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Vaccination Of 18-44 Age Group: The Scam After Scam
By Raveendran It took barely a few days to realise that the May 1 target for rolling out the vaccination of the 18-44 age group, by far the biggest segment of the Indian population, was a scam. May 1 came and went off as a non-event. By May 1...
Containing Covid-19 In Rural India Would Be More Challenging
By Gyan Pathak The Centre has finally discussed the strategies to contain and manage COVID-19 in the rural India, but only after the Ganges, the holiest river of the country, was found with hundreds of bodies floating on the water and buried in its sand, revealing how the disease...
India At Worst In Covid Crisis In South Asia
By Dr Arun Mitra The number of COVID cases and deaths due to it is a cause of grave concern. Presently India stands number two in the total number of COVID cases in the world after USA. True that we have a large population and so the number is...
Indu Jain: The Life-Long Spiritual Seeker
By Harihar Swarup Indu Jain, Chairman of Time of India Group, life-long spiritual seeker, pioneering philanthropist, distinguish pioneer of the arts, and passion of women’s rights, left body conscious and merged with cosmic consciousness. As tributes poured in for her from statesmen and spiritual masters—among many others– friends and...
Economy Tumbles, 1 Crore Jobs Lost Since January
By Subodh Varma The number of employed persons in India plummeted from about 40 crore in January to 39 crore in April 2021. That’s a loss of one crore employed persons, one of the steepest falls ever in four months, barring the brutal devastation caused by last year’s complete...
Migrant Crisis Comes Back To Haunt Second Wave
By Anusha R and Tanvi Singh The migrant crisis haunts India again, along with the sight of thousands of migrants leaving Maharashtra and other states to head home. While the capitalistic legislative intent of the new labour codes is much-talked-about, the immediate administrative focus right now needs to be...
It Is Time For Cooperation And Not Confrontation
By Kalyani Shankar There is a three-way confrontation going on amidst the raging Covid pandemic. The first is between the executive and judiciary, the second between the Union government and state governments. The third is between the authorities and the public. As world-famous leaders like Theodore Roosevelt and Winston...
Amit Shah’s Dangerous Mission Endangers Democratic Institutions
By Arun Srivastava There is no more obscurity about the intention. The war cries have become loud and shrill and reverberating in the battle field of Bengal. Undeniably the first assault has been launched by home minister Amit Shah. With a gullible Governor Jagdeep Dhankar on his side, willing...
West Bengal Arrests Smack Politics Of Vendetta
By Barun Das Gupta The Kolkattans woke up on Monday morning and learnt that two ministers, Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, a former minister, Madan Mitra and a former minister and former mayor of Kolkata, Sobhan Chattopadhyaya, had been arrested by the CBI in connection with the sting operation...
Pandemic Diminishes Modi’s Stature At Home And Abroad
By Sushil Kutty The Allahabad High Court says Uttar Pradesh citizens afflicted with Covid-19 have been left to ‘Ram Bharose’, meaning to the whims and fancies of the Almighty, especially those in the small towns and villages of Yogi Adityanath’s slipping out-of-hand bastion. The high court wasn’t happy that...
