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Opening with care

analysis

Updated on Jun 19, 2020 05:36 AM IST

Now, more than ever, women can gain access to work – but only with a trustworthy care economy. It must be professionalised

Steps to ramp up and professionalise India’s care economy will ease up the usual burden on women. Functional care centres for children and older people employing safe and trained domestic workers can help women pursue career options(Kunal Patil/HT)

ByRoopa Purushothaman, Anu Madgavkar and Vivek Pandit

How the Galwan tragedy has clarified India’s vision

China poses the most serious strategic threat ever faced by India. Delhi now has the room to make choices

Border Security Force personnel stand guard along the Srinagar-Leh National highway, Ganderbal district of central Kashmir, June 17, 2020. Twenty army personnel including a colonel were killed during a clash with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley of the eastern Ladakh region on June 15(PTI)

analysis

Updated on Jun 18, 2020 06:55 PM IST

ByHarsh Pant

Covid-19 in India: Time for bold experimentation

Involve the private sector in testing; ramp up the contact tracing apparatus; invest in research; experiment widely

A health official collects a swab sample from a man to test for the Covid-19 test, Chennai, June 16, 2020(AFP)

analysis

Updated on Jun 18, 2020 07:33 PM IST

ByShamika Ravi

A long-term, climate-resilient development pathway should guide India’s development

It should look at strengthening institutions, both at the national and sub-national levels, along with providing smart incentives to promote state-of-the-art climate-resilient infrastructure

A United Nations (UN) report on economic losses and disasters estimates that in last 20 years India has lost US$ 79.5 billion due to climate-related disasters(PTI)

analysis

Updated on Jun 18, 2020 01:02 PM IST

ByKaran Mangotra and Saurabh Bhardwaj

After Galwan, what next for India-China ties?

New Delhi has a range of options. What matters is the objective it sets for itself in the immediate and long-term

While PM said differences should not become disputes, that is where India-China ties are at the moment(PTI)

analysis

Updated on Jun 17, 2020 08:09 PM IST

ByC Uday Bhaskar

Unveiling reforms in India’s coal sector

This will ignite investment, shore up production, create employment and move us towards self-reliance

The coal sector reforms are not just about investments and improving coal production. It has the innate potential to usher in immense job opportunities and provide a boost to the government’s Make in India programme, since coal mining operations require large machines and manpower(Pankaj Kumar/HT)

analysis

Updated on Jun 17, 2020 08:27 PM IST

ByPralhad Joshi

Decoding China’s planned aggression

Its arc of military pressure is designed to test India’s preparedness, political will and resolve

With pressure on Xi Jinping, he will be reluctant to withdraw forces without substantive gains(AP)

analysis

Updated on Jun 17, 2020 07:58 PM IST

ByJayadeva Ranade

Social media is killing democracy

Print is in crisis. TV news has declined. Social media, with its fake news and lies, dominates

Contrary to all evidence, people continue to believe that newspapers can be a source of infection. This is wrong(HTPhoto)

analysis

Updated on Jun 17, 2020 02:56 PM IST

ByVir Sanghvi

China’s PLA is nibbling at the border in name of peace and tranquility

The bloody Galwan valley face-off has e skirmish has shattered the “peace and tranquility” myth perpetuated by Chinese rulers since the 1950s

Galwan valley face-off: China wants the border and bilateral trade on its terms by trying to impose its military might(Getty Images)

analysis

Updated on Jun 17, 2020 12:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByShishir Gupta

Many countries saw a dip in cases. There are lessons

Achieve a recovery rate of over 70%, follow social distancing, and understand host susceptibility to virus

Public health workers in Chandigarh, April 30, 2020(Ravi Kumar / Hindustan Times)

analysis

Updated on Jun 16, 2020 06:55 PM IST

ByDr Narinder Kumar Mehra

India is key to the global battle against Covid-19

Beating the disease will require innovation, equity and global collaboration. India scores on all three counts

Today, Indian companies have 30 potential vaccines in their pipelines, with several of the most promising backed by government funding. Our foundation is partnering with the department of biotechnology, the Indian Council of Medical Research, and the office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to provide insights from our global research and development work that might inform India’s vaccine development efforts.(REUTERS)

analysis

Updated on Jun 16, 2020 08:29 PM IST

ByMark Suzman

It is time to tap potential of handicrafts and textiles

It can be produced in rural areas; it creates jobs; it needs low investment; it can be a Made in India by Hand brand

After the coronavirus pandemic, the reality is that the handloom and handcraft sector in India needs a way to survive(Shivam Saxena/Hindustan Times)

analysis

Updated on Jun 15, 2020 06:55 PM IST

ByRitu Kumar

For tourism, here is an Incredible India 2.0 plan

The pandemic has affected the sector. But it has the potential to become the biggest employment generator

