Dispatches

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces $150 million investment as Covid-related public health aid

Two post-vaccination deaths in Telangana, one in Andhra Pradesh; adverse events committees’ reports awaited on possible cause

Only Rs.1 crore allocated in 2019-20 under North East Industrial Development Scheme, reveals report

Dustin Poirier targets Lightweight title after shock win over Conor McGregor at UFC 257

Mamata refuses to speak in a programme with Modi, after being greeted by chants of Jai Shri Ram

Police grant permission for Elgar Parishad event to be held on January 30

Popular bhajan singer Narendra Chanchal dies at the age of 80

Parliamentary committee arrives in Kashmir to “build confidence”

More militiants killed in Jammu & Kashmir in 2020 than in previous two years points to an uptick in militancy and recruitment

Five persons dead in fire at Serum Institute in Pune, COVID vaccine production unaffected

The Nation

Interview: Prakash Karat

‘Our stress is on the widest unity against authoritarianism’

Jipson John Jitheesh P.M.

Interview with Prakash Karat, former general secretary of the CPI(M).

Biological warfare experiment

Biological warfare experiment in India and the curious case of yellow fever mosquitoes

P.K. Rajagopalan

Farmers' protest

Farmers digging in their heels at protest sites

T.K. Rajalakshmi

‘If APMC mandis go, MSP will vanish’

T.K. Rajalakshmi

RIVER SAND MINING

The Madras High Court seeks fresh profiling of Tamiraparani river sands and finds the extent of illegal sand quarrying alarming

Ilangovan Rajasekaran

Online education

Digital divide deprives have-nots of proper online education

Rama Kant Agnihotri

How a Supreme Court judgment brought back the sedition law in India

Defence Pension

General Bipin Rawat’s proposals to increase retirement age and slash pension benefits for armed forces face criticism

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Congress seeks to beat the BJP at its Hindutva game in Chhattisgarh

In a bid to retain power and be one up on the BJP, the Congress in Chhattisgarh is ...

NFHS Round 5 data

Latest NFHS data reveal high levels of anaemia across nation

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Data from the latest round of the National Family Health Survey show disturbing trends in ...

Lawyer’s office raided arbitrarily by Delhi Police

The police raid on the premises of an advocate who represents several of the North-East ...

Defence Ministry

The rising cost of the defence pension bill

THE Union Budget 2020-21 highlighted the rising cost of the defence pension bill. While ...

Tablighi Jamaatis' acquittal shows evidence of innocence

The acquittal of Tablighi Jamaat members from abroad nails the widespread lie that they ...

Crimes against women

Women’s organisations in Maharashtra want a holistic approach, not the Shakti Bill

Anupama Katakam

The Maharashtra government defers the Shakti Bill, a proposed law on crimes against women ...

Kapila Vatsyayan and the IGNCA

When Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, the cultural studies scholar and institution builder, passed ...

COVID-19 Update

Safety concerns delay vaccine approval in India

R. Ramachandran

No vaccine has yet been approved for public use in India on account of inadequate data on ...

COVID-19 patients are being treated with drugs such as itolizumab even though there is insufficient evidence on their efficacy against the disease

Divya Trivedi Siddhartha Das Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Some pharma companies appear to be using the ongoing pandemic as an excuse to bypass some ...

BJP-ruled States once again raise the bogey of love jehad

T.K. Rajalakshmi

BJP-ruled States once again raise a battle cry against ‘love jehad’ despite several ...

Protest against Farm laws

State governments in Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan get their acts together and pass amended farm Bills in their State Assemblies

T.K. Rajalakshmi

The Congress governments in Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan introduce amended farms ...

Punjab farmers' agitation

Despite the Central government's strong-arm tactics, farmers stand their ground against new farm laws

Ziya Us Salam Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Despite economic distress, tragic deaths of fellow fighters and the Central government’s ...

‘What is the ‘crime’ I’m supposed to have committed?’

“During the past three decades I have tried to identify myself with the Adivasi People and ...

Attacks on foresters increase across the country during lockdown

Attacks on foresters by encroachers and the timber mafia have increased during the ...

COVID-19 Update

Uttar Pradesh and COVID management: A case of misplaced priorities

The management of the COVID pandemic in Uttar Pradesh leaves much scope for improvement ...

COVID-19 Update

Karnataka: Fearing the worst

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Karnataka stands second only to Maharashtra in terms of the number of cases, and with both ...

COVID-19 Update

Odisha: A decreasing trend

Odisha seems to be slowly winning the battle against COVID as fewer fresh cases get ...

COVID-19 Update

West Bengal: Puja in the time of pandemic

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

West Bengal stares at a possible surge in COVID cases after the Durga Puja celebrations, ...

COVID-19 Update

Chhattisgarh: A late upsurge

Purnima S. Tripathi

As Chhattisgarh grapples with a sudden upsurge in the number of COVID-19 cases, the State ...

COVID-19 Update

Andhra Pradesh: ‘Past the peak’

A drop in the number of daily infections and test positivity rate, combined with a rise in ...

COVID-19 Update

Telangana: Doubts about data

Amid allegations by the opposition that the State government had mismanaged the pandemic, ...

COVID-19 Update

Assam: Caution to the wind

Sushanta Talukdar

Political rallies and official functions, along with large gatherings at UIDAI centres for ...

COVID-19 Update

Kerala: In a vulnerable position

R. Krishnakumar

The big concern for the State is whether, despite the government’s best efforts, the sharp ...

COVID-19 Update

Maharashtra: Pandemic fatigue?

Even as the Maharashtra government is acutely aware that it will not be able to prevent ...

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