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In this March 30, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump opens a box containing a 5-minute test for COVID-19 from Abbott Laboratories as Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. AP Photo

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Saeed Naqvi: Fair is foul & foul is fair in Trump's world

As the world focuses on fighting coronavirus, US claws are out, groping the Venezuelan coastline, using Colombian...

15 May 2020 5:34 PM IST

Migrants queue up for thermal screening on their arrival at Amethi railway station from Gujarat by a special train, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Amethi. PTI Photo

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Dev 360: Can gutting labour laws spell advantage to India?

The key assumption is that labour rights are a major roadblock to business growth

15 May 2020 5:17 PM IST

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Nilanjan: Abandonment whiff to Centre's lockdown exit

India's ruling establishment has so far come across as a bewildered lot, unsure of any path but polarising politics and...

14 May 2020 5:49 PM IST

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan (PTI)

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Dilli ka Babu: MP's coronavirus blues

The probe has given a clean chit to IAS officers Pallavi Jain Govil and J.Vijay Kumar, both of whom had tested positive...

14 May 2020 5:28 PM IST

r: Farmers harvest strawberries in a field, during the ongoing nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, in Srinagar, Wednesday. PTI photo

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Chandrajit Banerjee: How to restart economy in a way that's safe and...

With companies shutting shop as a result of the lockdown, the corporate performance outlook for the current financial...

13 May 2020 6:16 PM IST

China and India agreed to end the lengthy Doklam standoff in August 2017, with Beijing reportedly abandoning plans to construct the road that had triggered the crisis. (Photo: AFP)

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Claude Arpi: A long hot summer is ahead on Himalayan heights

It is a fact that in early 2017, everyone in New Delhi thought the Sikkim border was a settled issue.

13 May 2020 5:39 PM IST

Employees of German car manufacturer Porsche wear face masks as they work on power trains for the Taycan full-electric sportscar at the production site in Stuttgart, southern Germany. AFP Photo

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Aakar Patel: Job security is a distant dream in lockdown times

The meaning of job security becomes especially clear in a time like this. For crores of us around the globe, that...

12 May 2020 4:36 PM IST

Migrants arriving from Andhra Pradesh undergo thermal screening after deboarding a train at Danapur railway station, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Patna. PTI Photo

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Manish Tewari: India rushes headlong into summer of death

It begs an obvious question if governments are not there to help citizens in need what else are they there for?

11 May 2020 5:29 PM IST

$NHS staff members take part in a national \clap for carers\ to show thanks for the work of Britains National Health Service (NHS) workers and frontline medical staff around the country as they battle with the novel coronavirus pandemic, at Leeds General hospital in Leeds. AFP Photo$ Opinion