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While there was a similar proposal was made last year, nothing seems to have taken off on the ground. The Centre and the states need to quickly work on this.

Rethink board exams: The risks to an unvaccinated student population are significant

It is highly unlikely that a large population of students can be safely vaccinated by July, and likely August, too.

May 25, 2021 07:00 IST

This is a sector that has attracted large sums of capital, and will continue to do so given it is critical for the environment. But this capital should be respected.

States must not leave investors in the lurch: Reneging on PPAs/reauctioning will hurt capital invested in renewables

It is important that discoms close out PPAs because, thanks to the pandemic, construction of both solar and wind power…

May 25, 2021 06:45 IST

Many of us walk around our homes with a phone and laptop in hand, searching for strong signal.

Telecom Talk: India needs a new metric to judge network quality

Overall network speed worked when video-streaming was not as ubiquitous, and not as central to the right to work and…

May 25, 2021 06:20 IST

The government should realise Patra’s post is public —that can be viewed by each of Twitter’s 1.8 crore users—and that the platform has a responsibility to flag disputed content based on the facts available at the time.

In a twist over a tweet: Asking Twitter to drop manipulated media tag problematic

The flagging has not been done at random but is within the scope of a specific policy Twitter has in…

May 24, 2021 06:30 IST

Covid-19: After vaccine maitri, get vaccine diplomacy right

The Centre should contract more vaccines from global vaccine-makers and distribute these to the states

May 24, 2021 06:15 IST

RBI’s implicit assumption appears to be that the demand for loans will be for brownfield projects only.

Assessing RBI’s on-tap liquidity scheme

The tenor of loans is three years for the banks, but there are no such restrictions for on-lending. This could…

May 24, 2021 06:00 IST

From Plate to Plough: Containing a rural Covid spread

We need to first convince people in rural Areas about vaccination, and simultaneously upgrade the health infrastructure, especially primary health…

May 24, 2021 05:45 IST

The RP in turn, is calculated taking into account efficiency norms such as capacity utilisation, energy consumption, capital related charges (CRC), other fixed cost, delivered cost of gas and other inputs, etc.

Making urea that is not needed: New Talcher urea project will further worsen the unsustainable fertiliser subsidy burden

The new urea project at Talcher will worsen the already unsustainable fertiliser subsidy burden as retention price at this project…

May 24, 2021 05:30 IST

India’s rank in the Hunger Index stood at 94 (out of 107) in 2020.

Across the Aisle: One pandemic, many casualties, writes P Chidambaram

The only thing that is certain is that everything about coronavirus is uncertain and unpredictable. It has overwhelmed many governments.

May 23, 2021 06:00 IST

And yet, the team of the season here would fall back on a 4-4-2 diamond, with a defensive midfielder at the base of it and a No. 10 at the tip, for that’s the best way to accommodate all the standout performers in the playing XI.

The Best XI: Premier League’s team of the season has a Manchester overload

In just 24 appearances, Kevin de Bruyne had 11 assists and five goals. He would be the first name on…

May 23, 2021 05:45 IST

Nuanced, but timely: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says need for collective action rather than individual leadership

By referring to RSS founder K B Hedgewar’s heroic role during the plague epidemic, Bhagwat hinted that the BJP had…

May 23, 2021 05:30 IST

Under the circumstances, there can be a case for allowing more restructuring of small- and mid-sized business units with exposures of upto Rs 50 crore.

Allow banks wider recast of loans

The second wave has hit small businesses hard; permit recast of loans of upto Rs 50 crore, while classiying the…

May 21, 2021 06:45 IST

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