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By Ajit Ranade |
When the national lockdown was imposed on March 24, with four hours notice, the country had less than 200 positive…
In the last fortnight, Union Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar had two meetings in quick succession…
By Thomas Isaac |
The global economy and the national economy are facing a crisis which by scale and nature is unprecedented in modern…
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The heart-wrenching ghastly incident of 16 migrants being mowed down under a running goods train in Maharashtra on May…
By Ajit Ranade |
What if you lose your job, but not health insurance? What if you lose your monthly income but get paid unemployment…
There have been concerns about how the Centre itself records these numbers, given that the official narrative is that…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Imagine a post-Covid India in which the most important persons in the Union Cabinet are not the Ministers of Finance,…
By Ajit Ranade |
Almost five weeks into the lockdown, it is clear that we are going to have a long hard summer. The economic hardships…
As lockdowns continue to be the most frequently-resorted-to response strategy to the threat of COVID-19, governments…
By Ajit Ranade |
The official stock of food-grain with the Food Corporation of India stood at 77.7 million tonnes as of March 1. This…
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This is a time to focus our attention on fighting COVID-19, not fanning communal fires. Pic: A section of the…
By Thomas Isaac |
It was about a week back that Kerala had the dubious distinction of having the highest number of patients in the…
By Pavitra Mohan |
A simple document, some facts and good referencing to separate myth from reality in the time of COVID-19
