Climate change lessons from the Corona crisis
We clearly need to speed up research and testing of the various potential techniques for geo-engineering now Human beings respond well to a familiar crisis, especially if it is also imminent. They don’t do nearly as well when the threat is unfamiliar and still apparently quite distant. Consider our response to...
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Build cyber resilience
30 May 2020 | Ripu Bajwa -
The perfect blend
30 May 2020 | sourajit aiyer/ sandeep bhattacharya -
A pandemic of domestic abuse
29 May 2020 | Shruti Kapoor -
Saving lives and livelihoods
29 May 2020 | Kumardeep Banerjee -
Disastrous decade for data
29 May 2020 | Arjun Kumar / PC Mohanan -
Labour law reforms lifeline for employers
28 May 2020 | Kumar Chellappan -
Pandemic and PDS
28 May 2020 | Santosh Biswal / Uttam Chakraborty
Just tame the dragon
India has strengthened its position not only militarily but strategically as well. Therefore, it needs to stand firm and retain its control over the LAC In the ongoing battle for supremacy between the US and China, the latter let loose its “wolf-warriors”, signifying Beijing’s new and aggressive diplomatic response to countries...
Divided Opp still failing in its duty
The bottomline is that while the BJP has chalked out its agenda, the Opposition is still stumbling about Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be completing the first year of his second term in office on May 30. While critics are discussing the Modi Government’s report card, it makes one think about...
Karachi crash lessons
The fact that the plane crashed into a row of houses raises the fundamental dangers of highrise buildings near the airport There are two important factors in flying. Ponderable and imponderable. The man and machine interface constitutes the ponderable factor while the weather and unforeseen scenarios on the flight path are...
Rethink hospital SOPs
Once the lockdown ends, hospitals would have to work on a hybrid model to manage COVID and other diseases at the same time. And the time for operational planning is now Every once in a while we have a Black Swan event that changes our world forever. In December 2019, we...
Wrong medicine will not heal the economy
The only way to come out of the looming economic crisis is to have large-scale direct cash transfer at least for the next six months to boost demand. This in turn will generate jobs and increase consumption levels to bring the country out of the trough it is in now ...
Don’t bank on herd immunity
The COVID-19 is still an evolving virus whose behaviour cannot be predicted astutely at this stage With India slowly lifting the Coronavirus-necessitated lockdown in a graded manner, the number of people entering the economy, too, is rapidly climbing. Day two of lockdown 4.0 saw a 40 per cent spike in traffic...
Food for thought
Economic challenges brought on by COVID-19 and social distancing norms will complicate the issue of addressing severe malnutrition . Yet this is a problem that needs more attention now Nothing in our experience in healthcare had prepared us for what the Coronavirus pandemic had unleashed upon the country, particularly rural India....
