The Supreme Court’s recent order refusing to release Rohingya refugees detained illegally in Jammu and threatened with deportation to Myan...
- The Supreme Court’s recent order refusing to release Rohingya refugees detained illegally in Jammu and threatened with deportation to Myanmar, a country in the grip of a violent military coup, is bereft of cogent legal reasoning and lacks an understanding of India’s obligations under international law, writes Prashant Bhushan and Cherly D Souza in Indian Express.
- As of April 13, India had supplied over 65 million vaccines to 90 countries. With Covid-19 cases and deaths surging, the government needs to convince Indians that the vaccines were not exported at the cost of their health, says Vivek Katju in The Hindu.
- The end of the Covid-19 crisis in the United States is in sight, thanks to effective vaccines being deployed on a massive scale. But the growing death toll will leave behind millions of bereaved people, wracked by the suffering that the loss of a loved one brings. This is a public health crisis with consequences that may last generations, which we do not currently have the policy tools or resources to address, argues Allison Gilbert in the New York Times.
- The West Bengal elections acquire significance not only because they may define the state and the country’s future, but also test the limits of the BJP and its Hindutva juggernaut. Muslims, who constitute 27%...
