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The facade cracks for China

Harsh V. Pant Kalpit A. Mankikar

The year 2020 has put on display the many defects in the country’s growing might

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U.S. President Donald Trump talks on a phone call with the leaders of Sudan and Israel, as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, left, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, and National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, applaud in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on October 23, 2020.

A costly deal for Sudan

Garimella Subramaniam

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The fallout of keying in the wrong labour codes

R. Nagaraj As the Wistron case shows, hoodwinking industrial workers is economically suicidal and damaging to India

Are children being introduced to coding too early in life?

Mandira Moddie Only if children are kept busy in different ways can problem solving and other skills be honed

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A costly deal for Sudan

The facade cracks for China

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Towards an effective vaccination distribution policy

The fallout of keying in the wrong labour codes

Are children being introduced to coding too early in life?

Tackling an existential crisis

News from this day, that age

Choosing snippets from the archives is fun, instructive and also tedious

MGR’s mojo, time tested and enduring

In the run-up to the Tamil Nadu elections, his name and legacy still cast their spell on voters and political claimants

The ground is shifting below Trinamool Congress’ feet

Why the BJP seems to be the default beneficiary in the coming election

No sole spokesperson for Muslims

Asaduddin Owaisi has emerged as a prominent Muslim political leader but he is no Jinnah

An anti-science lawsuit

Instead of pursuing their case against Sci-Hub, publishers should work with the government to make research accessible

The tightrope between production, industrial peace

The Wistron incident is an example of how exploitative labour practices could accompany businesses moving to India

Playing a game of brinkmanship in Nepal

K.P. Sharma Oli’s decision to dissolve Parliament without any basis is likely to turn the clock back

Mayhem in Nigeria

Two decades since the return to democracy, Nigeria must do more to uphold the rule of law

Five years since Paris, an opportunity to build back better

We owe it to the next generation who will have to bear the burden of climate change and pay off the debt of the recovery

Put the farm laws on hold, uphold farmers’ rights

The small and marginal farm sector, especially, faces a threat and the government needs to ensure wide consultations

Lessons from Monash

The experiences of other countries could offer ideas to India as it considers establishing international branch campuses

The greatness of Srinivasa Ramanujan

His works were diverse, original and transcended time; and all this while he surmounted many odds

Humans are still core to Digital India

Intermediaries who deliver last mile governance establish trust between governments and citizens

Key steps to get this spectrum auction right

The government must avoid the 2016 situation, of a swathe of unsold spectrum block; reserve prices must be revisited

Losing the plot on women’s safety

The Maharashtra government’s Shakti Act takes a myopic view of the problem of sexual violence

Beyond just persuasion

The protesting farmers need sincerity and accountability from the Centre, not edification

Stopping the slide of health care in India

Policymakers need to focus on the larger picture with steps being taken to reclaim the space under public care

The mystery disease of Eluru

With over 600 people being hospitalised after contracting a sudden, unknown illness and one dead, confusion and fear have prevailed in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, this month. Appaji Reddem reports on the outbreak, the response and the possible causes

Chalking out the Congress’s enduring revival

Even at its nadir, the party is still politically relevant and its revival is linked to how the organisation is rebuilt

A concert is more than just music

COVID-19 has taken away all the finer aspects of the music season

Converting waste to energy

The new plant at Bidadi has several advantages but also some operational challenges

What challenges do online classes pose?

Access, teaching skills and assessment are all challenging but there are ways they can be met

Putting food at the centre of India’s nutrition agenda

Reducing the burden of child undernutrition needs a policy goal — providing affordable access to quality food items

The long road to food security

Despite being self-sufficient in agricultural production, India’s hunger levels are alarming

The many challenges for WTO

The next Director-General of the organisation will have to navigate through a slew of thorny issues

A million reasons to march

The farmers’ movement is now a battle not just for the peasantry, but also for justice and dignity

Privacy, a fundamental right the state must protect

An open and transparent government that also respects every citizen’s right to privacy is not a contradiction

A test for Ghana

For the second time in recent times, a candidate has challenged the outcome of a closely contested poll

Why Jawaharlal Nehru University matters

It is a lively national space, a microcosm of India with all its beauty and warts

Law and disorder

Several inadequacies in the justice delivery system lie hidden as disproportionate attention is given to the Supreme Court

From a digital India to a digital Bharat

The PM-WANI project seems to fit within the framework of an evolving decentralised concept to bridge the e-divide

India needs to rethink its nutrition agenda

Poor nutritional outcomes in NFHS-5 show that a piecemeal approach does not work

Tax policy in trying times

The events of the pandemic show how it is the need of the hour to modernise India’s archaic tax laws

Divided States of America

Support for Trump’s fabricated claims depicts anxiety about country’s changing ‘colour’

Convergence of agrarian discontent in South Asia

With protests becoming catalysts for anti-authoritarian struggle, the air is ripe for new visions of rural emancipation

Hazardous ideas for the Himalayas

By planning hydropower projects, India and China are placing the region at great risk

Innovations for cleaner air

Monitoring air pollution alone isn’t enough; India needs context-specific solutions to tackle the problem

A sector that needs to be nursed back to health

Nursing education in India suffers poor quality of training, inequitable distribution, and non-standardised practices

Pragmatic family arrangement, a new business chapter

The memorandum of family arrangement TVS announced gives it a chance to remain as an entity and seek new vistas

Are IT project managers facing an existential crisis?

If they become consultants for clients as well as learn coding, they will be valuable

Iran’s calculated risk

Iran is enhancing its nuclear programme, which can be reversed if talks with the U.S. are revived

The short shelf life of a news peg

For a news reporter, too much verification can sometimes be unhelpful

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