Opinion

Aarogya Setu will be instrumental in keeping the users informed about their health status and of those around them by mapping the trajectories of the spread of the virus.

The first thing to be said about the world after Coronavirus is that it cannot be — and should not be — the world before COVID-19.

In a crisis, the present can appear to overwhelm all else. But good leaders must also keep an eye on long-term objectives because an excessive focus on the present can sometimes jeopardise the future.

What endears the prime minister to his countrymen is his integrity and sincerity. Modi has emerged as the guardian of one and all and has been taking care of all sections of society.

The political class of the country would do better by keeping aside their games of one-upmanship on social media aside for a while and focus on saving humanity.

The fight against the coronavirus pandemic is not just a national one, but it is also a battle being waged by individual states, districts and cities.

Many calamities and epidemics in history aggravated because of callous and insensitive attitude of rulers; yet these rulers have managed to evade the blame and project themselves as heroes.

Several epidemics have ravaged the country over the years and people frequently found deities and rituals to keep them going through the difficult times.

Though he was also sidelined for some time like Vasundhara Raje and Raman Singh - the other senior chief ministers who lost their states - Chouhan came back into Modi-Shah’s good books.

Whether it was the 2011 earthquake in the Northeast and eastern India, the 2013 floods in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Nepal, the 2014 earthquake in Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistan, or the 2015 floods in southern India—at every instance, Narendra Modi, as...

Faced with possible action of contempt of court and uproar in the media, the MoD asked the PCDA to withdraw the circular mandating Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) on disability. But it was the MoD in the first place that had asked the PCDA to do so.

Many of the BJP voters and supporters of this new political mix do not subscribe to the hard-right and hyper-nationalism posture adopted by the party. But their rejection of the Left and the erstwhile leftist-socialist political narrative is greater than...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and the RBI have jumped the gun. Any sustained revival in the economy could still be far, far away.

‘Pariksha Pe Charcha’ gives us a perfect template on how to deal with concerns of students. It also serves the larger purpose of instilling the right attitude in the younger generation in dealing with the minor and major setbacks in life.

Like his induction into the dust-and-grime of electoral politics, which party insiders said was meant to keep leaders with soaring aspirations in check, Aaditya’s entry into the cabinet and choice of portfolios is also strategic.

The overall verdict is teeming with gaping holes, such that one could drive a coach through them.