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Sep 20, 2020
Tamil Nadu's anti-pandemic strategy is marred by flawed protocols and alleged manipulation of numbers.
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Sep 20, 2020
The fight against COVID-19 fades into the background as the opposition tries to beat the government image in political games.
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Sep 18, 2020
The impasse at Visva-Bharati that followed the violence over the issue of constructing a wall around the Poush Mela ground continues.
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Sep 14, 2020
The recent High Court verdicts ordering the quashing of cases filed against members of the Tablighi Jamaat under the IPC and the Epidemic Diseases Act will hopefully also mark the end of the vilification of India's largest Muslim organisation.
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Sep 14, 2020
Interview with Dr Bevinje Srinivas Kakkilaya, consultant physician who writes regularly on issues of public health.
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Sep 13, 2020
Interview with Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, World Health Organisation, South-East Asia.
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Sep 13, 2020
Statistics belie the government's self-congratulatory proclamations on the management of the COVID crisis in India.
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Sep 11, 2020
The Centre's top-down approach to COVID-19 and its exercise of control on the release of data to the public domain have led to flawed strategies and mismanagement in the battle against the pandemic.
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Sep 11, 2020
The Centre's top-down approach to COVID-19 and its exercise of control on the release of data to the public domain have led to flawed strategies and mismanagement in the battle against the pandemic.
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Sep 10, 2020
The August 22 declaration of six mainstream political parties represents the first major exhibition of resolve on their part to come together and leverage their political strengths and advantages and use their combined platform to take on New Delhi's ideologically driven agendas in Kashmir.
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Sep 09, 2020
Interview with Professor Ranbir Singh, Chairperson, Committee for Reforms in Criminal Laws.
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Sep 08, 2020
Karnataka registers more COVID cases following the ramping up of testing and removal of most of the restrictions.
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Sep 08, 2020
In Kerala, hundreds of people are getting infected daily through local transmission, infection from unknown sources has increased manifold, and the government is warning against complacency.
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Sep 07, 2020
While Andhra Pradesh becomes the second State, after Maharashtra, to have the largest number of COVID cases, Telangana pays the price for its government's flawed initial strategy.
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Sep 07, 2020
In August, Uttar Pradesh recorded its highest spurt in cases and the government seems clueless about how to handle it, but the people, especially farmers, are learning to cope in surprising ways.
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Sep 06, 2020
The Centre's decision to hold final-year examinations amid the raging pandemic displays a complete lack of sensitivity to students' concerns, the digital divide and the spiralling cases.
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Sep 05, 2020
Rajasthan prepares for an effective strategy to contain the infection, which has spread to almost every part of the State.
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Sep 05, 2020
The Delhi administration carries out a demolition drive in the slum clusters even as COVID-19 cases and containment zones rise sharply again in the National Capital Territory.
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Sep 04, 2020
The level of infection in the State is still high but with more establishments and businesses opening up in Unlock 4.0, the situation is likely to go out of control.
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Sep 04, 2020
In a bid to prevent a second wave of infection, the Thackeray government proceeds with caution in easing lockdown restrictions.
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Sep 02, 2020
The new EIA draft notification, which exempts 40 types of projects from prior environmental clearance and deprives local communities of a say in the matter in the name of ease of doing business, poses a grave threat to the environment.
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Aug 31, 2020
Research in health sciences in India is no more oriented towards problem-solving based on years of field work, one of the reasons why many old and new diseases continue to haunt us.
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Aug 31, 2020
Devotional Hinduisim has been quick to use technology in its pursuit of spirituality, with worshippers staying safe at home while performing their rituals in sync with a global community of devotees. To see these practices as being separate from the political project of consolidating the nation on religious lines would be a mistake.
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Aug 31, 2020
Pune and Berhampur follow the example of Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad and conduct sero-surveys among their populations. But the utility of these studies is limited because they cannot be used to make comparisons or come up with a nationwide picture of the spread or severity of COVID-19.
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Aug 27, 2020
It is incumbent upon the state to act and remedy the pernicious influence of caste by eradicating its hierarchies and doing so requires looking at reservation as a component of political equality.
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Aug 25, 2020
Questions surround the fate of three young men who came to Shopian district in search of work and went missing at the same time that the security forces killed three unidentified "militants" in an encounter.
