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Despite improvements in daily vaccination numbers and the promise of increased supply, challenges persist in India’s vaccination drive. First, there is a sharp rural-urban disparity (which, to be sure, is narrowing) in per capita vaccination numbers, and second, there are intermittent “dry” days in some parts of the country when lack of supplies brings the vaccination process to a halt.

Amit Shah! If there’s a ring of authority to the name, it’s because ‘Shah’ spells ‘Amit’, like in the ‘Rishtey mei toh hum tumhare baap lagte hain, naam hai Shehanshah’, which is a ringtone that sounds like ‘The name is Bond, James Bond!’ But this is about Union Home Minister Amit Shah, whose successes double up as failures depending upon which side of the aisle an onlooker happens to be at a given point in time, at Amit Shah's side or on the other side.

Pegasus, the winged horse, is supposed to carry thunderbolts as per Greek mythology. It seems one of these bolts has struck the Modi government, which is in a real predicament over the use of the Israeli spyware to snoop on people in India. Whether such use was authorised or unauthorised remains a moot point right now.

New Delhi: Riding on Vandana Katariya's three goals India piped spirited South Africa 4-3 and completed their Pool A league assignments with two wins and kept their Quarter-Finals hopes alive in the Women's hockey competition of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.

The first page of few dailies of Delhi carried the full page advertisement on the Tiger Day celebration July 29, the large sized picture of the Prime Minister with two tigers, one kind prowling in the region at 380 meters above sea level and other variety chosen from tigers living in the forests at 3850 meters above the sea level adorned half the page. The quotes appeared like assurance of safe living for the animals by the Prime Minister in his reign. The bottom half with picture of new chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami of Uttarakhand revealed the real purpose.

New Delhi: India made heavy weather of their win as they overcame spirited Japan 5-3, to finish second in Pool A and set up a quarter final clash with Great Britain in the Olympic Men's Hockey competition at the Oi Stadium in Tokyo on Friday.

New Delhi: Teenager Manu Bhaker placed fifth overnight after the first precision round, shot 290 in the rapid fire round to end with a score of 582, and in the process failed to make the finals of the Women's 25M Pistol on Friday at the Asaka Shooting range.

New Delhi: A fine opportunistic goal by Navneet Kaur three minutes before the final hooter kept India alive as they beat Ireland 1-0 in the Women's Olympic hockey competition at Oi Stadium Tokyo on Friday.

Despite some positive developments, serious threat to economy and health continues, warned the mid-year review of the WTO. To overcome the risk the countries across the world need to keep the markets and supply chain open and restrictions minimized it suggested. The report was reviewed by a the WTO’s Trade Policy Review which draws attention of the world towards insufficient production of vaccines contributing to significant disparities in access across countries, especially in the low-income developing countries which are struggling to obtain enough doses to inoculate more than a small fraction of their population.

It is thirty years since India adopted neoliberal policies in 1991, though some would date their introduction even earlier to 1985. Newspapers are full of assessments of the impact of these policies on the economy, and liberalisers from Manmohan Singh downwards, have suddenly become visible, lauding their handiwork, while lamenting at best that the benefits of liberalisation have been unevenly distributed. Manmohan Singh has recently said that “a healthy and dignified life for every Indian must be prioritised”; one wonders what prevented him from doing so when he was at the helm of affairs.