Opinion

Desperate WhatsApp messages have been doing the rounds, telling horror stories of children left to fend for themselves and advertising them for ‘adoption’.

Several smaller organisations, not affiliated to any party, that campaigned across the state against BJP say Bengal’s vote was not for TMC, but against the saffron party

The move, interestingly, has the blessings of both the official Congress party and the group of dissenters, also known as G-23.

Vaccinated people may get infection but not full disease symptoms. However, they may still be carriers for others.

A couple of months ago, when we analysed 600 Indian isolates (samples), we found 7,500 variants—when a virus is there, variants will be there every next day.

Vaccine efficacy is determined in randomised-control trials, in which volunteers receive either a vaccine or placebo.

If Manmohan Singh was being apolitical, he should've called out his party colleagues when they discredit the entire scientific community that approved Covaxin.

Farmers' protest is funded by middlemen who saw new laws undoing the system that helped them. Direct transfer changes control of cash flow, makes income transparent.

From the outset, the issue of the origins of the virus has been politically fraught and entwined with the acrimony between the US and China which intensified through 2020.

India has genuine concerns about China’s aggressive conduct towards her, bilaterally, regionally and internationally.

It would be a mistake to interpret the Left Front-ISF alliance as some kind of desperate political act.

Today, Kashmiri Muslims are believed to be religiously orthodox, conservative and radical, just like those in Afghanistan and Somalia.

Why China thinks it can alienate the US, Europe, Japan, and India without cost isn’t easily understandable. Its economy is inextricably linked to rest of the world.

The RSS-BJP combine was working for many years among the OBC-Dalit and tribal communities in Bengal and preparing them for their political assertion.

Agencies are needed that interpret the information to understand what percentage of power sources, habitations are likely to be affected in case of a flash flood or a flood in a location.

You realize these downgrades were inevitable the moment Narendra Modi gave his “na khaaonga na khaaney doonga” speech.