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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

Farrukh Dhondy | Transgenders' rights must be respected; they need...

Prof. Dawkins had tweeted messages denying that people could choose their gender

24 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | The God business is good business all across India

Religion is now, not just increasingly a part of our politics, but also, and even more so, of our economics

24 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

L. Ravichander | To uphold secularism, free temples from state control

Over 19,000 important temples are directly managed by government officials, in the absence of temple trustees from among...

23 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | Recalling Iraq's tragedy in 2003 & statesmanship of PM...

Worldview India's journalists remember April 2003 for the kind of journalism Indians haven't practised before or since

23 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Private sector specialists will helm Modi's reforms...

While it would be erroneous to see political colour in what should be seen as usual assignments, few observers are...

22 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

India now has the worlds fastest-growing Covid-19 caseload, adding more than 250,000 new infections every day for the past week or so. (Photo: PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Lessons not learnt after a year of battling...

Once again, we are locked down. And migrant workers are leaving out of fear of being abandoned. How did we get here?

22 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Former UP minister Akhilesh Yadav offers prayers on the banks of Ganga river during Kumbh Mela 2021, in Haridwar, Sunday, April 11, 2021. (PTI)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Hindu politics' by Opposition is a sign of...

The (Hindu) Opposition leaders now mask past commitment and efforts at increasing the political representation of...

20 April 2021 11:55 PM IST

Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard near a polling booth as voters wait to cast their votes during the fifth phase of West Bengal state elections in Newtown Rajarhat, North 24 Parganas district, India, Saturday, April 17, 2021. (AP)

Sanjay Kumar | Bengal lesson: Drawbacks of a multi-phase state...

Was planning an eight-phase poll spread over a month, and during a pandemic too boot, wrong, after all?

20 April 2021 11:55 PM IST

You cannot expect to be given a position on the UN Security Council, as India does, when the world sees what you are doing with distaste. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | How the world sees India is changing not for the better

India's urban unemployment is at a historic high and, more important, the participation rate of India's labour force is...

20 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Pakistans generals, who own and control the Taliban, want more than anything else to forcefully and completely eject all Indian presence from Afghanistan. (Photo: AFP)

Indranil Banerjie | US Afghan exit a pyrrhic victory for Pak generals?

The last time the Taliban had taken over Afghanistan, 26 years ago, India's historical presence in Afghanistan was...

20 April 2021 12:00 AM IST