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How AstraZeneca can recover from its Covid vaccine stumble

Even without a new trial, AstraZeneca can regain confidence in its research and vaccine – which still seems to show great promise – by releasing more granular data.

Latest US missile interception tech ends era of nuclear stability

Since Cold War, stability has been preserved through reality of mutual assured destruction. But US' new tech cuts link between offense & defense that underlies all calculations.

Bitcoin and China are winning the Covid-19 monetary revolution

Covid-19 has been good for Bitcoin & cryptocurrency generally. By accelerating our advance into a more digital word, what might have taken 10 years has been achieved in 10 months.

Employers still pick younger candidates, even if older ones are good at their job

In 2016, LinkedIn removed people’s ages from their profiles. This was the right thing to do.

In Congress after Ahmed Patel, Rahul Gandhi needs to play the bigger person, call for unity

With no counter to Rahul Gandhi’s writ on the party, it is time for him to replace the loyalty test with merit and accountability.

Why DDC election in Kashmir is the report card BJP is waiting for

DDC election is the BJP’s chance to prove that domestic and global critics were wrong on Kashmir.

3 Chinese scientists just said Covid came from India, Bangladesh. It’s politics, not science

If a scientist intends to politicise a pandemic, the most unscientific method would be the generation of populist theories without gathering further insight on their data.

Why the Biden era will be neither normal nor boring

No matter how dull Joe Biden aspires to be, the forces of entropy — including a soon-to-be-removed incumbent desperate to polarise for profit — will push toward chaos and conflict.

Why CM Uddhav Thackeray is looking up to teachers and graduates to provide him stability

Defeat of MVA in the council polls would convince Rahul Gandhi even more that he was right and Ahmed Patel wrong about Congress joining hands with Shiv Sena.

School closures are stressing our kids and threatening their future

The pandemic is testing us all with volatile, uncertain and complex times. Our children are going through it, too. And keeping them out of school makes it much worse.

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.