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Hydroxychloroquine has suddenly emerged into the strategy to tackle the current Covid-19 pandemic. It is yet unproven in scientific studies but Dr Donald Trump is sure its the cure. (AP)Opinion
DC Edit: And the Nobel Prize for medicine men goes to...

Whoever gets the Prize for peace, no strongman will get it for medicine or economics

10 April 2020 6:09 PM IST

A woman reacts to a swab test being taken to check for Covid-19 infection in Ahmedabad on April 10, 2020. (AP)Opinion
DC Edit: The lockdown is fine, but step up the testing

The examples of Bhilwara and Kerala indicate that aggressive testing is the key to defeating the coronavirus

10 April 2020 5:07 PM IST

Sonia GandhiOpinion
DC Edit: Sonia Gandhi's suggestions are welcome but not bold enough

Congress president recommends austerity when in fact the government needs to spend more not less

9 April 2020 2:15 AM IST

Hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin, which are being considered by some for treating COVID-19, may increase the risk for dangerous abnormal heart rhythms. (Representative Image)Opinion
DC Edit: No we didn't cave in to US threats; we were humanitarian

Indo-US strategic ties are based on much more than the optics of one drug deal

9 April 2020 1:38 AM IST

Workers transport medical supplies to a hospital in New Delhi on April 8, 2020. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)Opinion
DC Edit: Stop sending messages, send Covid kits

The government's decision to suspend the MPLAD scheme and cut MPs' salaries is rich in symbolism and poor in substance

8 April 2020 8:33 PM IST

Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao argued for extending the lockdown by at least two more weeks.Opinion
DC Edit: Yes, a lockdown for as long as it takes

Till there are no new Covid-19 cases, India must stay at home

8 April 2020 5:54 PM IST

Even if it is Covid-19 thats driving him towards a bipartisan approach, some good would have come even out of catastropheOpinion
DC Edit: Meet PM Narendra Modi, suddenly a consensus builder

Even if it is Covid-19 that's driving him towards a bipartisan approach, some good would have come even out of...

7 April 2020 3:10 AM IST

People light candles and switch on torches as instructed by prime minister Narendra Modi at 9 pm on Sunday, April 5, 2020 to mark the countrys fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. (AP)Opinion
DC Edit: PM's mini-Diwali not just premature, but dangerously...

While Indians were lighting lamps, China registered an uptick in Covid-19 positive cases, after a period of declining...

7 April 2020 2:46 AM IST

Why is India so ambivalent about its doctors at a time like this? (AFP)Opinion
DC Edit: Does India deserve its doctors?

One week we clang cymbals for them; the next week we kick and chase them away

4 April 2020 9:18 PM IST

Volunteers of the Ramakrishna Mission set up a soup kitchen to feed displaced workers during the ongoing nationwide lockdown to arrest the spread of the coronavirus in New the coronavirus outbreak, near Ramakrishna Mission in New Delhi on Friday,April 03,2020. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)Opinion
DC Edit: New Delhi must heed the advice of the states

Stop hallucinating that you can win this war with the states so fiscally hamstrung

4 April 2020 7:02 PM IST

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Missing Wimbledon

When US Open venue is lending some of its courts to make a Covid19 field hospital, it would be inappropriate to consider...

3 April 2020 11:13 AM IST

Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard near a temporary checkpoint during lockdown in Srinagar. AP PhotoOpinion
J&K rues Centre's nod to jobs for outsiders

All political parties in J&K, including the Apni Party, have expressed themselves strongly against the new order

3 April 2020 10:53 AM IST

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