Confronting ever more deadly military repression, and with little support from outside, the people of Myanmar are somehow finding ways to fight back.

The spectre of civil war looms large in Myanmar as opposition parties persist in a nationwide civil unrest even as 10 of the country’s major rebel gro

V. Anaimuthu (1925-2021), who strove to combine Periyarism with Marxism, will be remembered for his marathon labour of editing E.V. Ramasamy Periyar’s

What started out as a probe into a bomb scare incident near the Ambanis’ residence in Mumbai has spiralled into an investigation into allegations of c

Non-availability of doses is hampering the State’s vaccination drive even as the sudden increase in cases, attributed to a new strain of the virus, ha

In Andhra Pradesh, entire families are getting the infection owing to asymptomatic cases and patients are slipping into distress within days, leaving

A Varanasi court order seeking an ASI survey of the Gyanvapi mosque emboldens Sangh Parivar outfits to start campaigns for ‘liberating’ the Kashi Vish

Interview with Dr Shashank Joshi, member of the Maharashtra COVID Task Force and a consultant endocrinologist at Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital.

Bengaluru has more than 65 per cent of all active cases recorded in Karnataka in a virulent second wave where the test positivity rate in the State is

The Kerala government intensifies its containment and prevention strategies to bring down the test positivity rate during the second wave of infection

Chhattisgarh’s public health structure is on the verge of breakdown as it faces a deadly second wave.

An attempt to understand India’s paradox of high COVID infection rate but low case rate and low case fatality rate and their implications for controll

COVID numbers in Gujarat are rising dangerously, straining the State’s poor public health infrastructure. But the government is in denial.

Interview with Sachin Sawant, spokesperson for the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee.

As the pandemic rages across the world and nations of the global South continue to face several hurdles, billionaires add to their wealth and military

A sudden surge in COVID cases in Uttar Pradesh exposes the State government’s unpreparedness in handling the crisis.

India had a golden opportunity to evaluate every serious ‘adverse events following immunisation’, but in the absence of trained public health officers

Opting for cooperation over coercion in its new COVID control policy, Maharashtra struggles with a truculent public and politicking by the Centre.

Interview with the historian Romila Thapar.

As foreign-made vaccines are cleared for emergency use and post-approval parallel bridging clinical trials are waiting to be done, it becomes imperati

The elections, especially in West Bengal and Assam, have been marked by vituperative campaigns and communally polarising statements in violation of th

In the final three phases of the Assembly election in West Bengal, the BJP and the Trinamool are locked in tough contests in several of the 114 consti

As the second wave of COVID-19 rages across the nation overwhelming the public health system, the Central government remains clueless and ill-prepared

A remarkable collection of 13 essays, written over three decades in the best traditions of Indian historiography, on the making of Odisha as a region.

The Joe Biden administration may have ambitions of restoring U.S. economic competitiveness and dominance, but its position on digital services taxes s

Infections rise in Tamil Nadu as a rudderless State government struggles to contain new COVID cases, while Puducherry fears a lockdown disrupting tour

Entrepreneurs Subroto and Susmita Bagchi pledge to donate a total of Rs. 340 crore towards the establishment of a world-class cancer hospital and pall