The Modi regime’s latest attempt to overshadow the growing farmers’ agitation with a grandiose vaccine dry run hits a roadblock, with many experts raising questions about its rollout. And the protesters are in no mood to relent.

India’s efforts at vaccines since ancient times have served as the foundation for its modern vaccination strategies and as a framework of global vaccination concepts. The public health sensitisation achieved by COVID-19 can help galvanise a broader understanding of vaccination.

A report submitted to the High Court points to the presence of precious minerals in the Tamiraparani riverbed and the illegal mining activity there, adding a new dimension to Tamil Nadu’s mining policy.

The approval process for the two vaccines released for Restricted Emergency Use once again makes it clear that politics, rather than science, is the guiding factor in India’s war against COVID-19.

Trump’s decision to pardon mercenaries guilty of massacring innocents in Baghdad evokes global outcry and consternation within the U.S.

Failing to secure the mandate they wanted in the DDC elections, the BJP and its allies have embarked on a campaign to bag as many council chairmanships for themselves as possible through a combination of tactics, including coercion, horse-trading and preventive detention of members of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration.

Data from the latest round of the National Family Health Survey show disturbing trends in indicators such as nutritional levels.

Even while the real economy remains in contractionary mode, not only have stock market returns exploded but India’s stock of foreign exchange reserves registered record-breaking increases in the April-September 2020 period mainly because expenditure, rather unusually, fell short of receipts in the current account.

Despite several odds and the government refusing to budge, the protest against the farm laws is gaining momentum and the resolve among farmers is growing stronger.

Sugathakumari (1934-2020), Malayalam poet, nature warrior and guardian of grieving hearts, played a leading role in campaigns to save nature and natural resources and undertook a parallel quest to provide sanctuary to destitute women and the mentally challenged.

Changing names of places has always been a political game. Sometimes it is done with progressive intentions, as in the case of the Maharashtra ...

In a far-reaching initiative, Maharashtra plans to rename places having caste-based names.

The MVA’s strategy to meet the Maharashtra electorate as a single entity has been successful and the upcoming local body elections are yet another opportunity to mount a unified challenge to the BJP.

The Biju Janata Dal led by Naveen Patnaik falls back on its old plank of regionalism to hold on to its own political space in the face of an increasingly assertive BJP, which has replaced the Congress as the main opposition party.

In a bid to retain power and be one up on the BJP, the Congress in Chhattisgarh is utilising Hindu symbols to the core.

The police raid on the premises of an advocate who represents several of the North-East Delhi riot accused to search for “incriminating documents” was not only an arbitrary and illegal act but also a breach of client-attorney privacy.