Opinion
After an Unviable Experiment, Vaccine Recentralisation Will Rejuvenate India's Covid Battle
While the original plan of 30 crore fully vaccinated individuals by July may extend by a few weeks, the year-end target can be more ambitious.
The View Behind the Wall: China’s Biowarfare Ambitions are Unsettling
Of the many military applications of biotechnology, the creation of biological weapons is the most lethal and offensive.
With Eye on China’s Vaccine Diplomacy, India & US Must Collaborate to Meet Needs of Developing World
This is the reason that Jaishankar stressed while in the US that the pandemic cannot be fought if only a part of the world is protected and other parts are neglected.
How China Shot Itself in the Foot on EU-US Relations
After March 22, Beijing pulled out all the stops against the Europeans, as Chinese official statements and state media irately called the Germans ‘Nazis’.
Black Fungus Symptoms And Trigger: Understanding An Epidemic Within The Covid-19 Pandemic
Thousands of people “cured” of COVID-19 have started coming back with complaints of black discharge from the nose or black patches on the face
After Bengal Poll Results, Mamata Emerges as Only Hope for Oppn Against PM Modi in 2024
For Mamata Banerjee there will be a huge challenge to face a tough opposition in the form of BJP and not the drained and defeated Left Front or the Congress.
Vaccine Passports & Travel Bubbles: How International Air Travel Won’t Be the Same Post-COVID
Travel that has been about connection and commerce may devolve into a myriad web of procedures, policies and protocols.
Single-use Plastic Bioreactor Bags to Filters: Why India Needs Them From The US for COVID Vaccines
These raw materials for vaccines are produced in a limited number of countries, around 27, and by a limited number of manufacturers, around 270.
West Bengal Elections: A Former CEC Explains Why Clubbing Remaining Phases with Last Phase is Doable
It would have been ideal to shorten the campaign and finish the polls at the earliest, but that is not legally possible after notification is issued for each phase.
Don’t Just Blame ‘Irresponsible Citizens’ For COVID Wave. Science Tells Us There’s Another Factor at Play
The ‘irresponsible citizen’ narrative shifts the responsibility for health disproportionately on to the people.
Has Assertion of Democratic Rights Failed Us in the Testing Times of Covid-19 Pandemic?
As the pandemic follows its cyclical course, restrictions earlier seen as reasonable and necessary have been dumped. In the end, we all are to blame.
What The Fork: When Gujarati Farsaan Came to the Rescue of Kunal Vijayakar and Friends in Scotland
Till today, when I go to eat a Gujarati Thali, the first thing I look for on the menu is the list of that day’s Farsaan.
The 7th Fleet Commander Statement Shows Just One Thing—United States’ Stupidity
The United States’ Freedom of Navigation programme and the activities undertaken within it are not new.
What The Fork: How Kunal Vijayakar, Who Grew up in a Fish-eating Family, Fell for the Humble Chicken
My grandmother who ran our kitchens called it the bird that pecks at rubbish in the grass, and sneered at the thought of chicken.
Bad Banks Could Be the Much-needed Vaccine to Check the Zooming NPA Crisis Amid Pandemic
As opposed to the villainous name given to it, ‘bad banks’ are known as helpful sponges across the world.
Jungle Raj in New York: Global Media Pointed Fingers at India, Skirting Mayhem Back Home
We must discard any illusion that the global media is looking out for the welfare of the people of India.
