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In July 2020, the popular streaming platform, Netflix, released the reality-documentary show, Indian Matchmaking, to a global audience. The show follows the journey of a Mumbai-based matchmaker who arranges marriage alliances between wealthy families in India and the US. In one scene, Akshay, a Bombay boy, talks about a prospective wife: “If she’s busy with her work, who’s going to take care of the kids and all?”

The same lackadaisical approach of the rulers over spending on health continues. COVID-19 infection and related deaths have ever been increasing. In absence of health facilities, governments resorted to lockdowns, which crippled the world economy and created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis of survival and hunger. This cost is too high to bear compared to a world without lockdown which will need only an average ten-fold increase in the present meager spending on health sector to respond to COVID-19 crisis, and also any other future crisis. Not to increase spending and resorting to only lockdowns due to capacity constraints will not be tenable in the long run.

India has been at the receiving end of adverse comments from the world community on several counts. These include the prolonged incarceration of social activists and the civil unrest on the citizenship measures while inside the country, there is disquiet about the emasculation of autonomous institutions.

It is still not clear on the part of the government about how to handle the spread of coronavirus across the country and follow at the same time a well designed programme that will save life as well as economy. Five months already passed since the pandemic broke out in India. The virus continues to spread and kill people with little improvement in its tracking and treatment. The government is yet to find a way to handle the situation in the absence of enough doctors, medical professionals and public hospitals while the economy and jobs continue to shrink alarmingly.

New Delhi: Panchkula (Haryana) will host the fourth edition of the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) after the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

New Delhi: Describing the Olympics as the toughest competition in the sporting world, Chief Coaches of Indian men and women’s hockey teams on Saturday urged their players to develop unshakable self-belief and strong mental attitude among themselves if they want to attain glory in the Games.

Emergency financing is the main instrument which the Narendra Modi Government is using in the current period of pandemic to bring about economic recovery. The situation as of now has gone out of hands and nearly four months after the first lock down in the country was announced on March 24, the economic situation needs some hard nosed practical policies taking into account the ground reality.

Irrespective of what happens to the petition by Rajasthan Assembly Speaker in the Supreme Court, questioning the Rajasthan High Court’s restraint on him to act on the notices issued to rebel Congress leader Sachin Pilot and 18 other MLAs, remarks made by a bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra, Bhushan Gavai and Krishna Murari must set all democracy enthusiasts thinking about the right to dissent that our current form of democracy allows.

In 1959, when Indira Gandhi was elected president of the Congress, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had to face criticism for promoting his daughter. Significantly, he was quick to deny this was his intention “I am certainly not grooming her as my successor,” Nehru told his critics. “In fact for some time I was mentally opposed to the idea.”

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is a double whammy for the embattled Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.