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Aug 22, 2020
The media, for the most part, acted as cheerleaders rather than alert watchdogs in the coverage of the bhumi pujan of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
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Aug 21, 2020
Hany Babu is the latest victim of the Bhima Koregaon case, which drags on with no end in sight for the arrestees who languish in jail without bail.
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Aug 21, 2020
Interview with Zafarul-Islam Khan, former Chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission.
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Aug 21, 2020
Even as interrogations, arrests and charge-sheeting of anti-CAA protesters as instigators of the February riots in North East Delhi continue despite the pandemic, more and more people feel that the inquiry is a ruse to target critics of the BJP government.
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Aug 21, 2020
Bihar is reeling from floods and the pandemic, but the government appears to be paying more attention to the preparations to hold the Assembly elections which are due in November.
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Aug 21, 2020
With more than 6,000 deaths, including those of doctors and paramedical personnel, and 50,000-plus active infections so far, Tamil Nadu's battle against COVID-19 is floundering.
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Aug 21, 2020
Uttar Pradesh becomes the first State to hold an Assembly session following the outbreak of COVID-19, but complaints grow about the government's casualness in handling the crisis.
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Aug 20, 2020
Kerala enters another phase in its COVID-19 containment efforts as experts warn that cases of infection may peak in the coming months.
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Aug 20, 2020
The emergence of new COVID hotspots in hitherto unaffected areas in Haryana is attributed to people's reluctance to report symptoms and seek treatment at public health-care centres.
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Aug 19, 2020
Both the Central and State governments are claiming credit for the "Delhi model" which contained the rate of infection in the capital, but there is still a long way to go.
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Aug 19, 2020
The spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in Karnataka is apparently directly linked to the increase in testing. From early August, close to 50,000 tests were done every day in the State.
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Aug 19, 2020
AS the case numbers grow in West Bengal and complaints pile up against hospitals—government ones face complaints of callousness, neglect, and inability of patients to gain admission—the administration moves to put in place new measures, but it may be too late to win back the trust of the people.
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Aug 19, 2020
There are signs of recovery in the State and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's decision to lift the lockdown restrictions in stages and not do things in a hurry seems to be validated.
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Aug 19, 2020
One year after Jammu and Kashmir was deprived of its special status and its mainstream political voices were stifled, the people of the valley remain committed to fighting for justice.
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Aug 19, 2020
With ramped up testing, priority to plasma therapy and special attention to the worst-affected districts, the Naveen Patnaik government is confident of gaining the upper hand in the fight against the coronavirus.
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Aug 18, 2020
Interview with Thangam Thennarasu, DMK leader and former Education Minister.
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Aug 18, 2020
Christian institutions allege increase in violence against their members during the lockdown.
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Aug 18, 2020
In a bid to cover up his mishandling of the COVID situation in the State and win back the electorate's trust, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announces several pro-poor schemes and initiatives.
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Aug 17, 2020
Interview with Professor K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India, and member of the ICMR's high-level technical committee of public health experts on COVID-19.
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Aug 17, 2020
Overcrowded prisons across India have become fertile breeding grounds for the coronavirus.
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Aug 17, 2020
Ventilators funded with government money do not seem to meet the required standards, and the way they were procured point to flagrant violations of rules and norms at multiple levels.
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Aug 16, 2020
The government continues to harp on its successes even as it bungles on testing methods and life-saving equipment and the confirmed cases and daily deaths hit new highs.
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Aug 16, 2020
More than 15 years into its existence, the country's "revamped" public health surveillance still lacks coordination, adequate resources, and is ridden with significant gaps in the monitoring of many infectious diseases.
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Aug 13, 2020
Now that there is some data in the public domain about the seroprevalence of COVID-19 in India, it is possible to say that about one out of four to five individuals in major cities has been infected, but the Indian population is still nowhere close to achieving herd immunity.
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Aug 13, 2020
The former ISRO scientist gets an "additional compensation and solatium" totalling Rs.1.3 crore for being wrongly implicated in the infamous spy case.
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Aug 07, 2020
SWAN, a network of volunteers who banded together to help thousands of migrant workers in distress, has released reports that could prove valuable in shaping labour policies.
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Aug 06, 2020
State governments and the teaching community are opposed to the UGC's July 6 directive, which insists that final year students have to write final term examinations if they want to get their degrees.
