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Health workers collect details as they survey a neighborhood amid concerns over the spread of new coronavirus in New Delhi, India. AP Photo

State lockdown option is the need of the hour

The corona containment measures should ideally be conceived and coordinated by the Union government and implemented by...

26 April 2020 8:24 PM IST

President Donald Trump listens during a demonstration of ways NASA is helping to combat the coronavirus, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. AP Photo

The great distraction

Statistics reveal that none of the measures, other than locking ourselves down to keep the infection from spreading like...

26 April 2020 8:10 PM IST

A key worker hands back a swab to a medical worker at a drive-in testing facility for the novel coronavirus COVID-19, in east London. AFP Photo

UK paid a heavy price for being late on coronavirus response

While parts of India are now being opened up, very tentatively, in the UK there is confusion and debate on how long the...

26 April 2020 7:52 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

Waqyanawis: No loyalty is final for the likes of Swamy, Goswami

Arnab Goswami's recent diatribe against Sonia has surprised and shocked 10, Janpath

26 April 2020 5:45 AM IST

People living in the streets sit down to receive food at a soup kitchen set up at a temporary shelter in the Nizamuddin area of New Delhi. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Anand K Sahay: Corona shock has laid bare the pretensions of Indians

We may be the fifth largest economy but the only thing shielding migrant workers from hunger is the food provided by...

26 April 2020 5:25 AM IST

File photo of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani wife Nita Ambani at the 42nd annual general meeting of the company in Mumbai, India. Facebook has said it plans to invest $5.7 billion in Indias telecom giant Reliance Jio. The investment will give Facebook a 9.99% stake in Jio Platforms, the digital technologies and app developing division of Reliance Industries. (AP)

AA Edit: Facebook-Jio deal raises net neutrality concerns

Regulators should ensure that firewalls are placed in the deal to provide a level playing field to every technology firm

26 April 2020 5:01 AM IST

People in large numbers gather on a street in Visakhapatnam to receive food distributed by donors. (AA Photo: K N Murali Krishna)

AA Edit: Are we winning or losing after one month of lockdown?

The nation has benefited from the lockdown but the jury is still out whether it matches the losses incurred

26 April 2020 4:25 AM IST

Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan. (AP)

AA Edit: Will the world call out Pakistan for airbrushing terror?

The removal of 3,800 names from the terror list confirms Pakistan's ambivalence on the matter

26 April 2020 4:09 AM IST

Kerala policemen conduct a march to enforce the COVID-19 lockdown in Kochi. The Kerala government has been forced by the Centre to step back on relaxations it had planned to give. (PTI)

AA Edit: Stop micro-managing Covid action in the states

The Union government failed to act when its intervention was needed but chose to act when the job should have been left...

26 April 2020 3:56 AM IST

Air India CMD Rajiv Bansal (ANI)

Dilli ka Babu: Will Air India get a new CMD?

Rajiv Bansal has been elevated to secretary level at the Centre

26 April 2020 3:39 AM IST

The whole nation is aswirl with heart-rending stories. (AA Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

A Revanth Reddy: The common man has paid the price of Covid-19

Millions of unorganised sector workers are now facing an unprecedented but very real threat of death by starvation

25 April 2020 2:38 AM IST