Travel and tourism has employed more than 42 million people in India or accounted approximately for 8.1% of the total employment opportunities. Last year, it contributed 9.3% to India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and received 5.9% of total investments(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

analysis

Updated on Jun 16, 2020 11:15 AM IST

ByAmitabh Kant

Build a new economic imagination

Move beyond State-market, rural-urban, agri-non agri and welfare-growth binaries. They are linked

For growth, invest in State capacity and regulatory institutions(Reuters)

analysis

Updated on Jun 15, 2020 06:24 PM IST

ByYamini Aiyar and Mekhala Krishnamurthy

The NDA’s false parenthood claim, writes Abhishek Manu Singhvi

The BJP dismissed MGNREGS. If it wants to claim it, it should expand its scope and pay dues

The UPA government conceptualised MGNREGS, Aadhaar, and DBT(ARVIND YADAV/HT)

analysis

Updated on Jun 14, 2020 10:39 PM IST

ByAbhishek Manu Singhvi

UAE stands with India and Indian expatriates

Indians have contributed to make UAE successful. We will remain a place of opportunity and tolerance for migrants

A migrant labourer arranges to send money home, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Last year, AED 169 billion ($46 billion) in remittances flowed out of UAE — more than half of it into the countries of South Asia, of these India primarily. This remittance flow is the second highest in the world.(Getty Images)

analysis

Updated on Jun 14, 2020 06:49 PM IST

ByNasser bin Thani Al Hamli

I had Covid-19. And society decided to stigmatise me

Are we are making Covid-19 into a sort of disease like leprosy where the stigma has been transferred? By now, we know the preventive methods to contain the spread. This stigma needs to be tackled through education and also, in extreme cases, by punishing the perpetrators legally

It was a very unpleasant experience for me to see children looking frightened when they saw me and even one neighbour showering abuses at me. I started getting abusive WhatsApp messages from them and the resident welfare association accusing me of being a liar and a threat to them(Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO)

analysis

Updated on Jun 13, 2020 08:35 PM IST

ByUpendra Kaul

India had offered dialogue to Nepal on row over map. Why PM Oli ignored it

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has let self-preservation trump national interest

In Nepal, a question that continues to be raised among the intelligentsia, public, politicians has been over why India has been silent on diplomatic dialogue.(Getty Images)

world news

Updated on Jun 14, 2020 06:18 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByShishir Gupta

Indian Railways has never been safer. What next | Opinion

The aim is to have zero accidents with robust safety systems in place. But accidents do happen, fewer than in the past.

A passenger wearing PPE kit seen inside a Rajdhani Express train bound to Chennai from New Delhi amid Covid-19 lockdown(Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)

analysis

Updated on Jun 13, 2020 11:21 AM IST

ByArunendra Kumar

PM Modi re-engineered, reformed and cleaned up MGNREGS, writes Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

With increased allocation, direct transfers, and removal of leakages, the NDA made it effective

Under the Congress, there was corruption in how work was given out; a fraction of wages reached beneficiaries; and fake cards proliferated. This has changed(DHEERAJ DHAWAN/HTPHOTO)

analysis

Updated on Jun 13, 2020 11:22 AM IST

ByGajendra Singh Shekhawat

Facebook is weakening democracy | Analysis

It is evading responsibility for profits, even as Twitter is stepping up to ensure accountability

Facebook is being seen as a media entity, not an agnostic global platform. This is how it should be(Shutterstock)

analysis

Updated on Jun 12, 2020 06:26 AM IST

ByDipayan Ghosh

Covid-19 has opened the doors for Gov Tech 3.0 | Analysis

The government should now focus on creating digital commons, while ensuring robust privacy protection

Many countries, including India, have deployed contact tracing apps developed through public-private partnerships, to prevent the spread of the virus, and are crowd-sourcing relevant information from citizens(AP)

analysis

Updated on Jun 11, 2020 07:17 PM IST

ByVarad Pande and Kriti Mittal

Why defections continue to cast a shadow on politics | Opinion

Campaign professionalisation and power centralisation in parties have reduced the role, and loyalty, of legislators

In a book published in 1974, Subhash Kashyap, former secretary-general of the seventh Lok Sabha and an expert in constitutional law, recalled that in the 1967-71 period, 142 defections took place in Parliament. As many as 1,969 defections took place in assemblies, causing the downfall of 32 state governments.(Arvind Yadav/HT PHOTO)

analysis

Updated on Jun 11, 2020 08:42 AM IST

ByGilles Verniers

A blueprint to improve health systems in cities | Opinion

The pandemic has exposed the weaknesses, inequities and dearth of investment in India’s urban health infra

Health workers conducting the coronavirus disease test inside Dharavi, Mumbai, June 8, 2020(Satyabrata Tripathy/HT Photo)

analysis

Updated on Jun 11, 2020 06:15 AM IST

ByCK Mishra

A post-Covid-19 social protection architecture for India

Stronger social protection led by an inclusive growth dividend will protect the vulnerable and drive India’s economic recovery

