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Dengue patients

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16-10-201540 STORIES

CP Chandrasekhar

Retail investor as anchor

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Syllables for gods

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Counting on Russia

Russia’s military aid and support to the Syrian government, coupled with the refugee influx into Europe, force the U.S. to drop its regime change age

Unregulated sector

Token presence

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The era of excesses

On how a century that began in prolific and meaningful advancement in the arts and literature became an enigma with violence and estrangement in the f

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Gujarat’s internal refugees

The book revisits the Gujarat pogrom on Narendra Modi’s watch and warns of a past that lies behind the success he has achieved.

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Interview: OHCHR spokesperson

‘The findings are independent of political considerations’

Interview with Ravina Shamdasani, OHCHR spokesperson.

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Towards abolition

The Law Commission’s 262nd report recommends swift, irreversible and absolute abolition of the death penalty except in cases of terrorism and waging

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Of a multiplex world

The book is a useful contribution to the subject of world order but does not provide an adequate description of the real world.

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Censoring an epidemic

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For a credible mechanism

The report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Investigation on Sri Lanka calls for a hybrid mechanism involving in

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Fresh perspectives

A definitive study on the contexts and subtexts of the civil wars in South Asia.

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Draft policy on health

Myopic approach

The government’s draft policy on health care lacks the vision to address the issues of the larger majority and succumbs to the pressures that push for

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Swing to the Left

Jeremy Corbyn’s manifesto offers an alternative rooted in fairness, decency and social justice, but to win the next elections, the new Labour Party l

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Higher Education

UGC wants police on campus

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A renewed bid for UNESCO membership

Diphtheria deaths

A blot on the Kerala model

Recent diphtheria deaths in Malappuram are the price we pay for a distorted health development strategy.

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Preventive measures

Delhi’s burden

The Centre’s tight control over revenue restricts Delhi’s spending on public health. The advisories to “intensify” measures to check the breeding of m

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Act of exclusion

The Haryana government postpones local elections after the Supreme Court, in response to a PIL petition, orders a stay of the amendments to the Harya

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Public health in peril

The dengue outbreak in Delhi exposes the total absence of a functional public health care system with an efficient disease surveillance mechanism and

Gujral and Vajpayee on Kashmir

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‘Nation’s mental make-up may suffer grievously’

Irfan Habib, the eminent historian, on how the present government’s large-scale project to saffronise history does not stand rigorous historical scrut

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X-ray universe

Astrosat is the latest instance of the revolution in X-ray astronomy, which, by mapping high-energy phenomena, gives us vital clues about the dynamics

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A stalwart passes away

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Losing battle

The death in controversial circumstances of a woman DSP in Tiruchengode, who was on the case of a murder, brings the functioning of the Tamil Nadu Pol

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Expenditure on health

Retreat of the state

India’s public health expenditure is currently just 1.26 per cent of GDP, and continuous budgetary cuts have left the health infrastructure in a shamb

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Health care and private sector

For private plunder

Notwithstanding the goal of universal health care in the 12th Plan document, the government has reduced its role to merely providing a small part of h

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Love and loss

The Supreme Court intervenes to provide protection to a Jatav family from Uttar Pradesh which is intimidated by members of the Jat community followin

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Livelihood Issues

Grey looms

Poor working and living conditions take a heavy toll on the loom operators of Bhiwandi, the heart of India’s power loom industry.

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The price of regime change

With the large influxes of asylum-seekers into Europe continuing unabated, the refugee issue is now threatening the very concept of European unity.

The media language game

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Europe’s refugee ‘crisis’

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Voices of dissent

Letters to the Editor

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Bose returns

The declassification of the Netaji files by the West Bengal government adds weight to the theory that Subhas Chandra Bose did not die in the 1945 plan

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How to settle the Kashmir issue

In 2007, Pervez Musharraf and Manmohan Singh brought the Kashmir dispute to the very threshold of a settlement. A draft agreement still exists, awaiti

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Public health care

Broken system

The growing spread of disease and the gaping inadequacies in public health care show that the government has to do a lot to achieve the goal of provid

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Manipur in ferment

Two months of protests over laws to regulate non-indigenous people’s entry into and activities in Manipur have affected normal life in the State.

Iboyaima Laithangbam

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Museum of Innocence

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