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Displaced workers follow social distance guidelines as they line up to food served by an NGO during the ongoingnationwide lockdown amid the coronavirus outbreak, near Ramakrishna Mission in New Delhi on Friday, April 03,2020. Photograph......Pritam Bandyopadhyay

AA Edit: New Delhi must heed the advice of the states

Stop hallucinating that you can win this war with the states so fiscally hamstrung

4 April 2020 6:59 PM IST

The Parsi Navjote ceremony involves taking a sip of cows urine while pronouncing the Avestan prayers. So, theres another Aryan prescription that comes down to us through centuries. (PTI Photo)

Farrukh Dhondy: Cult of cow urine not the only history Indians,...

The King Porus that Alexander defeated was likely a satrap of Darius III and governed lands west of the Indus under the...

4 April 2020 8:24 AM IST

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Wimbeldon will be missed this year

When US Open venue is lending some of its courts to make a Covid19 field hospital, it would be inappropriate to consider...

3 April 2020 11:14 AM IST

Disquiet in J&K on jobs for outsiders

All political parties in J&K, including the Apni Party, have expressed themselves strongly against the new order

3 April 2020 10:51 AM IST

In this photo taken on March 25, 2020, AgVa Healthcare employee Vaibhav Gupta demonstrates using a ventilator at the research and development (R&D) centre in Noida in Uttar Pradesh state. AFP Photo

India pays the price for acting late on Covid19

Preparations to meet the Covid-19 challenge were tardy throughout February and the first half of March

3 April 2020 10:34 AM IST

Migrant workers make the journey to their respective villages on foot following the nationwide lockdown amid the coronavirus epidemic in New Delhi. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Dev 360: Lockdown, long march: Catastrophe looming

If we don't take immediate measures to mitigate the larger human crisis the lockdown has triggered, we are heading...

2 April 2020 1:54 PM IST

Jostling for rations in the Moghalpura locality of Hyderabad. How will the state governments manage to fight the Covid-19 pandemic if the Union government does not release funds to the states? (DC Photo: Deepak Deshpande)

AA Edit: New Delhi must loosen the purse strings

The Union government must step in now and stop the states from slipping into a vicious cycle

2 April 2020 11:47 AM IST

People living in the streets sit in line to receive food served by the Delhi government at a temporary shelter in the Nizamuddin area. The nationwide lockdown has thrown thousands of workers out of jobs and left them without access to food. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

AA Edit: Media freedom is vital as India battles Covid-19

For a government that hardly ever acts against the WhatsApp rumour mill, it's a bit disingenuous to point a fake news...

2 April 2020 11:22 AM IST

Covid19 outbreak: Tackling the effects of ill-concieved policies

The goal of social distancing is a hugely unfulfilled aspiration

1 April 2020 10:14 AM IST

Sri Lankan President-elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa (Photo: AP)

Sri Lanka's political pardon

Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa's decision to pardon the solider is not only deeply disappointing but also...

1 April 2020 9:59 AM IST

People who came for Jamat, a religious gathering at Nizamuddin Mosque, being taken to LNJP hospital for COVID-19 test, after several people showed symptoms of coronavirus, during a nationwide lockdown, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Vigilance needs to be stepped up to keep Covid19 at bay

While the Talbighi incident is a wake-up call on the consequences of slackness in the face of a health emergency

1 April 2020 9:36 AM IST

A couple carrying an infant walk along an expressway hoping to reach their home, hundreds of miles away, as New Delhi comes under lockdown. (AP)

How the virus from Wuhan has taken the world to the brink: Is the...

How did 21st century India forget the 'yellow peril' that battered the global economy in the guise of globalisation?

1 April 2020 8:36 AM IST