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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

In Bihar, BJP is courting upper castes—a clear shift from its 2020 strategy

With two parties led by Dalit leaders now part of NDA, the BJP is hopeful of winning a large number of reserved constituencies.

US sanctions Rosneft & Lukoil: What we know of 2 oil giants that produce half of Russia’s crude

Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.