With a sudden spike in infections straining the State’s public health infrastructure, the government is ramping up ICU/bed capacity and other resource

As the north-eastern States struggle to cope with the alarming rise in cases in the second wave of COVID-19, critical gaps in public health infrastruc

The complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan before September 11 is turning out to be a complicated affair amid fears of Taliban supremacy

Amid the rising number of deaths, the new government pulls out all the stops to meet medical needs such as beds, oxygen and medicines.

Sumitra Bhave’s (1943-2021) Marathi films were important signposts for expressing popular disquiet in a strikingly restrained language.

The prolonged conflict and ceasefire violations along the Line of Control have left several families in the border villages scarred for life, and help

Bengaluru and several districts reel under the rising caseload and casualties even as a young MP in a brash act attempts to communalise a so-called be

The recent petitions seeking the conversion of the Shahi Idgah mosque at Mathura and the Gyanwapi mosque at Varanasi are in line with the revanchist a

In Andhra Pradesh, hospitals are running out of beds and medical oxygen supplies, health workers are under tremendous pressure, and vaccines are extre

The State administration, which was not prepared for an alarming second wave, is focussed on getting its act together.

Telangana’s citizens have more than their fair share of woes: oxygen is unavailable, ICU/ventilator beds are hard to get, and crematoria and graveyard

Since May 4 more than 100 people have been dying of COVID daily in West Bengal as the government’s desperate attempts to improve infrastructure fail t

Although there appears to be a slight dip in the number of COVID-19 cases and in the positivity rate, neither the Centre nor the AAP government nor th

The Modi government’s Rs.20,000-crore Central Vista redevelopment project, work on which proceeds apace despite the COVID-19 pandemic, has come in for

The 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly election results demonstrate yet again that the vast majority of the voters are firmly behind the two major Dravidian par

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation makes efforts on a war footing to control COVID-19 spread with good results, but rural Maharashtra sees a rise

The Vijay Rupani government keeps the casualty figures down, maintaining that it only counted those who died of COVID and not those who succumbed to c

Notwithstanding the Central government’s push to promote “positivity” as the way out of the COVID crisis, the local body elections in the BJP’s bastio

The infection seems to be spreading by leaps and bounds into the hinterland, including those areas under the control of armed left-wing extremists. Th

Interview with Dr Mathew Varghese, public health expert and former director, St. Stephen’s Hospital, New Delhi.

Corpses floating in the Ganga, neglect of patients and low testing, and, above all, a crackdown on those who raise their voice—what is happening in Ut

As the COVID-19 variant that emerged in India last year spreads beyond its borders, the epicentre of the pandemic shifts from Latin America to South A

Interview with Irfan Engineer, director, Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism.

The Supreme Court taking suo motu cognisance of the COVID situation and the interventions of some High Courts regarding State governments’ response du

Interview with Satyajit Rath, immunologist and visiting faculty, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.

As Bihar’s tottering health care system struggles to cope, its political masters remain in isolation, leaving a hapless people to fend for themselves.

K.R. Gouri Amma (1919-2021), the only surviving member of the first democratically elected communist government in Kerala in 1957, was committed to th

Latest COVID-19 infection numbers indicate that the second wave may have hit a plateau, but despite the crisis being nowhere near the end, the Modi re

Some seven million people worldwide have died in the pandemic, almost double the official reports. More than 6.5 lakh Indians, not the 2.25 lakh repor

Interview with Dr Anurag Agrawal, Director, Institute of Genomic and Integrative Biology.

It is speculated that the world economy is set to experience another commodity price spike, or commodity “supercycle”, a tendency in which most commod

The shortage of vaccines and oxygen weakens the fight against COVID in Goa and the conflict between the Chief Minister and Health Minister does not he

Punjab sees COVID reach rural areas, which were largely unaffected by the first wave of the pandemic.