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Best of BS Opinion: Late on the ball, counting true death toll, and more

Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day

The RBI was at the forefront of providing stimulus to the economy last year, while the Narendra Modi-led government followed with modest fiscal steps
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Reserve Bank of India

Kanika Datta
Was the central bank’s off-cycle repo rate hike the result of a misreading of its inflation-control mandate, an effort to facilitate North Block’s huge borrowing programme at the lowest cost possible or an exercise in  “inflating away debt”? T N Ninan weighs the arguments. Read it here

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Devangshu Datta says the 10X gap between government and WHO estimates of Covid-19 related deaths in India is too large to ignore and should be investigated in the interests of shaping meaningful healthcare policy. Read it here

Mihir Sharma says instead of aggressively rebutting