On 22 June, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar launched a campaign called ‘Six Crore Vaccinations in Six Months’ with a view to accelerate the vaccination process. The vaccination campaign is presently going on at a slow...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's unveiling of the state's population policy last Sunday coinciding with World Population Day (11 July 2021) came as the state's 'population bomb’. Though parts of the document were released...
Even as India is yet to get over the ravages of the second wave of covid-19, the possibility of a third wave of the deadly disease is looming large over the country. While it’s not...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's opening gambit on Kashmir by holding talks with Kashmiri leaders is a welcome gesture appreciated by all. It has been long overdue since August 5, 2019, when without any hint or...
It's almost 15 months since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India's first short lockdown at just four hours’ notice followed by a 21-day lockdown to beat Covid-19 Coronavirus that had burst upon the country. Millions...
The curse of child malnutrition shows no signs of relaxing its grip on India, in fact, quite the reverse. What's more, India has slipped two spots and ranks 117 on globally defined parameters like Sustainable...
The second wave of the coronavirus epidemic has caught the country off guard. If this was not the case, we would not have achieved the dubious distinction of topping the charts in the cases of...
India is among the few countries that have emerged the fastest-growing digital economies over the past few years characterised by 90 per cent growth in terms of digital adoption index between 2014 and 2017. With...
Over four-and-a-half years ago on a visit to Srinagar when Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was running the government in coalition with the BJP, I said to a student audience at Kashmir University's media studies department...
Recent announcement by Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal regarding his party’s decision to contest Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh kicked off a debate in the political circles in the...
