Opinion

A look at how the so-called ‘data snipers’ concoct various facts and figures as per their convenience and present a sad picture of India’s COVID fight.

With the second wave, the market has again seen a dip and the recovery will now be W-shaped.

If Ambedkar framed the Constitution, Kanshiram built a solid political infrastructure for the Dalits to ensure their political empowerment.

In 2021, 70 percent of total available vaccine doses have been secured by 16 percent of the world population. Most high-income countries will complete their inoculation drive by the end of 2021.

While vaccines, security and trade remain areas of convergence, possession of Indian treasures, Pakistan and shelter to economic fugitives are issues of divergence.

The Anchorage dialogue threw up an amusing attempt by China to build a new narrative, a phrase that may be misrepresented by Left-leaning media as Chinese democracy.

If the CPM had claimed to choose over 30 fresh faces this election, the Congress nearly doubled that effort with 55 per cent newcomers in its list.

This is a bad loop for the state to get into as expensive debt to pay for revenue expenditure is not only a sign of poor financial management but reduces future ability of the state to boost its local GSDP through capital expenditure on long-term revenue-...

Kamal Haasan has already done a smart thing by selecting Coimbatore South Assembly constituency for his first major fight—the two major Dravidian parties are not contesting here and have allotted the seat to the national parties, the Congress and the BJP.

China’s concerns about the Quad summit are hypocritical. It has established a Quad in our region—the China-Pakistan-Afghanistan-Nepal group—in which Nepal does not fit at all.

With China’s rising military maneuvering in the Indo-Pacific region, formation of the Quad has become a necessity.

Both the AIADMK and the DMK have released their list of candidates. Much, however, depends on how their coalitions work on the ground.

Even as the UDF, with only six partners, is taking its own sweet time for candidate selection, there is no such tardiness in the LDF camp. The BJP, meanwhile, has adopted a wait-and-watch approach.

The new guidelines are in stark contrast to the draconian Draft Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, 2016, which effectively banned the acquisition of geospatial data without a government licence.

Taking the example of Maruti's privatisation, the author explains how the government's approach will help generate wealth and opportunities.

Kerala has the wherewithal to store, distribute and administer the Covid-19 vaccine, better than any other state. The agonisingly slow pace of vaccination that we see across the country must pick up urgently.