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Shock-proofing the economy: Quality jobs the best possible safety net

Since jobs will remain scarce for the foreseeable future, an unemployment allowance should be the next big social-security initiative, writes T N Ninan

Australia's east coast floods to be declared a national emergency: PM Scott

Floods that have devastated Australia's east coast will be declared a national emergency, PM Scott Morrison said on Wednesday, as authorities look to deploy aid and urgent supplies to worst hit areas

US's Colorado declares state of emergency due to fast-moving grass fires

The US State of Colorado declared a state of emergency due to fast-moving grass fires created by high winds in Boulder County

New York declares State of Emergency amid spike in Covid-19 infections

New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued a state of emergency in the state due to a spike in new coronavirus infections and hospitalisations

Czechs declare state of emergency, impose new virus measures

The state of emergency comes into effect on Friday

Survival of the friendliest: One of India's transformations under Modi

The concept is relevant in an India where hate speech flourishes, where legislated and street violence can be unleashed against a chosen community, or those too weak to resist, writes T N Ninan

Survival of the friendliest: One of India's transformations under Modi

The concept is relevant in an India where hate speech flourishes, where legislated and street violence can be unleashed against a chosen community, or those too weak to resist, writes T N Ninan

Sudan general declares state of emergency after PM arrested

In a televised address, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan announced that he is dissolving the country's ruling Sovereign Council

Australia state declares emergency over Covid-19 outbreak in Sydney

An Australian state government on Friday declared an emergency due to a Covid-19 outbreak in Sydney

Japan to declare coronavirus emergency lasting through Olympics Games

Japan is set to place Tokyo under a state of emergency that would last through the Olympics, fearing an ongoing Covid-19 surge will multiply during the Games

New York to end state of emergency for Covid-19: Guv Andrew Cuomo

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that the state will end the statewide disaster emergency on Thursday thanks to substantial progress made in combating the Covid-19 pandemic

Et tu Ashoka?

A pioneer in liberal education takes a hard knock

Emergency was a mistake says Rahul Gandhi in conversation with Kaushik Basu

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said what happened during that period was "wrong", but it was fundamentally different from the current scenario

After 2014, opposition fighting battle for India, not for power: Rahul

Gandhi said the Congress party has to open itself to the people and submit itself to them, bringing together the resistance against the Modi government

The gyroscope of corporate governance

Lessons from political governance are instructive even for corporations

Of harmless humour & manufactured anger

The row over Tandav and the arrest of Munawar Faruqui are straight out of the political playbook successfully mastered by Muslim fundamentalists

Malaysia emergency suspends parliament for first time since 1969

The emergency declared on Tuesday puts off any risk of an election for Muhyiddin

Annus Horribilis: It wasn't just Covid that made 2020 one of the worst years

The food crisis of the 1960s gave birth to the Green Revolution, and out of 1970s' stagnation was born the first, weak impulses for economic reform. T N Ninan wonders what good will come out of 2020

Emergency considered blackest era in Indian democracy: Supreme Court

Holding lawyer Prashant Bhushan guilty of criminal contempt of court through a tweet in June, SC pointed out that the Emergency period is considered the blackest in the history of Indian democracy.

Ram Madhav takes dig at Rahul; says Emergency will never come back

BJP general secretary Ram Madhav said leaders whose grandparents were responsible for imposing Emergency are trying to misguide people by saying that a "mini emergency" like situation exists