What “benefits” does the Central Vista Project bring to India’s people? What is to be gained by massive statues built on land or sea?

The State’s fatality rate has not fallen and there is concern over unaccounted COVID deaths.

Even as the Maharashtra government prepares to announce the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, it is well aware of the dilemma ahead.

The Tamil Nadu government upgrades the appointments of those affected by police violence in Thoothukudi during the anti-Sterlite protests three years

There are no signs that the number of infections in Goa is decreasing, and the State’s infrastructure, including its health facilities, cannot cope wi

The falling number of active cases and test positivity ratio offer a glimmer of hope, but the rising number of daily deaths is a source of worry.

In Karnataka, the daily death count remains high and rural areas experience a surge even as the overall case numbers decline.

As hospitals continue to be overwhelmed and doctors say that it is still too early to claim that Telangana is past the second wave of COVID, the numbe

Blatant violation of COVID-19 related norms in the urban centres and the pandemic’s rapid spread to the rural areas force the new government to pull o

Although the infection curve shows signs of flattening, the government ramps up measures to involve the people at every level in combating the pandemi

As West Bengal continued to struggle with the COVID crisis and the death count showed no sign of coming down, the very severe cyclonic storm Yaas brou

The daily death toll due to COVID-19 is rising in the Jammu area, but the administration of the Union Territory seems to be preoccupied more with cont

Odisha continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic with its focus on villages, where infections were found to be spreading.

As western Uttar Pradesh counts its dead, Shamli tells a story of how ill-timed local elections turned into a COVID-19 superspreader event. The admini

Sunderlal Bahuguna’s (1927-2021) primary identity is of a crusader to save the Himalayan environment and people, but he also inspired generations of e

Under-reporting of COVID deaths marks the pandemic situation in Uttar Pradesh.

Even as questions are being asked in India about the money the Prime Minister and various Chief Ministers collected in the name of COVID relief, in th

Even as two reports on the impact of the pandemic on people with disabilities point out cracks in the system, disability rights advocates complain abo

Elected BJP representatives find novel ways to promote fake cures for the coronavirus infection.

A report by trade union organisations highlights the problems the poor people face in Bengaluru because of the pandemic and the lockdown.

The incidence of black fungus, the fatal opportunistic infection, underscores the need for significant public health investment in disease control and

Rattled by the recent losses in elections to three State Assemblies and Uttar Pradesh’s local bodies, the RSS top brass takes stock of the situation t

Interview with Dr Satyajit Rath, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.

Interview with Dr Hemanth Nandigala, managing director, Virchow Biotech Private Limited.

The Indian COVID-19 vaccine story is a string of missteps based on the Modi government’s exaggerated claims of exceptionalism, grounded in voodoo noti

The government seems to be showing some optimism that the second wave is waning, but the continuing upward graph of the death toll points to a differe

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resorts to military operations in Gaza with U.S. support to hold on to power and mow down Hamas as it is the only fo

Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip evokes unprecedented worldwide condemnation but right-wing regimes stand by it, while several Democratic leaders urg

While two official reports on the economic fallout of the second wave of COVID-19 in India suggest that it has been less severe than the first, the fa

This book is not a biography or even an account of what M.A. Jinnah the politician did or did not do. It is an attempt at historical reasoning by a po

Israel targets the defenceless population of Gaza on the direct orders of Benjamin Netanyahu, who is desperately trying to cling on to power. After a