No China-containment plan can work till GDP booms; from defence expenditure to battling Covid, 24×7 reforms to boost growth critical
Delhi lost valuable time in testing, tracing & readying new beds; with the Centre now in, vital to get it…
Industry will have to offer facilities like housing for workers, govt too should focus more on pension/old-age benefits.
The structuring of PM-Cares has pointers to the path PM Modi needs to take, to free government decision-making.
There is some confusion over what Delhi’s ‘positivity’ rate is since there are two sets of data on the number…
The government has called several private testing laboratories and told them that they need to pull back on their testing…
Rubbishing Trump’s anti-Twitter stance is easy, but social media is inherently biased, and fixing that is going to be tough.
Even Mumbai is facing an uphill task & it is not clear others have created even a fraction of the…
It is short of hospital beds, but better planning—and good forecasting—would prevent the panic being seen today
The stimulus/reforms package has disappointed most, but the real issue is how far prime minister Modi is willing to make…
Prime minister Narendra Modi’s Rs 20 lakh crore package is not just massive, it signals a sea-change in the way…
New rules on testing, quarantining, etc. all suggest ad-hoc level of planning; will fall apart when COVID-19 cases go into…
In an unprecedented crisis, you would expect them to take full responsibility for lakhs of poor; as they did in…
Even supporting the poor—whose numbers will double—can cost Rs 65,000-130,000 crore per month
Likely extension of the lockdown is a bad idea; the PM and the CMs got trapped in flattening-the-curve rhetoric
The lockdowns were critical, but the limited opening up has been marred with confusion; that must be sorted out.
Coronavirus spreading in any state has an all-India implication.
If India is to be more vigilant with Chinese investors, it must carve out no-go areas; without such rules, it…