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Aug 05, 2020
Educationists see a Hindutva hand in the Central Board of Secondary Education's decision to selectively reduce the syllabi for Classes 9 to 12 this year citing the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Aug 04, 2020
The daily number of COVID-19 cases and deaths hit new highs in July but the government continues to remain in self-congratulatory mode, blind to the possibility of community transmission.
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Aug 04, 2020
East Bengal Football Club faces its darkest hour without a sponsor, but it remains strong in the love and loyalty of millions of supporters.
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Aug 03, 2020
Reliance's claim that it has developed fully "indigenous" 5G capability appears dubious given the way the technology has evolved across the world. Its pole position in the Indian telecom market raises fears that this may limit India's capabilities in telecommunications in the future.
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Aug 02, 2020
The Centre abrogated Articles 370 and 35A supposedly as a cure-all for all Jammu and Kashmir's problems, but a year on, the economy of the region is in the doldrums, while the sense of disillusionment, frustration and alienation among the people is only increasing.
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Aug 02, 2020
Sa. Kandasamy (1940-2020), an eminent writer and conscientious documentary filmmaker, believed in expressing profound ideas in simple words and was not trapped by labels.
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Jul 31, 2020
Interview with Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami, CPI(M) MLA for Kulgam.
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Jul 27, 2020
Four candidate vaccines are ready to proceed to the critical third phase of clinical trials. But, as this phase takes a long time and as controlled laboratory studies do not guarantee that a vaccine will work in normal settings, realistically, there is not likely to be a vaccine for public use before early to mid 2021.
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Jul 27, 2020
A gold smuggling case being investigated by Central agencies, with alleged links to terror financing, kicks up a political storm in Kerala.
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Jul 24, 2020
COVID-19 and the world of the new normal.
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Jul 23, 2020
The Maharashtra government has started the process to build a greenfield airport in Chandrapur district even though that will result in the loss of a virgin reserve/protected forest and a vital tiger corridor.
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Jul 23, 2020
Haryana's strict lockdown measures do not seem to have succeeded in containing the spread of the coronavirus.
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Jul 23, 2020
The people of Uttar Pradesh, especially the poor and marginalised, are facing a grim future as the deteriorating law and order situation compounds their economic hardship and the State's COVID-19 crisis.
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Jul 23, 2020
The rapid spread of community clusters and the steady rise in cases of infection are putting Kerala's public health system under pressure.
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Jul 23, 2020
Andhra Pradesh has increased testing and strengthened its public health infrastructure and human resource to tackle the fast-growing COVID numbers as the State fears that the peaking will come before the predicted date.
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Jul 22, 2020
There seems to be a sudden spread of the virus in Punjab as people shake off precautionary measures with the easing of lockdown restrictions.
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Jul 22, 2020
Gujarat is again showing a surge after businesses and factories start operating as part of the unlocking process and people start moving across districts.
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Jul 22, 2020
After initial hesitation, Telangana begins testing on a large scale by involving the private sector as the disease, earlier confined to Hyderabad, spreads to rural areas.
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Jul 22, 2020
Karnataka's initial record in restricting the spread of COVID-19 has been upset by an alarming increase in cases of infection across the State with Bengaluru emerging as a new national hotspot.
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Jul 22, 2020
As the rise in infections seems to have plateaued in Mumbai, the Maharashtra government turns its attention to the rest of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region and districts where the virus is active.
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Jul 21, 2020
The government's indifference to containment measures and to the urgent need to strengthen the public heath infrastructure results in a rise in COVID-19 cases in Bihar. Jharkhand is hurriedly readying its district hospitals to deal with the crisis.
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Jul 21, 2020
As COVID cases soar in West Bengal, the State government admits that there has been community spread in several parts and experts stress the need for decentralised testing.
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Jul 21, 2020
The State administration is trying to grapple with the situation arising out of the spread of the virus with pro-active measures such as plasma therapy and incentives for health workers. By Prafulla Das
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Jul 19, 2020
The ban on 59 Chinese apps is a knee-jerk reaction that can only have adverse consequences for the Indian digital ecosystem. It is unlikely to promote self-reliance nor does it lay the ground for indigenously developed Indian platforms.
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Jul 18, 2020
Interview with Professor T.N. Prakash Kammardi, former chairman, Karnataka Agricultural Prices Commission.
