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On May Day, Minister Meghwal & D Raja remember workers, Pratibha Singh on Covid patents

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Sun Weidong, Aakar Patel and more.

Deepak Nayyar on govt’s ‘exit dilemma’, Dipankar Gupta promotes universal health care

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Ram Madhav, Rohit Prasad, Kanika Datta and more.

Yashwant Sinha says lockdown can’t be indefinite, Jaffrelot on ‘populist’ leader Modi

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Ayaz Memon, R. Jagannathan, Sanjay Jha and many others.

Tharoor sees opportunity in oil crisis, Urjit Patel wants RBI to preserve inflation liquidity

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from M.K. Narayanan, Pronab Sen, Mahesh Vyas and many others.

Harsh V Pant on China’s power play and Rakesh Sood on new nuclear arms race

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from S.K. Sarin, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Debashis Basu and many others.

Vikram Mehta on advantages in oil crisis, Deepak Nayyar on why India fares better than many

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Ajay Vir Jakhar, David M. Sloan, G Chandrashekhar and many others.

Kaushik Basu says avoid ‘permit raj’ and Omkar Goswami on Covid-19’s ‘S’ curve

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Ameeta Mulla Wattal, Pratibha M. Singh, Krishna Kumar and many others.

Covid-19: Govinda Rao says states need resources, Palshikar skeptical about lockdown success

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Shashank Joshi, Jyoti Mukul, Frank F. Islam and many others.

Sanjaya Baru says lockdown will shape Centre-state ties, Raja Mohan on global tilt to Left

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Abhishek Singhvi, Mahesh Vyas, Jayati Ghosh and many others.

Sandipan Deb sees ‘job bloodbath’ and Amitabh Kant on the next step in the fight

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Apoorvanand, Ajay Shah, Sunita Narain and many others.

On Camera

Maharashtra’s language war reaches West Bengal. Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is the first victim

While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.