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Army veterans point out flaws in Agnipath recruitment scheme

Union government announces scheme to recruit youth for the Armed Forces for a four-year period

Kolkata GPO becomes the first post office in the country to have a café, the Parcel Café, within its premises

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Two-member bench of the Madras High Court commutes death sentence to life in 2003 Murugesan-Kannagi honour killing case

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Refugees in Rwanda warn of challenges for arrivals from UK

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Is China building a military base in Cambodia?

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Will wheat prices remain elevated?

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Africa could feed itself with the right infrastructure

Covid-19

COVID-19 Update

Central government rejects WHO’s estimate of India's COVID deaths

R. 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 Update

COVID: Too soon to say the worst of the pandemic is behind us

T.K. Rajalakshmi

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COVID excess deaths

COVID casualties: The uncounted dead

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Three separate and spaced exposures to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein confers high immune protection, say scientists in two studies

R. Ramachandran

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COVID-19 Origins

The controversy being created about the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19

S. Krishnaswamy T.R. Govindarajan

Science and the scientific method have been thrown to the winds as politically motivated and unsubstantiated theories that pin the blame for the pande

COVID-19 update

COVID-19: No endgame in sight

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Amidst speculation of a third COVID wave, what remains missing are specific commitments to improve the quality of the public health response in India,

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COVID-19 Update

Local body elections and the Kumbh Mela has taken COVID-19 infections into the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh

Vishal Singh Deo Akram Akhtar Choudhary

As western Uttar Pradesh counts its dead, Shamli tells a story of how ill-timed local elections turned into a COVID-19 superspreader event. The admini

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India's vaccination policy: A U-turn and a spin

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Intense pressure from the opposition and the Supreme Court’s reprimand force the Prime Minister to announce free vaccination for all in the 18-44 ag

Dismantling regulatory mechanisms governing vaccines

Having blundered on the COVID-19 vaccine front, the Narendra Modi government now appears to be pandering to the demands of the vaccine multinationals.

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Unearthing the story of the sand burials on the banks of the Ganga

The ghats of Varanasi were overwhelmed by an unprecedented number of cremations and even sand burials in April-May during the devastating second wave

Children as victims of the pandemic

The discriminatory impact of the pandemic is resulting in poverty, rising malnutrition rates and mental trauma among children. Many of them have lost

Farming in a crisis

If agriculture was the only sector to grow during the first wave of the pandemic, the picture is not so rosy now in Maharashtra as the COVID restricti

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COVID-19 Update: Tamil Nadu

COVID-19: Chennai’s success story

Ilangovan Rajasekaran

The city Corporation’s new strategy of expanding emergency care infrastructure, conducting door-to-door surveys and follow-ups and encouraging publi

COVID-19 Update

COVID-19: Perils of vacuous claims

T.K. Rajalakshmi

The Central government’s claim of having controlled the second wave in the shortest possible time is hollow. Studies indicate the challenges to come

Hindu right-wing organisations in the U.S avail themselves of low-interest loans offered by the Small Business Administration

Even as questions are being asked in India about the money the Prime Minister and various Chief Ministers collected in the name of COVID relief, in th

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Black fungus: The deathly infection

Shahul H. Ebrahim Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya N.M. Mujeeb Rahman

The incidence of black fungus, the fatal opportunistic infection, underscores the need for significant public health investment in disease control and

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Terra Luna crash: When the crypto casino crumbled

The Terra-Luna crash in May made it clear that cryptocurrency is inherently volatile and prone to systemic crises. Yet, as long as there is excess li

Slideshow

Hooked on tradition

A festival in rural Bengal, considered essential to usher in a bountiful harvest, is marked by plenty of rituals, some of them dramatic but bizarre.

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