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How Lockdown Led To Spiking Of Gender Gap
By Nupur Dogra Recently, India fell by 28 positions to 140 out of 156 countries in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap report. The report identifies the decrease in women’s participation in the labour force, from 24.8 percent to 22. 3 percent, as one of the major...
Lessons From Pandemic: Build Hospitals, Not Bombs
By Dr. Arun Mitra Even though the world is into the deep crisis of Covid pandemic, the situation in low and medium economic group of countries with limited resources is precarious. For the first time there is a realization that we need huge resources and meticulous planning for universal...
Election Commission Caught In Its Own Trap
By Arun Srivastava The officials of the Election Commission supervising and monitoring the assembly elections to five states probably are from some other planet else how could they impose their irrational and whimsical orders mandatory for entering into counting centres on May 2? The EC officials have asked the...
Second Wave Exposes Tall Claims Of Atmanirbhar Bharat
By Ashok B Sharma The second wave of Coronavirus has brought in a tsunami-like disaster in India with mounting deaths, phenomenal rise in Covid positive cases coupled with acute shortages of vaccines, hospital beds, oxygen, oxygen transport facility and essential drugs needed for treatment like Remdesivir. Black marketing and...
Health Professionals Need Greater Protection
By Gyan Pathak The world has already lost 7,000 health workers since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and about 136 million health and social care workers are at great risk of contracting the infection while braving the disease to help others survive. However, the tremendous pressure of handling the...
When There Was No Oxygen On Modi’s Mind
By K Raveendran Each Mann ki Baat broadcast of Narendra Modi involves elaborate preparations. Often, work on two broadcasts goes on simultaneously. All those who are familiar with television and radio shows know this. But for the average Indian, Modi speaks his mind out every time he airs his...
UP Panchayat Poll Becomes Covid Super-Spreader
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: More than 125 teachers, shiksha mitr and instructors have died in the past 10 days while performing their duty in the panchayat poll, which is proving to be super-spreader. The spokesman of Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh (RSM) has demanded postponement of the remaining phases of panchayat...
Maulana Who Fused Science And Rationality Into Islamic Study
By Harihar Swarup In a Manichean world darkened by narrow binaries, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan often stood as a source of light and hope. With his passing away, India and the world have lost a remarkable religious and Islamic theologian, who tried till the very last to bridge the difference...
We Have Only Ourselves To Blame For Killer Second Wave
By Kalyani Shankar World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has recently said that India’s situation is a devastating reminder of what the coronavirus can do. Indeed, he was right as the country is suffering from a severe and more dangerous second wave of the pandemic. The authorities...
Covid-19 Laying Bare Systematic Vulnerabilities
By Gyan Pathak COVID-19 pandemic is laying bare systematic vulnerabilities and inequalities in just about every economy and society. It is more than just a health crisis, which is driving losses of lives and livelihoods, extreme poverty, inequality, and food security. Apart from this onslaught of ferocious rise in...
Covid Exposes Ineptitude Of Modi Govt, Taming Of Institutions
By Arun Srivastava The oral order of the bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy of Madras High Court holding the Election Commission as “the most irresponsible in not stopping political parties from wanton abuse of the Covid-19 protocol” telling it in no ambiguous term: “You...
So Has India Become The ‘Sick Man Of Asia’?
By Sushil Kutty Last year 2020, an Indian journalist writing for Pakistani newspaper Dawn gave India the sobriquet ‘Sick Man of Asia’, originally the namesake of China, and which was used by the World Street Journal (WSJ), again in 2020, to describe China, which got so pissed off by...
Covid: Modi Govt’s Criminal Abdication Of Responsibility
By Prabir Purkayastha India’s Covid numbers have far outstripped countries like the US and Brazil, which have been the poor performers till now. More worryingly, the number of positives to tests are now more than one out of five, more than four times what it was a few months...
Needed A Comprehensive Plan To Protect Citizen’s Health And Economy
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s economy seems to be going out of control under the pressure of the virulent expansion of Covid-19. What else can explain the rapid fall in industrial production and massive jump of wholesale and retail prices in the last three months? Partial lockdowns are back in...
Coronavirus Waste May Pose Additional Threat
By Gyan Pathak With worst ever surge of COVID-19 in India, 3.55 lakh new cases and 2807 deaths on April 25, reaching the new global highs, is also generating unprecedented high level of coronavirus waste for any country in the world. It may soon pose worst additional threat to...
Indian Navy Shifts Focus To Nuclear Submarines Fleet
By Barun Das Gupta The Indian Navy has recently decided to give top priority to building a fleet of nuclear submarines, armed with nuclear-tipped Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) and build a fleet of six such attack submarines. At present the only India-made nuclear sub is INS Arihant. Another submarine...
Can Modi Get Out Of The Hole He Has Dug Himself Into?
By Sushil Kutty The second coronavirus wave has overwhelmed India with lakhs of Covid-19 cases per day. There’s no breathing space left with the scarcity of life-saving oxygen. Some people are saying there’s conspiracy afoot to malign the Modi Government. The reality is people are waking up to “what...
Winning Bengal Election Is The Top Priority Of RSS
By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has been ruthless in using Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Hindutva face of the country, to accomplish his mission of transforming India into a Hindu Rashtra. Neither the RSS bosses nor the top BJP leaders would concede to the fact that L...
