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Evening prayers by the banks of the Ganga on the occasion of Mahashivratri on March 11 at the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar. Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, the Uttarakhand government has issued a new standard operating procedure to contain the spread of the virus.

Second wave of COVID-19 in India

Even as India is in the throes of a second wave, having failed to use testing as a means of checking the spread of the pandemic, all that the Central

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

Sitaram Yechury: ‘The BJP should understand that without States, there is no India’

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

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The Tablighi Jamaat Centre at Nizamuddin, Delhi in March 2020. According to the new rules pertaining to OCIs, members of the Tablighi Jamaat will need a special permit to undertake religious activities.

New rules for Overseas Citizens of India targeting certain communities and categories of employment

A recent notification by the Home Ministry relating to rights of Overseas Citizens of India comes with a baggage of conditions, some of which are dire

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Justice S.A. Bobde, Chief Justice of India. His controversial remarks were in the form of oral observations while hearing a case.

Activists denounce 'patriarchal and regressive' statements by judicial institutions

Activists denounce casual observations made by judicial institutions in cases of violence against women as patriarchal and regressive.

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A senior citizen being administered the COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Mumbai on March 4. On March 1, 2021, a new phase of India’s vaccination programme was launched targeting those above the age of 60 and those above 45 and with comorbidities.

Is India on the verge of a second COVID wave?

The steady nationwide surge in cases, even as the vaccination drive is under way, has raised legitimate concerns that India may be on the verge of a s

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Farmers gather at an expressway near Kundli border in Haryana, on March 6 to mark the 100th day of the ongoing protest against the farm laws.

The farmers’ protest completes a hundred days and forges new solidarities across castes and communities

The ongoing farmers’ protest at the Delhi borders, which recently completed 100 days, has not only spread to the rural hinterland but also forged new

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Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for IT and Communications, and Prakash Javadekar, I&B Minister, at a conference to announce new rules for social media companies and a code of ethics for OTT streaming platforms, in New Delhi on February 25.

With new rules for digital media, the noose tightens

Jittery over the swelling tide of online dissent, the government issues new rules that give it overarching powers to control digital media under the g

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Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot with Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot, addressing a press conference on the BJP's attempts to destabilise his government in Jaipur, on June 12, 2020

Close shave in Rajasthan

The Congress saved its government in Rajasthan last year, but as long as there are methods to skirt the Tenth Schedule, a government with a thin major

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Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, and Prakash Javadekar, Minister for Information and Broadcasting, address a press conference where they unveiled the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, on February 25.

Modi government tightens controls over OTT, online news media, social media; critics call it proxy regulation of news media

At a press conference on February 25, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, and Prakash Javadekar, Minister for In

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A general view of the damaged Dhauliganga hydroelectric power project in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand on February 10.

Chamoli flash flood: A wake-up call

Geologists and glaciologists see the recent landslide and flash flood in Uttarakhand as part of inevitable natural processes given the fragility of th

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‘Our scientists have not found any evidence of a glacial lake in the region so far’

Interview with Kalachand Sain, Director, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology.

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Sarwan Singh Pandher

Sarwan Singh Pandher: ‘The government has to first create an environment conducive to talks’

Interview with Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Punjab.

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