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Monday, July 28, 2025
TopicPandemic

Topic: Pandemic

PM Modi, Amit Shah’s airtime declines with the worsening pandemic

Govt stayed away from TV news. There were some tough questions waiting.

Armed forces can turn Delhi’s Covid situation around in 48 hours. Time to call them in

The full potential of the armed forces is not being utilised. They are not in the decision-making loop and military representatives have not been consulted.

Western press critical of Modi, so why is G-7 inviting him to UK summit?

Despite Modi’s hubris in declaring victory on the virus, the world recognises that the prime minister remains the tallest leader on the national landscape.

India’s hope is ebbing. It needs a leader who focuses on health, not victory

A crisis is the biggest test of leadership. The last 12 months show that there was clearly a leadership deficit.

Acquittal of Priya Ramani in defamation case will encourage women to speak up, caution powerful men

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Modi is right: Government deserves no credit for bringing Covid under control in India

It is not government action or even the people’s resolve that brought Covid under control in India. It’s just luck, and herd immunity.

How a captain’s mid-ocean detour tipped off investors to a Covid crisis at sea

Investors discovered that strict Covid protocols had left hundreds of seafarers stranded on cargo ships, turning them from engines of global commerce into floating prisons.

What Nirmala Sitharaman can do to rescue millions of silent victims of the pandemic

Millions of people slipped back into poverty, lost their jobs or slipped from salaried to part-time ones. Some relief has been given, but more has to be done.

Questions were raised over 2021 Republic Day parade. But there’s no better timing

Parades send out a statement to the world about a country’s security capability and the role it can play as a dependable participant in the global community.

The world has become a more equal place during Covid

Many scholars and organisations worry that the world has become a less equal place because of Covid & the ensuing economic crisis. But the opposite has happened on a global level.

On Camera

Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

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.