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Shoppers in central Manchester, England, as coronavirus restrictions are eased in England. Thanks to an efficient vaccine roll out program and high uptake rates, Britain is finally saying goodbye to months of tough lockdown restrictions. (AP/Jon Super, File)

In BoJo's UK, it's okay to hug now. But if cases spurt, fresh ban...

One doesn't have to hug every person one passes in the street, but it now permits grandparents to embrace their...

22 May 2021 1:45 AM IST

People perform Suryanamaskar after applying cow dung on their body during cow dung therapy, believing it will boost immunity to fight against the coronavirus disease. (PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | The rise of anti-science as Covid-19 cases...

Experts have noted that the rise of populism and the emergence of anti-science politics are occurring simultaneously in...

22 May 2021 1:30 AM IST

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. (PTI)

Anand K. Sahay | RSS & BJP: Is there a shift in the equation?

The RSS can obfuscate speak assertively, but also as a ventriloquist, when needed

21 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

The second wave of the epidemic has caught Indias creaking health infrastructure on the wrong foot again. (PTI /Kamal Kishore)

Dilip Cherian | Grassroots gap: Doctors intensify call for all-India...

FORDA has renewed the demand and written to PM Modi asking him to expedite the creation of a national medical service

20 May 2021 7:43 AM IST

$A demonstrator displays a placard reading: \Palestinian Lives Matter\ during a pro-Palestinian protest in Berlin on May 19, 2021. Thousands of demonstrators marched waving Palestinian flags and shouting pro-Palestine slogans as Israel and the Palestinians were mired in their worst conflict in years. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)$ Opinion

Syed Ata Hasnain | Imposed solutions in Mideast won't work

A conflict occupied the world's centre space for seven decades can't be artificially resolved without having on board...

20 May 2021 7:40 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election campaign rally in support of his party candidates, during the ongoing West Bengal assembly polls, at Joynagar in South 24 Parganas district. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjay Kumar | The political fallout of the Covid crisis across India

When the country faced these multiple health crises, what people saw was PM Modi addressing several election rallies in...

19 May 2021 7:08 AM IST

A health worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a person at a Hospital in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. India started inoculating health workers Saturday in what is likely the worlds largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign, joining the ranks of wealthier nations where the effort is already well underway. (AP)

Probal DasGupta | India can vaccinate swiftly by using mohalla method'

A swifter pace of vaccinations is the antidote to arrest fatality numbers, build confidence and encourage a quicker...

19 May 2021 6:54 AM IST

Earlier, in his monthly Mann ki Baat radio address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said a powerful positivity message needs to go out. (PTI)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Positivity effect: Govt has to do things...

Rather than viewing criticism negatively, the criticism-averse govt can also help transform public perceptions by...

18 May 2021 7:27 AM IST

A medical worker inoculates a policeman with a Covishield Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination camp, in Chennai. (AFP)

Aakar Patel | Govt needed to have grip' over Covid: That is what PM...

The reason we don't have enough vaccines is that we did not order them at the right time because we didn't think we...

18 May 2021 7:14 AM IST

An Indian hawker arranges mangoes at a roadside shop in the southern city of Chennai. (Photo: Reuters)

Sanjaya Baru | The mango as a metaphor: The pluralism of our palate &...

India's mango exports to the US were the fruit of prolonged negotiations

17 May 2021 8:36 AM IST

Israeli forces flares light up the sky in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 16, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | Israel's brutality in Gaza has dented heroic image

The founding of the State of Israel held out the promise of a new nation

17 May 2021 8:16 AM IST

Childrens literature, if you can call Tolkien that, has been a go-to from whenever I stopped being a child, if that ever happens either. (By arrangement)

Ranjona Banerji | Freedom, as understood by escapists and readers

Those fables and fairy tales told to children follow similar patterns: that adults can be evil, you have to look out for...

16 May 2021 8:02 AM IST