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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

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