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File photo of prime minister Narendra Modi chairing a meeting of the National Disaster Management Authority in New Delhi in 2018. (PIB)

Saikat Datta: Why we lurch from one disaster to another

We have no institutional memory of what worked and what didn't in past crises

11 April 2020 11:12 PM IST

A boy and a girl roaming in a deserted street as nation wide lock down is in force in New Delhi on Sunday, March 29,2020. Photograph......Pritam Bandyopadhyay

Is the world all set to experience a Coronaissance'?

The Great Bubonic Plague primed Europe for the Renaissance

10 April 2020 8:36 PM IST

Migrant workers line up outside the Anand Vihar bus terminal in New Delhi to leave for their villages in the wake of the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown announced by prime minister Narendra Modi. On March 28, tens of thousands of migrant workers fought and shoved their way onto buses organised by Uttar Pradesh to go to their home towns. (AFP)

Why PM Modi should make a call to Naveen Patnaik

The Odisha CM would have some valuable insights on how to plan for a disaster

29 March 2020 8:31 AM IST

Buses carrying members of a medical assistance team from Shenyang leave Shenyang Taoxian Airport upon their return home after helping with the COVID-19 coronavirus recovery effort in Wuhan, in Shenyang in Chinas northeastern Liaoning province on March 20, 2020. China on March 19 marked a major milestone in its battle against the coronavirus pandemic as it recorded zero domestic infections for the first time since the outbreak emerged, but a spike in imported cases threatened its progress. (AFP)

China begins Information Warfare

What China does not seem to understand is that even if she wins a few IW battles, this will not help her to become a...

23 March 2020 5:59 PM IST

When you are quarantined with your parents, is it house arrest?

Amid siege outside, love finds a way in

Finally I have been able to accomplish the two basic human needs without having to fret or fight: to love and be loved...

22 March 2020 6:16 AM IST

This is a breach of the right to privacy.

DC Edit: Why does the government need cell phone data now?

The directive to telecom operators to provide CDRs of all mobile phone users in the country raises suspicions of...

20 March 2020 2:25 PM IST

Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures as he arrives at his office in Tokyo on March 18, 2020. Abe said the country will expand quarantine measures and a ban on entry from parts of countries including Italy and Spain affected by the coronavirus outbreak. (AFP)

Inadequacies in fighting coronavirus raise questions over Tokyo...

The coronavirus could not have hit Japan at a more inappropriate time

19 March 2020 10:09 AM IST

In American troops in Afghanistan. The US is keen to end its longest-ever conflict, and under the terms of a deal signed in Doha last month has said all foreign forces will quit Afghanistan within 14 months -- provided the Taliban stick to their security commitments. (AFP)

In post-US Afghanistan, what are Indiaâ€™s options?

New Delhi has to move beyond its wait and watch policy

18 March 2020 11:51 PM IST

An Indian policeman looks out from a tent at an isolation ward set up for COVID-19 suspects in Jammu, March 11, 2020. (AP)

The rising China virus threat: For India, a spell of self-isolation is...

India should never get involved wholeheartedly in the business of globalisation, which has turned out to be a bit of a...

17 March 2020 9:18 PM IST

Shoppers wearing masks are faced with partially empty shelves at a supermarket in London on March 14, 2020, as consumers worry about product shortages, leading to the stockpiling of household products due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Faced with supermarkets being emptied and online shopping overrun due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UK retailers are appealing to consumers to come to their senses and ensure that the country will not run out of food. (AFP)

London Diary: We can-'t have a herd immunity approach to coronavirus...

For herd immunity to work, experts say around 60 per cent of the population, some 40 million people, need to catch the...

16 March 2020 6:37 PM IST

National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah with his wife Mollie Abdullah (left) and daughter Safiya Abdullah (right) speaks to the media after his release from detention on March 13, 2020. (PTI)

Farooqâ€™s Abdullah-'s silence is a statement

People in Kashmir have grown sceptical about Dr Abdullahâ€™s next move

16 March 2020 4:34 PM IST

A child Khushi plays with her toys in her burnt house which was attacked in the recent clashes in Delhi. (PTI)

Memories of another riot: Lessons of 1984 not learnt

The Congress Party never recovered from that genocide. But nor did we.

13 March 2020 9:10 PM IST