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Being a Good Covid-19 Citizen

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” —John F Kennedy, former US President On April 6, 2020, the Supreme Court invoked its extraordinary constitut...

Cost of Health

There was much confusion and angst over an April 8 order of the Supreme Court asking labs, be it approved government ones or private ones, to make tests for Covid-19 free. This followed a writ petiti...

Bhilwara Burns Bright

It is a strange coincidence that Bhilwara, the Rajasthan district that has become a shining example in fighting Covid-19, followed the pattern used by two Communist countries—China and Vietnam. ...

Armed Forces: All Hands On Deck

The Covid-19 pandemic took four months to affect one million people worldwide; but in 12 days, the figures doubled. It is clear that the world is in for a long haul in its fight to bring it under con...

Stay Home Stay Safe! Not if you ZOOM

Over the past few weeks, as various threats from using the US based video conferencing app surfaced, many private firms and governments have warned people against the app. On Thursday, the govern...

Force Majeure takes centrestage during Covid-19

While the world is crippled by the coronavirus outbreak, an important concern among different industrial sectors is the force majeure clause and whether it will excuse parties who are otherwise bound ...

Nations Offer Strategic Help to Combat Covid-19

World leaders and health authorities are scrambling to get their act together to fight the deadly Covid-19 pandemic which has spared neither rich, industrialised western powers nor developing countrie...

Covid-19: Testing Times

Hours after having advised “rapid antibody tests” in “hotspot areas” in an interim advisory, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) left the decision to states and put out a list of such tests ...

Donald Trump: A Wartime President?

Most of America is locked down or ordered to stay at home to suppress the Covid-10 pandemic. Traffic has disappeared and only a cyclist intrudes now and then to demonstrate that people are still alive...

The Unseen Costs of Lockdown

On March 11, WHO declared Covid-19 a global pandemic—an indication of its possible contagion. This created global pandemonium. As a result, financial markets crashed, production of goods and services ...

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