Opinion

The challenge before the government, whatever the amount of money to be sanctioned for the rehabilitation of informal section, is reaching out directly.

The most disappointing aspect of packaging routine government policy work as reforms is that the government is leaning on those who have benefited from the strangulation of the Indian economy to de-strangulate it.

The call for ‘Vocal for Local’ will be more successful if entire production, storage, processing and branding be as per the Agro-climatic zones. This is going to be truly local then.

The world may never revert to the kind of blocs that characterised the Cold War.

The most pertinent question after Naikoo’s death is whether Hizbul Mujahideen as an outfit matters anymore.

The Congress was said to be insisting on contesting two legislative council, with the NCP fighting from just one, but the demand was rejected.

The anti-India and anti-Modi campaign, which has been started by Pakistan is an attempt to create a notion that Muslims are facing immense hardships in India and the present dispensation led by BJP is out to throw Muslims out of the country.

For self-sufficiency, the immediate need is creation of infrastructure like hospitals, cold storage, ware housing facilities, mandi yards, alternative employment activities like cottage industry and food parks in rural areas.

Survey assessing impact of 21-day lockdown finds these migrant workers have little to no access to social security benefits

The recent HC order giving a curfew pass to a cat lover to buy biscuits has highlighted Kerala’s love for pets.

Before the resumption of mass transit services in particular, adequate precautionary measures would have to be taken to minimise the spread of the pandemic.

In the wake of Covid-19, the 21-day lockdown of the country has had a dramatic impact on air pollution across India.

Migration in various forms and in various stages of history brought money, culture and diseases together and the poor become 'compelled carriers' of these diseases.

The crisis has awakened a new energy and responsible aspirations among the rank and file of India’s leadership.

Many health professionals are forecasting India as the next big hotspot of the COVID-19 pandemic. But still, India has managed to keep the escalation of the disease and the number of fatalities in check.

The action plan is based on examination of facts on the disease, strategies of different nations which have proved successful in containment, and scientific research which offers reasonable models for future course of the epidemic.