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A volunteer distributes masks outside a government hospital as a precaution against COVID-19 in Jammu on March 16, 2020. (AP)

Dev 360: Navigating uncertainty in the time of coronavirus

Let's not be fixated on daily 'numbers'; let's look at preparedness

19 March 2020 8:33 AM IST

$In this Feb. 10, 2020 photo released by Xinhua, Chinese president Xi Jinping gestures near a heart shaped sign and the slogan Race against time, Fight the Virus during an inspection of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Chaoyang District in Beijing. As the rest of the world grapples with a burgeoning virus outbreak, Chinas ruling Communist Party has turned to its propaganda playbook to portray its leader as firmly in charge, leading an army of health workers in a \peoples war\ against the disease. (AP)$ Opinion

The corona lesson: Cozying up to Xi's China has a heavy cost

Let us stand with the Chinese people, but not the men in black who have kept them in bondage for over 70 years

19 March 2020 12:37 AM IST

In American troops in Afghanistan. The US is keen to end its longest-ever conflict, and under the terms of a deal signed in Doha last month has said all foreign forces will quit Afghanistan within 14 months -- provided the Taliban stick to their security commitments. (AFP)

In post-US Afghanistan, what are India's options?

New Delhi has to move beyond its wait and watch policy

18 March 2020 11:55 PM IST

Rebel Congress MLAs from Madhya Pradesh address a press conference at a resort in Bengaluru on March 17, 2020. (PTI)

Political trade grows: RS is the new market

Politicians have made enterprises of themselves and their constituents

18 March 2020 12:03 AM IST

In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, the then chief justice of India justice Ranjan Gogoi seen during the 18th late Dharamnath Prasad Kohli memorial lecture organised by the CBI in New Delhi. President Ram Nath Kovind nominated Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha on March 16, 2020. (PTI)

AA EDIT: Gogoi's RS nomination sends wrong signal

Justice Gogoi had a destructive influence as a strongman judge

18 March 2020 12:01 AM IST

Sanjay Manjrekar

AA EDIT: Bring back Sanjay Manjrekar

As an individual, he has every right to hold an opinion on public issues

18 March 2020 12:01 AM IST

A municipal worker cleans the floor of a room to be used as an isolation ward for coronavirus asymptomatic people at an athletic stadium in Hyderabad, March 17, 2020. (AP)

The rising China virus threat: For India, a spell of self-isolation is...

India should never get involved wholeheartedly in the business of globalisation, which has turned out to be a bit of a...

17 March 2020 9:21 PM IST

Madhya Pradesh governor Lalji Tandon and chief minister Kamal Nath arrive for the budget session of the state Assembly in Bhopal on March 16, 2020. (PTI)

AA EDIT: Can the BJP topple Kamal Nath?

The legislature belongs to the people's reps and is run by the speaker, not the governor

17 March 2020 9:29 AM IST

BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia being welcomed by his supporters on his arrival at Bhopal Airport on March 12, 2020. (PTI)

Congress needs a leader to give India a real choice

The party ought to offer solutions that are a palpable alternative to the mess that has been created

17 March 2020 9:06 AM IST

A medical worker stores medical samples of patients at a coronavirus testing lab. (AFP)

AA EDIT: India must do much more on coronavirus testing

We still have no protocol on compulsorily testing people with symptoms

17 March 2020 9:01 AM IST

Shoppers wearing masks are faced with partially empty shelves at a supermarket in London on March 14, 2020, as consumers worry about product shortages, leading to the stockpiling of household products due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Faced with supermarkets being emptied and online shopping overrun due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UK retailers are appealing to consumers to come to their senses and ensure that the country will not run out of food. (AFP)

London Diary: We can't have a herd immunity approach to coronavirus in...

For herd immunity to work, experts say around 60 per cent of the population, some 40 million people, need to catch the...

16 March 2020 6:40 PM IST

National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah with his wife Mollie Abdullah (left) and daughter Safiya Abdullah (right) speaks to the media after his release from detention on March 13, 2020. (PTI)

Farooq's Abdullah's silence is a statement

People in Kashmir have grown sceptical about Dr Abdullah's next move

16 March 2020 4:39 PM IST