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Jostling for rations in the Moghalpura locality of Hyderabad. How will the state governments manage to fight the Covid-19 pandemic if the Union government does not release funds to the states? (DC Photo: Deepak Deshpande)Opinion
DC Edit: New Delhi must loosen the purse strings

The Union government must step in now and stop the states from slipping into a vicious cycle

2 April 2020 11:42 AM IST

People living in the streets sit in line to receive food served by the Delhi government at a temporary shelter in the Nizamuddin area. The nationwide lockdown has thrown thousands of workers out of jobs and left them without access to food. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)Opinion
DC Edit: Media freedom is vital as India battles Covid-19

For a government that hardly ever acts against the WhatsApp rumour mill, it's a bit disingenuous to point a fake news...

2 April 2020 11:19 AM IST

Sri Lankas President-elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa waves at supporters as he leaves the election commission office in Colombo on Sunday. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
A political pardon

Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa's decision to pardon the solider is not only deeply disappointing but also...

1 April 2020 9:57 AM IST

New Delhi: Security personnel stand guard at LNJP hospital as a precaution in the wake of coronavirus pandemic during a nationwide lockdown, in New Delhi. PTI PhotoOpinion
More vigilance needed to keep Covid19 at bay

While the Talbighi incident is a wake-up call on the consequences of slackness in the face of a health emergency

1 April 2020 9:36 AM IST

Government doctors sit inside a bus to go to the districts to serve as reinforcements during the nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Kolkata on March 27, 2020. (Photo by Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP)Opinion
DC Edit: Protect the doctors

Every medical professional is precious for India

31 March 2020 8:10 AM IST

Prime minister Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses the nation on the coronavirus pandemic on March 24, 2020. (PTI Photo)Opinion
DC Edit: PM promotes himself, but opposition rises to the occasion

The outcomes of ad hoc decisions could have been anticipated

31 March 2020 6:31 AM IST

A statue of a discus thrower stands opposite Athens Panathenaic stadium or Kalimarmaro, where the first modern Olympic Games began, in Athens, one day after the historic decision to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Japan on March 25 started the unprecedented task of reorganising the Tokyo Olympics after the historic decision to postpone the worlds biggest sporting event due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that has locked down one third of the planet. (AFP)Opinion
DC Edit: Olympics makes the sacrifice

There can be no winner in this battle against Covid-19, only survivors

26 March 2020 6:53 PM IST

A homeless woman sleeps on a deserted platform of the Lokmanya Tilak train terminus in Mumbai. (File photo: AP)Opinion
DC Edit: Centre must plan for Lakshman Rekha

The Lakshman Rekha poses no hazard to those who have an assured income but what about the 50 crore daily-wage earners?

26 March 2020 6:33 PM IST

The stock market has crashed 35 per cent since the coronavirus scare began.Opinion
DC Edit: Suspend equity market for now

Foreign investors are dumping Indian stocks every day as if there is no future

24 March 2020 6:59 AM IST

People clap and clang utensils as a gesture to show gratitude to the medical practitioners fighting the coronavirus in Bikaner, Rajasthan on March 22, 2020. PM Modi proposed a Janta curfew between 7 am and 9 pm as part of social distancing to check the spread of the deadly virus. (PTI)Opinion
DC Edit: Playing to the gallery amid a pandemic

Was this yet another excuse to reshape India into an obedient population?

24 March 2020 6:31 AM IST

The mother of the victim in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case reacts after four men convicted of the crime were executed inside Tihar jail in New Delhi March 20, 2020. Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) were executed at 5.30 am for the assault in an empty moving bus on the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern who came to be known as Nirbhaya. (PTI)Opinion
DC Edit: Nirbhaya hangings are not the end of women-'s -'unsafety-'

Practices that rob Indian women of their agency remain alive and well

21 March 2020 12:21 AM IST

A man watches prime minister Narendra Modis televised speech about the COVID-19 situation on his mobile phone in Guwahati on March 19, 2020. (AP)Opinion
DC Edit: Shot off the citizen’s shoulder, PM’s salvo finds the...

When Modi appeals, citizens listen, as they did when they stood patiently in queues outside ATMs

21 March 2020 12:03 AM IST

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