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‘A corporate-communal nexus has emerged’: Sitaram Yechury

Interview with Sitaram Yechury, general secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist).

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P. Chidambaram: ‘Now, cronyism is a bitter fact’

Interview with P. Chidambaram, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.

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Daily wagers waiting for work at Bhajanpura Chowk in New Delhi on May 31, 2021.

No data, little relief: Panel report exposes government inadequacies

A parliamentary panel report exposes the government’s cluelessness on the extent of job losses caused by the pandemic and its inability to provide ade

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People waiting for the jab outside a vaccination centre in Mumbai on August 19.

Will India be able to avert a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic?

The 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

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Health-care staff attending to a complicated case in a COVID-19 ICU on August 6 at Government Medical College in Malappuram in Kerala. The State has been aggressively testing and vaccinating and undercounting of COVID deaths is reportedly minimal.

The fall and rise of COVID numbers

The number of cases begins to rise again after weeks of showing a declining trend, confirming that the COVID challenge is not over yet.

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At a maternity centre and child care hospital in Panchkula, Haryana, a 2012 picture. The National Population Policy 2020 observed that the spread of literacy, availability of reproductive and child health services, convergence of service delivery at village levels, and improvement in family incomes would lead to the achievement of socio-demographic goals.

Politics dominates the proposed two-child norm in Uttar Pradesh

The proposed two-child norm in Uttar Pradesh goes against the grain of the National Population Policy. But the agenda seems to be about targeting a co

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Blood samples collected as part of the Statewide serosurveillance by the Directorate of Public Health in Chennai on November 11, 2020.

COVID-19 in India: Fourth ICMR survey results show 67.6 per cent seropositivity

The results of the fourth nationwide ICMR survey show unprecedented levels of SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence while the rate of vaccination in Indi

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Mansukh Mandaviya assumes office as the Health Minister, in New Delhi on July 8.

COVID-19 in India: False positivity amidst declining second wave?

The current trend of declining COVID-19 cases and deaths and the positive outlook the government is projecting on the pandemic situation in India are

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Justice V. Gopala Gowda: ‘State alone can be held accountable’

Interview with Justice V. Gopala Gowda, former judge of the Supreme Court of India.

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Justice Madan B. Lokur.

Justice Madan B. Lokur: ‘The special court failed in its duty’

Interview with Justice Madan B. Lokur, retired judge of the Supreme Court of India.

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Health workers aboard a ferry after a vaccination drive at an island in the Sundarbans area of South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal on June 25. At the rate of 87 lakh vaccinations per day, as India recorded on June 21, it would still take over 200 days to inoculate the adult Indian population.

COVID-19: No endgame in sight

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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At the Sawai Man Singh Hospital , Jaipur, Rajasthan, on June 1, a patient recovering from surgery to remove a fungal infection associated with mucormycosis.

COVID-19: Perils of vacuous claims

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

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