Sanjib Kumar Das, Senior Pages Editor

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India and China are actually far from a war

Stakes too high for war, though keeping fear-psychosis going is part of the survival kit!

Indian and Chinese soldiers near the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh.

Who are the Maoists?

An explainer on the radical communists

Who are the Maoists?

Amphan and Bengal’s tryst with ‘ekla chalo re’

From Jyoti Basu to Rukmini, ‘go it alone’ holds much traction against national ‘apathy’

Mangled remains of a bus after a tree fell on it during cyclone Amphan, in Kolkata last Thursday.

COVID-19: Story of India’s ‘great migration’

Lockdown exposes uneasy truths about India’s migrant workforce

A migrant woman cries as her and others were stopped from crossing the border, during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, May 15, 2020.

India’s migrant labourers are nobody’s children

India’s migrant labourers are ‘dispensable’ baggage in electoral quid-pro-quo

Workers disinfect the luggage of migrants as they stand in a queue to board a bus to go back home, in Patna.

COVID-19: Dichotomies in India’s stimulus package

Funding for Rs20 trillion relief measure and ‘local-global’ debate still mired in haze

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his address to the nation, in New Delhi on May 12.

COVID-19: ‘Time to focus on the positives’

Emirati employee feels Dubai will be back to normal faster than many other places

For Dubai-based Emirati and public-sector employee Abdulla Mohammad Al Mahri, this pandemic has come with a wide range of lessons for all of us and one ought to try and focus more on the postitives in these gloomy times.

‘Pandemic will bring about lifestyle changes’

Indian entrepreneur feels COVID-19 will see new generation inhabit a very different world

Dubai-based Indian entrepreneur Atul Kumar says the way Dubai and the UAE have tried to tackle the pandemic is truly exemplary.Credit: Supplied

COVID-19: Time for India to change the narrative

Post-lockdown, developing ‘herd immunity’ could be the way to winning the ‘war’

Police personnel wearing protective masks check paperwork for migrant workers being bused in by Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) from their respective Covid-19 quarantine camps to New Delhi Railway Station in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, May 7, 2020. The federal government announced it would start running special trains to transport stranded migrant workers. Local authorities will screen the passengers and only those found to be symptom-free would be allowed to travel, the home ministry said. Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg

‘Dubai and UAE showing the way to a new normal’

Emirati lawyer feels Dubai has taken the challenges of the pandemic in its stride

Advocate Abdullah Al Nasser believes that even after movement restrictions are relaxed completely and the dangers from the pandemic blow over, people will still take a long time to go back to their usual ways of life.
Credit: Supplied

COVID-19 heroes: ‘We must answer the call of the UAE’

Indian expat specialising in indoor air quality speaks his mind on braving a pandemic

Rakesh Awasthy, business head, CMS Group of Companies in Dubai, believes that this pandemic has given professionals like him an opportunity to serve the nation.
PHOTO Sanjib Kumar Das/Gulf News

COVID-19: How lockdowns halt a pandemic

Containment measures, followed by aggressive testing, can help ‘flatten the curve’

People wearing face masks arrive at the Cadorna railway station, as Italy begins a staged end to a nationwide lockdown due to the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Milan, Italy May 4, 2020.

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