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With Christmas cancelled, Boris Johnson has once again found himself behind the Covid curve

While Johnson didn’t cause the virus, he's unable to project a sense of being in control. It’s never clear whether scientists, pollsters or his own backbenchers are guiding policy.

The BBC is struggling to survive the era of fake news

2019 survey saw 44% choose BBC as a single source for impartial news. But many British newspapers have been urging readers that BBC is a wasteful left-wing racket, extorting public.

How corruption cuts both ways in Russia’s surveillance state

The Russian state is both strong and corrupt, and it both hogs and leaks the data on which its strength increasingly rests.

Opposition MLAs face wrath of Indian voters after natural disasters, not ruling party’s: Study

Researchers from US and South Korea used data from 4,313 assembly constituencies over the years 1977-2007 to estimate the effects of droughts and heavy rainfall on Indian elections.

Why Prashant Kishor can’t plug the breach inside Mamata’s fort in West Bengal

After the departure of a dozen Trinamool Congress leaders, BJP general secretary in charge of West Bengal, Kailash Vijayvargiya, must be gloating.

Why Europe is finally waking up to Iran’s bad behaviour

Europeans’ tendency to soft-pedal Iran’s appalling human-rights record is being challenged by revelations that the regime has been kidnapping its critics from foreign soil.

BJP, media, MHA — slander on Muslims and Sikhs have a lot in common. Outcome will be too

As a Muslim, I am humbled that the Delhi court exonerated the much-maligned Tablighi Jamaat members, who were accused of intentionally spreading the coronavirus.

US wants India to ‘get off the fence’ over China. But forgets Cuban crisis lesson

Indian Army’s confrontation with Chinese PLA in Ladakh can hardly be called ‘sitting on the fence’. But that’s not good enough for US officials.

Modi is reaching out. AMU has a chance to take Muslims away from path of confrontation

Despite its characteristic boast, Aligarh could not chart a path for modernity and progress of Indian Muslims after Independence. PM Modi's centenary address is an opportunity.

Why most countries will struggle to give people the vaccines they’re acquiring

Supplies are limited — govt's need to jump-start the process to get shots into arms. In most cases, their capacity to distribute the vaccine is a constraint or simply doesn’t exist.

On Camera

PM’s 100-day agenda may have to jettison core issues for coalition partners

Matters of defence and foreign policy are important, but the new government must address widespread discontent in the country. This begins with investing in the rural sector.

PM’s economic advisor asks if India needs a new poverty line, says multidimensional index not enough

Bibek Debroy, chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, also suggested that analysing inequality at the state level might provide a clearer picture of inequality, as a national estimate could be misleading.

China does a Galwan in South China Sea, Coast Guard carries spears and knives

Pictures had emerged of Chinese soldiers carrying rifles and iron rods with machete-like heads in the vicinity of India’s forward locations on the southern bank of Pangong Tso in 2020.

Sangh wants BJP to know it’s not dispensable. It’s a rap on the knuckles, nothing more

Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.