree on Online Sale of Liquor in These Desperate Times
The issue with liquor sale online is different states levying different excise duty, which makes it extremely tough for the state to track purchase from one state and it being sold in another.
With 350 Covid-19 Deaths in 45 Days, What's Ailing Ahmedabad and What's the Remedy?
If you take the entire state of Gujarat, then the death toll is around 475 and total number of positive cases stand at around 7,800. This means Ahmedabad’s share in total death due to the virus stands at 75%.
Migrants' Prospects Could Still be Better in Truncated Factories and Construction Sites
Such workers send back Rs 1.5 lakh crore annually to their families in villages; these money transfers serve 10 percent of households in rural India and finance over 30 percent of household consumption in remittance-receiving households.
Digital Surveillance, Authoritarianism to Increase in a Post-Covid World, But There is a Long-term Silver Lining
It would be logical to expect that the world comes together to fight a common enemy. Unfortunately, the reverse will happen.
Four Reasons Why Reliance Jio-Facebook Deal is Commercially Sensible and Good for India, Writes Subramanian Swamy
Some people have reacted to this as a negation of the Swadeshi commitment of the BJP government. But Swadeshi has always meant self-reliance, and not self-sufficiency.
Sandwiched Between Overshooting Liabilities & Cash-strapped MSMEs, Centre's Hard-picked Covid-19 Relief Package May be a Letdown
The Kotak analysts have said that at current delinquency levels, a Rs three lakh crore package will expose the government to contingent liabilities of nearly Rs 30,000 crore.
OPINION | Nation Should Emerge Winner in its Fight Against Covid-19 and the Bigger Threat of Maoists
While world is now advocating social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Maoists have for long been practising a distancing of a different kind – staying away from human values of compassion and tolerance.
OPINION | Can China’s Belt-and-Road-Initiative Survive COVID-19?
China's ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ projects always made poor economic sense. This pandemic originating from China and leading to global recession may have a spelt the death knell to BRI.
Coronavirus, Curbs, Critical Care: How a Virus Changed India's Medical Landscape Overnight
In light of the present situation, various hospitals nationwide have temporarily halted regular functioning, attending only to emergencies.