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Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with Central ministers via video conference to ensure social distancing, on 6 April | PIB | Twitter

Don’t just blame the virus. Modi govt needs to push more reforms to revive Indian economy

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Demonstrators kneel and raise their fists during a protest against police brutality and the death of George Floyd, on June 2, 2020 in Washington, DC. | Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images | Bloomberg

Black Lives Matter protests can work if they use Gandhian tactics and stay peaceful

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announcing details of the Modi govt's Rs 20 lakh crore economic package Wednesday | Photo: ANI

Modi govt has got it right. India doesn’t need a bigger stimulus

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PM Modi's Covid-19 address on 14 April. Photo | YouTube

Modi’s stimulus speech adds to a sense of uncertainty. And that kills investment

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A pedestrian crosses a nearly empty street in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, US | Bloomberg

From India to the US, coronavirus is straining the concept of federalism

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Migrant workers (representational image) | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint

Covid-19 has given developing countries a great chance to care for their migrant workers

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A customer uses an automated teller machine (ATM) at a State Bank of India Ltd. (SBI) branch. | Photographer: Karen Dias | Bloomberg

Why Indian banks could make the Covid-19 economic crisis only worse

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The nationwide lockdown announced by the Modi government has triggered mass migration in India | Bloomberg

Modi emerged from poverty but his govt is blind to the poor

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi | PTI

For Modi, the 21-day shutdown is an unprecedented gamble

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Bernie Sanders’s ‘Green New Deal’ won’t help reduce India’s carbon emissions

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On Camera

Opinion

Uyghur Muslim women in the Grand Bazaar in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China

TV anchors outrage over Uyghurs in China, but stay quiet about Indian Muslims

Kairvy Grewal -
After cheering the ban on Chinese apps, the latest coping mechanism of Indian TV news seems to be focusing on the plight of the Uyghur Muslims in China.
A man watches a television news report on the confrontation between Indian and Pakistani fighter jets in an electronics store in New Delhi

TV debates can improve only when party spokespersons are hired differently

File photo | Adrima Joshua | Twitter/@Agrimonious

Agrima Joshua is Everywoman on social media with a view. We know why she apologised

Economy

Pedestrians pass in front of the Nasdaq MarketSite in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, US (representational image) | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

The next 3 months will reveal how badly global economy has been hit by coronavirus

Peter R. Orszag -
Next 3 months stand to reveal the underlying economic pain more vividly than past 3 months as massive fiscal assistance from govts is soon going to fade.

Defence

A road bridge built by India between Durbuk and Daulat Beg Oldi in eastern Ladakh (representational image) | Photo: ANI

India, China to hold Corps Commander-level talks on 14 July at Chushul

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The talks will focus mainly on the second phase of disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), said the Indian Army officials.

National Interest

Illustration by Soham Sen | ThePrint

Uttar Pradesh is India’s broken heartland, break it into 4 or 5 states

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Uttar Pradesh, our largest state by population and most powerful, is also the worst governed. A state with 1-in-6 Indians has no hope because of its size.
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