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BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, February 6: The unilateral scrapping by Sri Lanka of the trilateral agreement on developing the strategic East Container Terminal (ECT) at the Colombo Port has upset both India and Japan. Last week, Sri Lanka unilaterally pulled out of the 2019 agreement with India and Japan after […]
Patents a litmus test for global vaccine rollout Late in December last year, the world saw some light in the dark humanitarian tunnel of the coronavirus pandemic when more vaccines were approved for use. Until then, the world relied primarily on non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). These range from wearing masks and social distancing to hard lockdowns, with the latter having profoundly harmful effects and consequences around the world. The lockdowns decimated economies large and small and amplified social dichotomies. Where learning was disrupted, those with access to technology and onl...
Although India has played down Nepal Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali’s New Delhi visit as routine — he arrived on Thursday and substantive talks are scheduled for Friday — there is speculation, especially in Nepal, about what the visit means. Gyawali is part of a caretaker government after PM K P Oli dissolved Parliament and ordered elections last month following intra-party dissensions. He is in New Delhi as part of the sixth India-Nepal Joint Commission meeting. Although the invitation was extended before Oli dissolved Parliament, New Delhi had the option of changing the dates ...
Read more about The campaign for Covid-19 vaccine requires a 360-degree approach on Business Standard. Some lessons can be drawn from the two-decade-long pulse polio mass immunisation campaign that was memorably captured by an iconic phrase: "Do boond zindagi ki (Two drops of life)."
India’s China conundrum India’s China conundrum In a unilateral and a surprise move on the intervening night of June 16-17 2020, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entered the Galwan Valley Region, in the Eastern Ladakh, on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) . The Chinese incursion was built on the premise that India would not be able to take on the might of the Chinese army. The Indian soldiers stopped the Chinese from making grounds on the Indian side of the LAC. This lead to a hand to hand combat, where over 25 Indian soldiers lost their lives, and an unspeci...