Migrants returning from Rajasthan, Patna, Bihar, May 9, 2020(Santosh Kumar)

analysis

Updated on Jun 11, 2020 12:39 PM IST

ByKarthik Muralidharan

In India and the US, a tale of two rights movements, writes Salman Khurshid

Even as protesters in the US find solidarity, anti-CAA protesters in India continue to be targeted

As protests over Floyd’s death intensified in the US, social media was flooded with posts on police brutality(Getty Images)

analysis

Updated on Jun 09, 2020 08:47 PM IST

BySalman Khurshid

South Asia must now build resilient supply chains | Analysis

Facilitate cross-border flow of goods and services by reducing tariffs; improving logistics, infra and digitisation

Many commentators envisage that there will be a decline in globalisation and relative strengthening of regional supply chains(ANI)

analysis

Updated on Jun 09, 2020 06:58 PM IST

ByRiya Sinha and Niara Sareen

A three-fold test for new legislations | Analysis

Has it been subject to scrutiny? How will it be implemented? Is it appropriate for the issue?

With Parliament and assemblies not in session, the executive has been pushing new legislations. But for laws to be effective, they have to be carefully made, regularly sharpened, and judiciously used(Mohd Zakir/HT PHOTO)

analysis

Updated on Jun 09, 2020 07:20 PM IST

ByChakshu Roy

How India can come out of the recession stronger | Opinion

Enhance productivity; invest in skilling, digital infra, agriculture; and come up with a New Deal

Spending on infrastructure even by printing money will reduce transaction costs and raise productivity. As Benjamin Franklin said, “You may delay but time will not.”(PARWAZ KHAN/HTPHOTO)

analysis

Updated on Jun 08, 2020 10:21 PM IST

ByJanmejaya Sinha

To counter China, look for options beyond LAC | Opinion

The military asymmetry helps China. India must acquire transborder capabilities and shed its sea blindness

The contested LAC is symbolic of the decades-old territorial dispute, and from the Indian perspective, the October 1962 border war remains a stark reminder of the “humiliation” heaped on former PM Jawaharlal Nehru(Arvind-Yadav/HTPhoto)

analysis

Updated on Jun 08, 2020 10:22 PM IST

ByC Uday Bhaskar

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Now, more than ever, women can gain access to work – but only with a trustworthy care economy. It must be professionalised

China poses the most serious strategic threat ever faced by India. Delhi now has the room to make choices

Involve the private sector in testing; ramp up the contact tracing apparatus; invest in research; experiment widely

It should look at strengthening institutions, both at the national and sub-national levels, along with providing smart incentives to promote state-of-the-art climate-resilient infrastructure

New Delhi has a range of options. What matters is the objective it sets for itself in the immediate and long-term

This will ignite investment, shore up production, create employment and move us towards self-reliance

Its arc of military pressure is designed to test India’s preparedness, political will and resolve

Print is in crisis. TV news has declined. Social media, with its fake news and lies, dominates

The bloody Galwan valley face-off has e skirmish has shattered the “peace and tranquility” myth perpetuated by Chinese rulers since the 1950s

Achieve a recovery rate of over 70%, follow social distancing, and understand host susceptibility to virus

Beating the disease will require innovation, equity and global collaboration. India scores on all three counts

It can be produced in rural areas; it creates jobs; it needs low investment; it can be a Made in India by Hand brand

The pandemic has affected the sector. But it has the potential to become the biggest employment generator

Move beyond State-market, rural-urban, agri-non agri and welfare-growth binaries. They are linked

The BJP dismissed MGNREGS. If it wants to claim it, it should expand its scope and pay dues

Indians have contributed to make UAE successful. We will remain a place of opportunity and tolerance for migrants

Are we are making Covid-19 into a sort of disease like leprosy where the stigma has been transferred? By now, we know the preventive methods to contain the spread. This stigma needs to be tackled through education and also, in extreme cases, by punishing the perpetrators legally

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has let self-preservation trump national interest

The aim is to have zero accidents with robust safety systems in place. But accidents do happen, fewer than in the past.

With increased allocation, direct transfers, and removal of leakages, the NDA made it effective

It is evading responsibility for profits, even as Twitter is stepping up to ensure accountability

The government should now focus on creating digital commons, while ensuring robust privacy protection

Campaign professionalisation and power centralisation in parties have reduced the role, and loyalty, of legislators

The pandemic has exposed the weaknesses, inequities and dearth of investment in India’s urban health infra

Stronger social protection led by an inclusive growth dividend will protect the vulnerable and drive India’s economic recovery

Even as protesters in the US find solidarity, anti-CAA protesters in India continue to be targeted

Facilitate cross-border flow of goods and services by reducing tariffs; improving logistics, infra and digitisation

Has it been subject to scrutiny? How will it be implemented? Is it appropriate for the issue?

Enhance productivity; invest in skilling, digital infra, agriculture; and come up with a New Deal

The military asymmetry helps China. India must acquire transborder capabilities and shed its sea blindness

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