Former Chief Economic Adviser and ex-IMF member, Arvind Virmani feels that the current crisis is much graver than what India faced in 1991. In an interview with ET’s Prerna Katiyar he said that this crisis thus presents an opportunity to make bolder reforms. Here’s an Edited Excerpt: What are the […]
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A crisis tends to unite the people, with the government as the rallying point. That is how it should be. However, this does not obviate the fact that crises strengthen the party holding office and weakens the hold of the Opposition on the public imagination. In the context of the […]
(Eds: Adds more details) New Delhi, May 3 () Fighter jets and transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Sunday carried out fly-pasts over major cities and towns while military choppers showered petals on leading hospitals across the country as part of a mega exercise to express gratitude to […]
NEW DELHI: A fleet of military jets on Sunday carried out a spectacular fly-past over the national capital as part of a nationwide exercise to express gratitude to lakhs of doctors, paramedics, sanitation staff and other front-line workers engaged in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. The military jets, including Sukhoi-30 MKI, […]
April 28, 2020. It’s 4 am in India. It’s been over an hour since the millennials running covid19india. org last updated their dashboard tracking the pandemic outbreak in the country. Many of the site’s 90,000-odd Twitter followers are frantically tagging it in their tweets. Vijendra Rana sounds restless. “Uttarakhand update […]
GANDHINAGAR: Women representing over thousand families living in the slums of Bhilvaas in Sardarnagar of Ahmedabad defied curfew orders and the scorching sun to protest against lack of food supplies. “Not Corona, but hunger will kill us”, read placards held by hungry daily earners who gathered at a dusty plot […]
When the timeline of the pandemic of 2020 is complete, March 24 will stand out as a day to remember for everyone from sports fans to anthropologists to cola drinkers. Japan postponed the Summer Olympics that day. India put 1.3 billion people under lockdown. Inhabitants of the U.K. awoke to […]
NEW DELHI: India’s ten Himalayan states and union territories – from Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh to Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the North-East – have shown the way in keeping Covid-19 at bay by reducing its impact to the minimum, through rigorous social distancing practiced by the people and a […]
NEW DELHI: Featuring India’s most revered cricketers, the BCCI on Saturday uploaded a video to promote wearing masks in public places and help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, an initiative that has been hailed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The ‘Team Mask Force’ has been created to spread […]
New Delhi: From low cost portable ventilators to drones for sanitising, robots for delivery of food and medicines to special stethoscope for examining patients from a distance and a UV technology fitted trunk for sanitising currency and grocery items—several institutions and start ups have come up with innovations to strengthen […]