Best of BS Opinion: Checking fake news, coronavirus crisis, and more

From how developing countries have fewer and harder choices about how to confront the coronavirus pandemic and why strategic oil reserve is an important tool during the ongoing crisis to the reasons why India should not extend the complete lockdown beyond April 14, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day.

This is an important time for India to signal that it is a responsible consumer of petroleum, with a stake in stabilising the crude oil market, says the top edit. Click here to read...

WhatsApp is taking welcome steps to contain the fake news menace, says our second edit. Read on...

The  nationwide  lockdown  must  be  wound  down  in  phases keeping  both  Covid-19  hotspots  and  economic needs in balance, contends Shyamal Majumdar. Click here to read...

If the international community wants to avoid a wave of defaults, it must develop a rescue plan immediately, writes Joseph E Stiglitz, professor at Columbia University and chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute. Read on...

The National Infrastructure Pipeline is clearly the mega-stimulus for the post-corona revival effort, writes Vinayak Chatterjee, chairman, Feedback Infra. Click here to read...

To win in life, you don’t require ambition for its own sake. Leaders need to think of humility as being in the service of ambition, writes corporate advisor & distinguished professor of IIT Kharagpur R Gopalakrishnan.

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"If we move too early, we will go backwards"

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern explaining why she has no plans to lift the month-long lockdown in the island nation early, and may need to extend it still.