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In this image made from a video, Taiwans Health Minister Chen Shih-chung speaks of the countrys successful model in combating COVID-19 at a press conference in Taipei, Taiwan Wednesday, May 6, 2020. Taiwan. The minister, a doctor and former director of Taipei Medical University, held daily briefings, keeping the public informed and aware. With an approval rating of 91%, he has become the countrys most popular politician, even more than President Tsai ing-wen. (Photo | AP)

Taiwan has just 65 active, 440 total COVID-19 cases despite proximity...

The country's speedy, efficient and expert-led response, despite no WHO membership, has become a model to combat the...

13 May 2020 10:44 PM IST

Sir Ronald Ross

Hyderabad's Ronald Ross: Remembered but also forgotten

Later, in 1898, in Kolkata, Dr Ross worked out the life history of the malaria parasite in birds

13 May 2020 6:10 PM IST

Migrant workers along with their family members walk to their villages, due to no means of transport, during the nationwide lockdown, near Anand Vihar railway station in New Delhi (PTI)

Anand K Sahay: India's working class as Little Red Riding Hood

Their lordships have evidently missed a trick or two in their officious lives

12 May 2020 5:42 PM IST

Sloganeering like Make in India sound hollow in the light of the fact that we could not develop a single Covid-19 testing kit and found a lame excuse in the faulty Chinese stuff.

India After Covid-19: Let us be a science-driven nation

Countries that invest in science and technology shall rule the new world order

10 May 2020 10:49 PM IST

Thick smoke emanates from the LG Polymers factory at Venkatapuram in Visakhapatnam on Thursday. At least 11 persons were killed in the industrial accident. (DC Photo: P Narasimha Murthy)

What makes Vizag the hazardous industry capital of India? Bribes!

There have been no less than 40 industrial mishaps in and around Visakhapatnam in the past six years, claiming at least...

8 May 2020 12:16 PM IST

Time to take a coffee break from work at home.

Confessions from corona containment

Sometimes it takes a deadly pandemic to show you the good, bad and ugly side of life

6 May 2020 7:08 AM IST

Representational image (PTI)

The great unwashed

A major portion of India's migrant population is the underprivileged migrant labour who do distress migration in search...

5 May 2020 8:26 PM IST

A staff member wearing a face shield gestures at a long-distance bus station in Wuhan in Chinas central Hubei. AFP Photo

Suing China: Wishful thinking or could it be a dream come true?

Many countries in the world feel that China deliberately lied and tried its best to coverup the whole issue

5 May 2020 7:31 PM IST

Lage rehna hai: What my chosen father Irrfan Khan taught me

Lage rehna hai: What my chosen father Irrfan Khan taught me

Zeeshan Hasan Akhtar writes about what Irfan Khan meant to him

2 May 2020 6:18 PM IST

Employees are back at work at the construction site of the Wuhan Greenland Center, a 636-m high skyscraper in Wuhan in Chinas central Hubei province. (AFP)

Tackling future Covids: Three things India needs to learn from China

We have an excellent disaster preparedness machinery. But it's time to have a disease preparedness system as well.

30 April 2020 11:57 PM IST

Telangana needs to regain its tax-earning capacities in the post-lockdown period. (DC Photo)

Telangana makes a departure on lockdown strategy

The state would do well to ease its lockdown restrictions in two phases

30 April 2020 11:16 PM IST

A worker cover his face with a mask as he takes a nap outside a closed shop in a market in New Delhi. Thousands of workers in major Indian cities have lost their jobs due to the shutdown imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus. (DC Photo; Pritam Bandyopadhyay)Photograph......Pritam Bandyopadhyay

The shutdown is a device to shut out the Dalits

All those who have been nudged to the margins by the Covid-19 lockdown are invariably Dalit

29 April 2020 12:36 AM IST