We are witnessing a great humanitarian tragedy unfolding right in front of our eyes: large groups of hungry and jobless migrant labour struggling to go home and the…
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There are unanswered questions around the origin, spread and transparency of communications about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the new coronavirus disease that…
There is belated realisation among health experts, policymakers and elected representatives that the SARS Coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is here to stay. It will…
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The heart-wrenching ghastly incident of 16 migrants being mowed down under a running goods train in Maharashtra on May 8 raises several questions on the mobility of…
By Ajit Ranade |
What if you lose your job, but not health insurance? What if you lose your monthly income but get paid unemployment insurance? What if your livelihood collapses, but…
By Lekha Rattanani |
A highly strained relationship between Maharashtra and New Delhi is being tested by the recent decision of the Modi Government to set up the International Financial…
There have been concerns about how the Centre itself records these numbers, given that the official narrative is that the epidemic curve will now be headed downward.
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In a surprise move, the Government of India (GoI) in consultation with the RBI has enhanced the magnitude of its gross market borrowing programme to ₹12 lakh crore for…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
Workers left to starve to death, while air force jets generously spray hospitals with rose petals from the air. (Oil prices have clearly crashed, with much else). A…
By M A Kalam |
Covid-19 is a jolt to the way we work and live. The response, what the IMF has called “The Great Lockdown”, was a different kind of jolt. Now, the lifting of the…
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In our fight against Covid-19, lockdown 1.0 lasted 21 days. Lockdown 2.0, which is now nearing the end, is for 19 days. We are already gearing for lockdown 3.0, and one…
By Hyjel D'Souza |
Meera Damor is a nurse at a primary healthcare clinic in Bedawal village, some 70 Km south of Udaipur district headquarters.
By Sudarshan Iyengar |
The Chicago convention in 1884 of the Federation of Organised Trades and Labour Unions resolved that “eight hours shall constitute a legal day’s labour from and after…
(Over most of April and May, as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in India, growing from just a handful of cases to take region after region in its grasp, Dr…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Imagine a post-Covid India in which the most important persons in the Union Cabinet are not the Ministers of Finance, Home or Defence but the Minister of Health &…