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Jul 18, 2020
The Karnataka government's decision, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, to introduce an amendment Bill to make it possible for non-agriculturists to buy agricultural land, triggers protests by opposition parties and farmers' bodies.
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Jul 17, 2020
Farmers in Madhya Pradesh are critical of the two recent Central ordinances relating to agriculture and of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for not helping them in their hour of crisis.
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Jul 17, 2020
The strong-arm methods adopted by rich farmers to force agricultural labour to work at lower wages following the pandemic-induced shortage of migrant workers exposes the fault lines in rural Punjab. The question of land becomes central again as the battle rages on caste and class lines.
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Jul 16, 2020
The Modi government's move to ban all things Chinese is likely to aggravate conditions for the pandemic-hit Indian economy. The pursuit of national self-reliance requires a blueprint that maps out how to achieve it over the long term, with the state playing a key role in the process. China offers lessons, which India could profit from.
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Jul 15, 2020
After weeks of tension India and China agree to expedite disengagement of the troops stationed along the Line of Actual Control and desist from taking any unilateral action to change the status quo.
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Jul 14, 2020
The Nagaland government's recent ban on the sale of dog meat has not only polarised conversations about what is and what is not food but also shows how we have turned animals' bodies into battlegrounds for our politics and biases.
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Jul 14, 2020
The Supreme Court sets aside a High Court verdict on the status of the ‘Ruler of Travancore', but has ordered the constitution of an administrative committee headed by the district judge of Thiruvananthapuram and an advisory committee for the management of the temple.
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Jul 10, 2020
The custodial torture and deaths of a father-son duo in Tamil Nadu rip apart the police's image, while the judiciary makes unprecedented interventions in a bid to deliver justice.
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Jul 10, 2020
Instances of police brutality and torture have a long history in Tamil Nadu. Here is a list of a few of the most notorious cases:• Muthukulathur Keela
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Jul 08, 2020
Amid views of the The Resistance Front's potential ability to script a turnaround in militancy, intelligence and security personnel believe that actors from across the border are arming and pushing battle-hardened Jaish-e-Mohammad cadre into the Valley.
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Jul 07, 2020
Amid views of the The Resistance Front's potential ability to script a turnaround in militancy, intelligence and security personnel believe that actors from across the border are arming and pushing battle-hardened Jaish-e-Mohammad cadre into the Valley.
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Jul 07, 2020
The new media policy in Jammu and Kashmir seeks to kill journalism in the troubled region where the local press continues to be in a state of numbness.
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Jul 06, 2020
Trinamool leaders at the panchayat level face the fury of the victims of the supercyclone for alleged misappropriation of relief funds disbursed by the State government.
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Jul 06, 2020
Trinamool leaders at the panchayat level face the fury of the victims of the supercyclone for alleged misappropriation of relief funds disbursed by the State government.
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Jul 06, 2020
The proposals in the Electricity (Amendment) Bill to "reform" the power sector, issued in the midst of a pandemic, threaten to result in higher energy costs, violate long-cherished principles of federalism, and leave India's most vulnerable to the caprices of the market.
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Jul 06, 2020
Scientific conferences have become public relations exercises instead of functioning as spaces where scientific ideas are exchanged and new ideas encouraged.
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Jul 05, 2020
The Central government appears determined to auction off the country's coal resources despite the widespread opposition to it and the fact that the human and environmental costs of opening up the coal mining sector to commercial exploitation far outweigh the benefits.
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Jul 04, 2020
India accepts an international tribunal order in the case relating to the killing of two fishermen by Italian marines off the Kerala coast. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is not happy.
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Jul 01, 2020
Tensions raised by the bloody June 15 clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers in the Galwan Valley remain, but both sides have apparently decided to choose dialogue rather than aggressive rhetoric as the way forward.
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Jun 30, 2020
The Madras High Court, which supervises the investigation in the custodial death of the father-son duo in Sathankulam, finds prima facie evidence to slap murder charges against the police. By Ilangovan Rajasekaran
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Jun 29, 2020
The Kashmiri diaspora gathers strength to internationalise resistance against the government's political incursions in the Kashmir Valley.
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Jun 26, 2020
The Central government's latest plan to auction off 41 coal blocks in the forest areas of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh poses a threat to these eco-sensitive areas, and especially in Maharashtra it threatens one of India's premier tiger reserves and a crucial wildlife corridor.
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