Opinion

Full social and economic rehabilitation of the migrants for leading a life of dignity and equality, which is the quintessence of Article 21 of the Constitution, has to be addressed by governments with a full sense of urgency and seriousness of concern.

Over the last few months, the ‘lockdown’ has emerged as one of the key strategies and possibly the most favoured intervention to contain the spread of the disease by several nations.

Three people, including two sadhus and a driver, were lynched on April 16 in a small village in Maharashtra’s Palghar. The police did not do anything and, instead, one of them was seen handing over the 70-year old sadhu to the murderous mob.

The Tablighi Jamaat is most instrumental in spreading the coronavirus epidemic across the country and the behaviour of Jamaatis towards medical and police staff is most heart-wrenching.

Criticism of someone’s action means that one has a different idea of what needs to be done. But for Rahul Gandhi, criticism is not a means to make things better, but just a poisoned dart to be thrown around without any responsibility or information.

Experts say while frequent washing of hands and maintenance of personal hygiene requires much more water, it might not necessarily lead to water shortage in the city in the coming months.

In this time of coronavirus crisis, the role of the boatman or the media has also come under sharp scrutiny.

Major economies that are dependent on Chinese goods were already in a crisis when the virus was active in China. After COVID-19 entered those countries, the crunch has worsened.

As airlines continue to struggle, an unintended casualty of the global health emergency could be the proposed sale of state-owned Air India.

Shiv Sena’s target constituency of the Marathi manoos is shrinking within Mumbai and the surrounding areas, ironically under the party’s watch, and it needs to expand its electoral catchment.

With his flip-flop statements, the actor has only lowered his own credibility as a potential game changer in Tamil Nadu politics.

The distribution of ministerial berths within the three parties ensured that senior leaders in the Congress, like former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, could not be accommodated in the cabinet.

The Congress leadership has to look inwards about why leaders like Scindia, who have been encouraged all through, are quitting the party.

On Monday, when PM Modi announced that he may quit social media, it shocked the country. PM Modi wrote that he will keep everybody posted.

In his earlier avatar, Kejriwal would have not spared Amit Shah, who holds the charge for law and order in the national capital.

Reading between the lines, the cadre is being told that the BJP depends on the RSS and not vice-versa; the party is an adjunct and its electoral fortunes are of limited importance.