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Manish Tewari is a lawyer and a former Union minister. The views expressed are personal. Twitter handle @manishtewari

Doctors examines people during a free medical camp in Dharavi, one of Asias largest slums in Mumbai. PTI Photo

Manish Tewari | India's bankruptcy of infra, ideas on display

After the lockdown was announced it is indeed intriguing why the health minister Harshvardhan was not briefing the...

10 Jun 2020 2:19 AM IST

Migrants arriving from Andhra Pradesh undergo thermal screening after deboarding a train at Danapur railway station, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Patna. PTI Photo

Manish Tewari: India rushes headlong into summer of death

It begs an obvious question if governments are not there to help citizens in need what else are they there for?

11 May 2020 5:29 PM IST

A group of Chinese scientists published in the Lancet in January 2020 revealed that the first Covid-19 patient had no connection to Wuhans wet animal market, and neither did 13 of the first 41 confirmed cases. PTI Photo

Does China have a case to answer for coronavirus outbreak?

There is a considerable body of scientific opinion that believes that SARS-COV-2 actually escaped from the Wuhan...

26 April 2020 7:36 PM IST

Schoolgirls share a bed at a primary health centre in rural India. (AFP)

Manish Tewari: What we need is a New Deal for health

It'll take 6 lakh crore rupees to build from the ground up, but let's do it

14 April 2020 7:42 PM IST

TV grab taken from the World Health Organization website shows WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as he delivers a news briefing on COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) from the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 30, 2020. (AFP)

Covid-19 is this century's global inflection point

In the post-Covid-19 world the institutions of global governance would have to be revisited and remodelled

31 March 2020 11:56 AM IST

The RBI draws its powers from several Indian statutes, the most significant of them being the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. (AFP)

The design of RBI limits its abilities

The time has come to repeal the central bank's antiquated 1934 legal architecture

15 March 2020 10:37 PM IST

A book value in a sense represents a historical cost, or the purchase cost adjusted for depreciation while market value is the true value of the enterprise that can be realised in the open market.

The govt's grand garage sale of Air India

The book value of an enterprise can be markedly different from its market value.

1 March 2020 4:21 AM IST

Finally, this resulted in the mad rush among the people for cover and they came forward in big numbers to buy expiring LIC products.

India's public sector is going downhill

PSUs not only play a pivotal role in the economy, but also contribute overall to nation building.

16 Feb 2020 4:52 AM IST

Indian economic growth has steadily slowed to a six-year low of 5.0 per cent in the April-June quarter from an 8.1 per cent peak in the January-March quarter of 2018.

Budget 2020: India is cruising for a bruising

Unemployment is rising sharply, consumption, savings and investment are down and inflation is rearing its ugly head...

2 Feb 2020 6:39 AM IST

General Qasem Soleimani (Photo: AP)

Soleimani was the glue of Resistance Axis

The contested lands now labeled as the Palestine question were once a part of Ottoman Syria.

19 Jan 2020 5:11 AM IST

Supporters of the Bhim Army (above) take part in a march demanding the release of their leader Chandrasekhar Azad and protest against the amended Citizenship Act, NRC and NPR in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: PRITAM BANDYOPADHYAY)

The link between NPR & NRC is obvious

Not only is the link between the NPR and the NRC very obvious, but the BJP-led government's ideological commitment to it...

5 Jan 2020 2:53 AM IST

Students and local residents protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act outside Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: Asian Age)

CAA, NRC will complete divide & rule agenda

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of Aligarh Muslim University's initial conception of India, was plaited with secular...

22 Dec 2019 12:05 AM IST