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The Statesman Opinion

Virus Origins

The investigative report Biden ordered is due out by end of the Summer. The stakes are extremely high given the question of responsibility for millions of deaths worldwide, which potent institutions would much prefer to blame on wildlife. Keep in mind that, even if it were somehow proven that the pandemic had a non-laboratory origin, all the preceding research projects undeniably exist and continue, for the most part, unchecked.

Fake vaccines

The overwhelming ignorance during the period when the camp thrived ought to stump the health department authorities at Nabanna.

China steps in

But the crisis must of necessity be staved off in the interest of regional peace and stability.

Middle-East’s two outlaw states

History has demonstrated time and again that demanding change through nonviolence is an effective path to reconciliation and brotherhood.

In death row

The Death Penalty India Report comes as a rude shock. Principles of custodial care remain theoretical for the death-row prisoners, although it is obligatory for the police to take care of their well-being and health. It is fervently to be hoped that the findings of the report will prompt the prison administrators and policy makers to sit up and take notice and thus effect meaningful interventions to ensure the right of the undertrials to have an effective justice delivery system in the country