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Victims of Covid-19 being cremated at Dwarka cremation ground in New Delhi, Friday, April 30, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Shobhaa De | Can blatant lies save India from Covid-19?

The people of India are the country's real strength, while its biggest tragedy are its politicians

1 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Relatives and family members perform last rites during mass cremation of COVID-19 victims, at Swar Rekha Ghat cremation ground, in Ranchi. (Photo: PTI)

Karan Thapar | India's grim reality out in the open as myths busted

It wasn't so long ago that we convinced ourselves we are a superpower or, at least, one that's definitely in the making

30 April 2021 4:51 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | CVC ups ante, asks ministries to sort plaints within 3...

The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has run into a wall of bureaucratic denial

29 April 2021 4:18 AM IST

$Students waving flags of the Communist Party as they prepare to watch a movie \The Founding of a Party\ in Yangzhou, in Chinas eastern Jiangsu province, to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. (Photo: AFP)$ Opinion

Claude Arpi | China's new weapon is political archaeology'

In February this year, the Communist Party of China (CPC) started a new campaign called Party History Learning and...

29 April 2021 4:10 AM IST

Family members of COVID-19 patients wait outside an oxygen-filling centre to refill their empty cylinders, as demand for the gas rises due to spike in coronavirus cases, at Naraina, in New Delhi, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (PTI/Manvender Vashist)

Sunanda K. Datta Ray | Caring governance vital to save lives & India's...

The devastating second wave might not have struck so ferociously had it not been for the government's triumphalism

28 April 2021 7:23 AM IST

Mass cremation of Covid-19 victims at cremation Ground Madan Puri, in Gurugram. (Photo: PTI)

K C Singh | Covid mess to cost govt dear at home & abroad

Covid-19's 2nd wave hit India soon afterwards, with India's leadership preoccupied with crucial state elections, the...

27 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Burning pyres of victims who lost their lives due to the Covid-19 coronavirus are seen at a cremation ground in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | India's health calamity has exposed flaws in Gujarat...

There is no example of a developed nation that had a Third World education and healthcare system

27 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

The Election Commission dismissed the plea by Mamata Banerjee that the eight-phase election was very risky. It seemed to pay more attention to the BJPs jeers that the eight-phase election was necessary to ensure peaceful, free and fair elections. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Mishandling elections in the time of a pandemic

Through super-spreader events and shoddy observance of Covid protocols, Citizens are paying twice over for the EC's...

26 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

A fitting farewell for Prince Philip; Cameron, Carrie graft entertains

The big event of the past fortnight has, of course, been the Royal funeral

26 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

A COVID-19 patient receives free oxygen, provided by a Sikh organization at Indirapuram Gurudwara, in Ghaziabad. (Photo: PTI)

Sucheta Dasgupta | Hope in the time of sorrow and C-virus

Despite its no-pussyfooting bravado and stupendous majority, the govt did not declare a lockdown on Holi. The Kumbh...

25 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Mass cremation of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium as coronavirus cases surge, in New Delhi, Saturday, April 24, 2021. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | An AWOL government

Downright negligence, coupled with hubris, made the governments, both at the Centre and some in the states, let their...

25 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

The Haryana government recently enacted the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act 2020, which requires private establishments that employ 10 or more workers to reserve 75 per cent of new jobs with a monthly salary of less than Rs 50,000 for domiciles of Haryana. (Photo: PTI)

Haryana law a bad example: Populism won't create new jobs

While enacting this law, the Haryana government failed to do adequate pre-legislative exercises to test its economic...

25 April 2021 12:00 AM IST