Opinion

A large budget is required to maintain the pace of the vaccination campaign and to cover the possibility of a second round of Covid-19 booster doses.

Let this incident be a lesson for all event organisers, who, in their enthusiasm to showcase drones, do not coordinate with requisites ministries before embarking on such missions.

Epics like Ramayana invoke cultural and civilisational connections of India with other Asian countries. They can further strengthen the present and the future by utilising the past.

With Air India going back to the Tatas, the country's tax payers will be better off and the government will have the luxury of transferring a loss-making asset to a corporate entity that has established credentials in the aviation sector.

India’s proactive engagement with Central Asia is part of its larger foreign policy objective. PM Modi has sought to expand relations with neighbouring regional blocs.

Many scientists are very hopeful that infection by Omicron after vaccination will serve as a potent booster. They say the super-immunity or hybrid immunity should protect people against severe disease.

Protectionist measures in the name of self-sufficiency cannot foster growth in complex technology supply chains and can lead to discouraging innovation and slow growth.

The devastation caused by the second COVID wave is still fresh in our minds. Hence, when dealing with the third wave, it is normal to feel scared.

Uttar Pradesh election results could well throw up answers to the most intriguing political questions about the shape of things to come.

The JPC report recommends that fake accounts and bots on social media can be stopped only by verification of accounts through simple measures.

Punjab is the only Indian state other than Mizoram where insurgency has been successfully tackled.

Amitabh Bachchan’s hold over our imaginations, reignited by KBC, hasn’t faltered despite generations of new actors who came after, including the Khan trinity: Salman, Shah Rukh and Aamir.

On December 16, 1971, MPs were anxiously waiting for news from Dacca. The liberation of Bangladesh with the support of Indian armed forces was imminent.

The future of multilateralism lies in the creation of need-based coalitions focusing on specific areas of technology cooperation.

The four-star General from Gorkha regiment died while on the way to Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) that was once commanded by another Gorkha officer, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw.

Many analysts, both in the West and in India, tend to take a rather conventional view that a collapsing Pakistani economy will make Pakistan a more dangerous state.