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Ebola's global threat and India's preparedness

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28-11-201439 STORIES

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Economic vision

How the Congress rejected the Nehruvian economic trajectory

The Nehruvian economic trajectory was premised on the idea of winning economic independence from foreign capital.

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C.P. Chandrasekhar

Dipping NRI interest

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Close-up and up close

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‘Cleaning up’ India

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Recitation row

Does one caste group have the sole right to sit before the deity and sing a set of hymns? This question is at the centre of a long-running feud in a t

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Coal block auction

Having opted for the e-auction route following the de-allocation of coal blocks, the government has to ensure a transparent and fool-proof bidding sys

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Risk preparedness

Wake-up call

The Ebola disease outbreak draws attention to the need for preparedness and for more government spending on public health infrastructure.

Is India prepared?

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Caught between life and death

The Palk Strait has become a dangerous fishing ground for the fishermen of Tamil Nadu, particularly Rameswaram. They hope that the Central government

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For a vaccine

The WHO’s special consultation meeting in September discusses potential therapies and vaccines, but the affected countries, being poor, do not represe

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Nigerian lesson

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Global scare

It is estimated that up to 1.4 million people could be infected with the Ebola virus by the end of January. Such scary projections notwithstanding, in

Complex crisis

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Strategic entente

India makes an earnest effort to increase its footprint in Vietnam and give new life to its “Look East” policy during the recent visit of the Vietname

Tuna tales

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BJP’s India

The two books look at how the rise of the BJP, with its antagonism towards Muslims and its priorities on security, is reshaping India.

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Flames of hatred

The recent communal violence in Trilokpuri brings to fore the tensions that have been brewing for some time.

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Indian connection

Outreach and awareness

The experience of an Indian doctor, Kalyani Gomathinayagam, who went to Liberia as part of the Medicins Sans Frontieres group in Africa.

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Gabriel Atencio Ruiz

Hero and human

The Colombian-born artist Gabriel Atencio Ruiz brings the South American hero Simon Bolivar to us in flesh and blood.

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Missing the point

The book fails to demonstrate the tools for risk assessment that are broad-based enough to accommodate multiple specialisations and concerns.

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Focus on inequality

Thomas Piketty has brought the popular discussion of inequality and its causes and consequences to the forefront.

Hope for Kadu Gollas

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Warren M. Anderson

Culpable leadership

The fact that Warren M. Anderson (1921-2014), former chairman of UCC, could escape trial highlights India’s incapacity to bring to justice the foreig

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Kiss and chaos

A show of affection in public is a battle yet to be won in Kerala.

Right synthesis

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Terror trail

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Nobel Prize/Chemistry

Microscopy to nanoscopy

The Nobel Prize-winning works of Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner fall under what has come to be called “super-resolution microscopy

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Dilma’s challenges

Dilma Rousseff, who has won a second term as President in a tough election, will have to make changes in style and substance if the curtains are not t

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Court wants law on hartals

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Northern Africa

Uprisings and downturn

The wave of Tahrir has crashed hard. Libya spins into chaos, Egypt into the vice of military power, while Tunisia voted in the social classes that ha

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Fait accompli?

Narendra Modi claims that bringing back black money stashed abroad is an “article of faith” for him, but it remains to be seen whether the NDA governm

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Interview: Harsh Vardhan, Union Health Minister

‘We are not taking any chances’

Interview with Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.

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An eye on elections

Ebola in America

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Heritage trail

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Seeing red about going green

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Fall of a strongman

Blaise Compaore’s ouster as President in a popular uprising has left a political vacuum as the opposition is against a military ruler.

Letters to the Editor

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What is Sufism?

Rooted in the Quran, Sufism is the quest for the Divine within man. There is a rich record of interaction between Sufis and Hindus, a large number of

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Orgy of myth making

With a BJP government at the Centre, rewriting history and suppressing alternative points of view seem to be the order of the day.

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