Are Internet platforms adversely affecting children in India
BY VINIT GOENKA
With the extensive proliferation of online content, free wi-fi across many locations, dirt-cheap data plans on mobile, broadband and fibre optic...
Migrant’s homecoming: Here’s why it is a logistical migraine
BY ANINDYA BANERJEE
New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) Within days of Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing a sudden countrywide 21-day lockdown to contain the spread of...
PM extends lockdown till May 3, announces seven steps
After Janata Curfew, Lakshmana Rekha, now Saptapadi
By J.V. Lakshmana Rao
After a “Janata Curfew” and Social Distancing on March 22, and drawing a 21-day-long “Lakshmana...
Kindness of strangers in the time of pandemic
BY SUKANT DEEPAK
Chandigarh, April 11 (IANS) Though it has just been been 10 days that Aakriti Sachdev from Panchkula started making food packets...
The Press, the President and the Coronavirus
By Shivaji Sengupta
A dear friend of mine, Harshad Sakaria, told me over the phone that he reads so many different reports on Coronavirus, stating...
Lockdown hard on kids with special needs
BY SFOORTI MISHRA
New Delhi, (IANS) With schools, hospitals and therapy centres closed during the 21-day nationwide lockdown in India, everyone is facing challenges...
The big bang RBI stimulus
BY TAPONEEL MUKHERJEE
The slew of announcements by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to lower the repo rate, reverse repo rate, cash reserve...
How Indian SMBs are adopting new work culture amid lockdown
BY GOKUL BHAGABATI
New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) With the 21-day lockdown period beginning from Wednesday, there is no choice for most companies in...
Coronavirus: Culture of Politics or the Politics of Culture?
By Shivaji Sengupta
We are in the grip of the worst pandemic since America was savaged by the Spanish Flu of 1918, over a hundred...
“Flatten the Curve” Flattens the Economy…What Next?
By Raj G. Asava
There is no question, flattening the curve is the need of the day. It is a critically important action on the...