Frontline

Interview with the historian Romila Thapar.

Opting for cooperation over coercion in its new COVID control policy, Maharashtra struggles with a truculent public and politicking by the Centre.

India had a golden opportunity to evaluate every serious ‘adverse events following immunisation’, but in the absence of trained public health officers, the job was not done well, leading to unanswered questions. Lack of transparency has led to lack of vaccine confidence.

In the final three phases of the Assembly election in West Bengal, the BJP and the Trinamool are locked in tough contests in several of the 114 constituencies in 10 districts. The Left and the Congress are unlikely to regain political ground in their former strongholds.

The elections, especially in West Bengal and Assam, have been marked by vituperative campaigns and communally polarising statements in violation of the Election Commission’s Model Code of Conduct.

As foreign-made vaccines are cleared for emergency use and post-approval parallel bridging clinical trials are waiting to be done, it becomes imperative for the adverse effects monitoring and surveillance system to be more effective than has been the case so far.

A remarkable collection of 13 essays, written over three decades in the best traditions of Indian historiography, on the making of Odisha as a region.

As the second wave of COVID-19 rages across the nation overwhelming the public health system, the Central government remains clueless and ill-prepared.

The Joe Biden administration may have ambitions of restoring U.S. economic competitiveness and dominance, but its position on digital services taxes sends out contradictory signals on its willingness to cooperate in the framing of a global minimum corporate tax.

Infections rise in Tamil Nadu as a rudderless State government struggles to contain new COVID cases, while Puducherry fears a lockdown disrupting tourism.