RBI seeing light at end of tunnel

There is no disputing the devastation that the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought on the economies of most countries including India. The degree may...

Editorial

9 yesterday

Police must shed skin of brutal authority

Having to take a short cut through the fields once, I asked a small boy tending cows whether a walk in that lonely place was safe. “Oh yes” the...

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

4 yesterday

A flood of liquidity but how will it help?

In times like never, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has acted like never. This is seen in two aspects – one the stuff of headlines and...

R.k.pattnaik

3 yesterday

Afghanistan attack and CAA

No words are strong enough to condemn the dastardly attack on the Kabul Gurdwara on Wednesday which killed 28 people, including eight women and a...

Editorial

10 previous day

A package for poor and needy

Nirmala Sitharaman has come up with a Rs 1.7 lakh crore package to mitigate the misery caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting...

Editorial

8 previous day

Last domino falls: Olympics succumbs to corona threat

On Tuesday this week, Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, and Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, announced the...

Ayaz Memon

8 previous day

Back-breaking lockdown that harms the poor

The phones at the toll-free labour helpline in Rajasthan’s Udaipur district have not stopped ringing since the news of the total national...

Rajiv Khandelwal & Divya Varma

10 previous day

FPJ EDIT: What is Nirmala Sitharaman waiting for?

We just have to live with it. There is no other option. The Prime Minister’s second broadcast on coronavirus in as many weeks on Tuesday evening was...

Editorial

10 thursday

Transformed world awaits us at other end

The pattern of the COVID-19 pandemic follows the logic of globalisation: the regions most affected are the ones which dominate global exchanges....

Bhavdeep Kang

10 thursday

Strategy for healthier India-China trade

China has been a savvy investor in India. Some claim that China has outsmarted India. But such cynical views miss the big picture. China created...

Rn Bhaskar

10 thursday

Facing the inevitable coronavirus pandemic

Corona, speculative mischief suggests, must be of divine provenance. She has the intelligence to slumber, to awaken, to migrate, to disappear, to...

Aseem Shrivastava

8 thursday

Responding to the crisis

At the time of writing, we are unaware about the contents of the Prime Minister’s second broadcast in as many weeks on the dreaded coronavirus....

Editorial

10 25.03.2020

Coronavirus cries against rampant abuse of nature

We have no choice but to take one day at a time. And accept it as it comes. No advance planning. No normal routine. No office. Or for those...

Editorial

8 25.03.2020

The scales tilt in women’s favour

The coronavirus pandemic has taken up so much of our attention and mindspace, that two important pieces of news were played down. One was the...

Deepa Gahlot

2 25.03.2020

Congress first family persists in sordid partisan politics

Politics in the time of the spread of COVID-19 can be as elusive as human relationships during a pandemic. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus in...