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Employees are back at work at the construction site of the Wuhan Greenland Center, a 636-m high skyscraper in Wuhan in Chinas central Hubei province. (AFP)

Tackling future Covids: Three things India needs to learn from China

We have an excellent disaster preparedness machinery. But it's time to have a disease preparedness system as well.

30 April 2020 11:59 PM IST

Telangana needs to regain its tax-earning capacities in the post-lockdown period. (DC Photo)

Telangana makes a departure on lockdown strategy

The state would do well to ease its lockdown restrictions in two phases

30 April 2020 11:19 PM IST

Representational image (AFP)

Is India's corona response model actually working?

The United States is leading the world in corona infections and deaths, with President Trump's dysfunctional leadership...

30 April 2020 7:19 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi (PTI)

Modi's corona politics: Spin amid global crisis

India has so far tested fewer than 400 persons per million a shockingly low figure by world standards

30 April 2020 6:10 PM IST

Curtailed trading hours for debt, currency markets till Apr 30 says RBI

AA edit: A hands-off government

In its second intervention in the last 10 days, the RBI has announced special lending of up to Rs 50,000 crores to ease...

29 April 2020 8:43 PM IST

Migrant workers from Akola district of Maharashtra walk along Mumbai-Nashik highway to reach their native places, during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus, in Thane. PTI Photo

AA edit: Fund state campaigns, efforts to exit lockdown

It is understood that the PM has expressed his inclination towards letting states decide the details of implementing the...

29 April 2020 8:21 PM IST

Moving past the heated rhetoric in India about how to deal with China, the astute Mr Kant knows the importance of Chinas investments to Indias ambition of becoming a $10 trillion economy. PTI Photo

Dilli ka Babu: Aayog takes nuanced approach to China stakes

The government's decision was greeted by many nationalistic supporters of the government who saw in the move a bold...

29 April 2020 8:07 PM IST

Migrant workers from Akola district of Maharashtra walk along Mumbai-Nashik highway to reach their native places, during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus, in Thane. PTI Photo

Mohan Guruswamy: Let's rethink the draconian curbs

India has over 410 million workers in the unorganised sector, a majority of whom are daily-wagers earning little more...

29 April 2020 5:04 PM IST

A worker cover his face with a mask as he takes a nap outside a closed shop in a market in New Delhi. Thousands of workers in major Indian cities have lost their jobs due to the shutdown imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus. (DC Photo; Pritam Bandyopadhyay)Photograph......Pritam Bandyopadhyay

The shutdown is a device to shut out the Dalits

All those who have been nudged to the margins by the Covid-19 lockdown are invariably Dalit

29 April 2020 12:40 AM IST

What we need are strategies for coping with Covid-19 and they need not be drastic ones like the national lockdowns, or even large-scale quarantining. PTI Photo

Covid-19: A glimmer of hope as recoveries rise

The difference between the fatalities and recoveries is huge, and gives rise to more than a glimmer of hope

28 April 2020 6:20 PM IST

A health worker walks inside a containment zone to collect details during lockdown to prevent the spread of new coronavirus in Hyderabad. AP Photo

Aakar Patel: Covid-19 has blown away all our fig leaves

Aakar Patel: Covid-19 has blown away all our fig leaves

28 April 2020 5:46 PM IST

Britains home secretary Priti Patel attends a remote press conference to update the nation on the COVID-19 pandemic. (AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy: The British intellectual's changing currency

Events of the last few years confirm the fact that times may change but the characteristics of Britain exhibit a...

27 April 2020 12:42 AM IST