Edits & Columns

Some sense on vaccines, need more for it to work

Clearing global vaccines is a good idea, but unlikely to work unless free-market pricing, and exports, are allowed

Indian Railways building modern engineering marvels! New bridges to be India’s heritage of the future

The bridges the Railways is building are modern engineering marvels. Decades from now, they will serve as the Railways’ heritage

India must step up genome sequencing efforts

If highy infective variants are behind the second wave, reporting on this can help push people to adopt Covid-safe behaviour

Reforming India’s deposit insurance scheme

Risk-sensitive pricing can go hand-in-hand with the increase in the insured deposit coverage limits bringing India in line with its emerging market peers

Building capacity critical: In many cities, like Delhi, jumbo facilities need restarting

Study shows tweaking gut bacteria through food supplements could help fight child malnutrition

Science reports that “in a head-to-head comparison against a leading treatment for malnutrition, a new supplement designed to promote helpful gut bacteria led to signs of improved growth and more we

Indian economy: Firing on all cylinders

Can India take its economic growth to double digits in 2021-22?

Bracing for impact: Strategically battling the second wave of infections

Our immunisation drive aims to achieve herd immunity, and until we reach that stage, we cannot afford to let our guard down in this fight. The next 4-6 weeks will be pivotal in India’s battle agains

Why G-SAP 1.0 is a bold move by RBI

The government, with its massive borrowing programme, can breathe a sigh of relief as long-term borrowing costs come down

Embittered by graft, Kenyans are appealing to the IMF to take back its decision to lend to their government

This is perhaps ‘direct democracy’ that governments would dread. Kenyans don’t want the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to lend to their government.

The curious case of VIPIT: Studies needed to identify susceptibility markers, diagnostic tests, treatments

Further studies will be needed to identify susceptibility markers, early diagnostic tests and effective treatments

Test-track-treat is good, vaccination is even better

PM Modi asking CMs to focus on conventional means to control Covid vital, but vaccine supply needs to be hiked

Understanding the four Vs of operations management – volume, variety, variation and visibility

Organisations that deliver the highest quality of service or products are the ones that attract the most customers. Prominence is, therefore, important. But ability is also important.

Dealing with giant vessels: Fees on extremely large vessels can be exponentially hiked

The trend towards huge container vessels actually started about 15 years ago when the Emma Maersk, the first of these vessels, was pulled from the Danish shipyard, in which it was built, by five tugs

Towards better urban growth: 15th Finance Commission has duly recognised role of urbanisation in development

"This quantum jump in allocation will go a long way in minimising gaps (needing eight time increase in per capita municipal expenditure by 2030"

Weak Shot: With protection against Covid-19 from Chinese vaccines being poor, will China pivot towards foreign vaccines?

The bigger problem for China is perhaps the fact that it has not yet approved any foreign vaccine, which means many in its population who have been vaccinated could still be at risk.

Immunise against doubt: Messaging on AstraZeneca safety needs to be much clearer

The messaging on the safety of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine needs to get a lot more clear if nations that have approved it for use—India is using it, licensed to SII as Covishield—are to effec

Lockdown, migrants and misery: Learn from the first wave

The second wave brings with it the threat of lockdowns; the govt must ensure portability of welfare schemes to avoid the misery of last year’s lockdown

Modi’s vaccine plans may unravel if he doesn’t make up with manufacturers

If the vaccination effort was a one-time deal, perhaps it wouldn’t matter, even though it speaks poorly of the business environment in the country.

Inside Track: Amit Shah and his ‘wry sense of humour’

And when Shah finally got the ticket in 2019, he conclusively demonstrated that he was certainly not politically irrelevant.

The ghost of Rafale appears

They trust the institutions that they have installed to tackle these challenges including Parliament/Legislature, the judiciary, the free media, the CAG and the Opposition political parties.

IPL in times of coronavirus: New season, tougher challenges

The IPL is necessary for the nourishment of India's cricket economy. It must go along trouble-free

Data drive: Fighting the second wave

As the current vaccination rate is 3.4 million a day, the existing 43 million stocks of doses will last around 12 days.

Centre, states must tap into green bonds

It would be prudent to start with expenditure items that have a clear and strong link to central and state climate-action plans

China’s doublespeak on vaccine nationalism

Xi Jinping talks about opposing vaccine nationalism while China uses its vaccines to arm-twist nations

Good start to fixing PSUs

Supplement private sector PESB head with other measures

Two steps back on cleaner power

Extending emission-compliance deadline for thermal power plants & low default-fines go against India’s green action vision