Karnataka government relents in the face of widespread opposition, to make ‘certain changes’ in the revised textbooks
Advocate files PIL petition in Delhi High Court against the colonial legacy of using the call sign ‘VT’ by civilian aircraft in India
COVID-19 Update Central government rejects WHO’s estimate of India's COVID deathsR. Ramachandran The Indian government has rejected outright the WHO estimate that COVID-19 caused 4.7 million additional deaths in the country in 2020-21 and question
COVID-19 Three separate and spaced exposures to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein confers high immune protection, say scientists in two studies R. Ramachandran
COVER STORY: COVID-19 COVID: Swift spread of Omicron variant across States in third waveLyla BavadamR. KrishnakumarSuhrid Sankar ChattopadhyayR.K. RadhakrishnanVikhar Ahmed Sayeed
COVER STORY: COVID-19 Omicron surge: Understanding the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India R. Ramachandran
COVID-19 Will India be able to avert a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic? T.K. RajalakshmiThe downward trajectory of the second wave has slowed down to imperceptible levels, a worrying trend in a context where the numbers are rising again a
Interview: Dr Chandrakant Lahariya Dr Chandrakant Lahariya: ‘India’s Covid vaccination drive has been underwhelming’V. SridharInterview with Dr Chandrakant Lahariya, epidemiologist and public health expert.
COVID-19 Why counting the dead mattersANUPAMA KATAKAMThe Million Death Study, done between 1998 and 2014, was meant to throw up data on the leading causes of death in India. Had the study been allowed to
COVID-19 India impossibly short of vaccinating its entire adult population against COVID-19 by the end of 2021V. SridharIndia’s vaccination drive rests on a wing and a prayer as it looks set to miss the target of vaccinating all adults by the end of the year.
COVID-19 The fall and rise of COVID numbersT.K. RajalakshmiThe number of cases begins to rise again after weeks of showing a declining trend, confirming that the COVID challenge is not over yet.
Interview The Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan discusses COVID-19, vaccinations, science education in India, among other thingsJipson John Jitheesh P.M.Interview with Venki Ramakrishnan, structural biologist and a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
COVID-19 COVID-19 in India: Fourth ICMR survey results show 67.6 per cent seropositivityT.K. Rajalakshmi The results of the fourth nationwide ICMR survey show unprecedented levels of SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence while the rate of vaccination in Indi
COVID-19 A simple prescription to contain COVID-19 in rural KarnatakaVIKHAR AHMED SAYEED In Bagepalli A doctor and his team of volunteers spread across 160 villages of Karnataka adopt a simple method to contain the spread of COVID-19 in areas where pub
COVID-19 COVID-19 in India: False positivity amidst declining second wave?T.K. RajalakshmiThe current trend of declining COVID-19 cases and deaths and the positive outlook the government is projecting on the pandemic situation in India are
COVID-19 COVID-19 relief work: Friends in needVIKHAR AHMED SAYEEDA group of volunteers in Bengaluru lend dignity to the COVID dead by organising their last rites.
HINDU ORGANISATIONS Sangh Parivar’s U.S. funds trailRaqib Hameed Naik Divya TrivediHuge donations to Sewa International for COVID-relief efforts in India brings into focus the funding patterns of Hindu organisations in the United Sta
COVID-19 Under-reporting of pandemic tollANUPAMA KATAKAMThe concealing of the actual numbers of the dead is likely to impact research on the COVID-19 pandemic and block efforts to combat the virus.
Are Hindi films problematising history? After Padmaavat, the Hindu historical tasted blood and sharpened its fangs, but the recent Samrat Prithviraj is a weak offspring of the genre, neither
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.
COVID-19 Persons with disabilities face double whammy of inaccessibility and official apathy in the pandemic