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A view of the New Delhi railway station showing services at a standstill. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Mohan Guruswamy: Where's the money? Just shake the tree and pick the...

The 1.7 lakh crore economic revival plan is just not enough. The government needs to be bolder than that

13 April 2020 10:15 PM IST

Handout image released by 10 Downing Street shows Britains prime minister Boris Johnson as he delivers a television address after returning to 10 Downing Street after being discharged from St Thomas Hospital, in central London on April 12, 2020. Johnson was discharged from hospital on Sunday, a week after being admitted for treatment for coronavirus and spending three days in intensive care. (AFP)

London Diary: Boastful Boris and the not-so-flat sombrero

During his fortnight away, the PM left behind a real vacuum: who''ll do the press conference!

13 April 2020 10:11 PM IST

Image posted on Twitter by the Indian Air Force of a C130 that airlifted Indian medical personnel along with medical equipment to assist Kuwait in dealing with the coroavirus outbreak there. (PTI)

AA Edit: Gulf Indians need help, badly

New Delhi must immediately direct our embassies there to coordinate efforts to extend a helping hand to every Indian who...

13 April 2020 5:55 PM IST

Prime minister Narendra Modi chairs a videoconference with chief ministers on the coronavirus lockdown on Saturday, April 11, 2020. Union mome minister Amit Shah, defence minister Rajnath Singh and others are also seen. (PTI)

AA Edit: We have consensus, so let's get to work on an exit plan

As the chief ministers said at the videocon, states need massive help in restarting the economy

13 April 2020 4:37 PM IST

File photo of the UN Security Council meeting in New York on February 26, 2020. (AFP)

The world must sue China

The pandemic will hopefully encourage nations to look at reform of the UN system and act against China's irresponsible...

13 April 2020 3:59 PM IST

RSS volunteers pack food for distribution to people laid off during the current nationwide lockdown in old Lucknow on April 10, 2020. (PTI)

Waqyanavis: Back to the chaddis, boys

Because if you do good deeds wearing trousers, no one thinks you're the RSS

13 April 2020 1:04 AM IST

Migrant workers set out for their villages during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown in India. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

By ignorantly accusing the Markaz, we may be unwittingly blaming the...

'Markaz' is a word that means 'Centre', and is often used as short form for markazi hakumat

13 April 2020 12:27 AM IST

A homeless man eats his lunch in front of a wall painting extolling the glory of India. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Sujatha Surepally: What be charity but an old feudal measure to...

Free lunches won't keep the migrant worker from wanting to go home and start over

12 April 2020 10:17 PM IST

File photo of prime minister Narendra Modi chairing a meeting of the National Disaster Management Authority in New Delhi in 2018. (PIB)

Saikat Datta: Why we lurch from one disaster to another

We have no institutional memory of what worked and what didn't in past crises

11 April 2020 11:16 PM IST

Might the conspirators have reckoned without the philanthropist?

Farrukh Dhondy: Heard any good conspiracy theories lately?

The one that's gone viral is that big pharmaceutical companies have spread this virus through the agency of The Dark...

11 April 2020 7:13 PM IST

Joe Biden (left) and Bernie Sanders greet each other with a safe elbow bump before a Democratic Party presidential debate in Washington on March 15, 2020. Sanders has suspended his presidential campaign, clearing the way for rival Joe Biden to become the Democratic nominee to challenge Donald Trump in November. (AFP)

AA Edit: It's Don versus Joe & Corona

Biden has much work to do if he is to capture the imagination of the youth as Sanders did

11 April 2020 5:53 PM IST

Bags containing essential supplies kept ready for distribution to people at te Uttarahalli Government School in Bengaluru on Saturday. (DC Photo: Satish. B)

AA Edit: Recession is upon us; cash transfers are the way forward

When there is a risk of demand dying, the government must put the economy on a ventilator

11 April 2020 4:44 PM IST