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A study of 266 studies worldwide, published in 2022, revealed that heat waves were associated with a 11.7 per cent increase in mortality

There is scientific consensus that 2023 was the hottest year ever in the planet’s recorded history. It will get progressively worse as this...

yesterday 10

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K. Srinath Reddy

His pledge to pursue ‘jitni abadi utna haq’ is unconstitutional

RAHUL GANDHI has many admirable qualities. He is a man of extraordinary courage. In the last 10 years, his opponents in the Bharatiya Janata Party...

yesterday 10

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Sudheendra Kulkarni

A decrease in women’s unpaid care work is related to a 10-percentage point increase in women’s labour force participation rate

On Monday, a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud said, “ Participation of women in the workforce is a matter not...

yesterday 10

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Sudeshna Sengupta

Behind student anger in US, three crises — democracy, university, protest

The widespread protests against the war in Gaza across dozens of US university campuses, and the unprecedented crackdowns are a sign of a triple...

yesterday 3

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Patanjali’s potions and Ramdev’s contortions: How wellness gurus take people for a ride

It was time that the Baba’s bluff was called. Yoga guru Ramdev and the company he has founded, and is a face of, have been irresponsible for far...

yesterday 2

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Kaushik Das Gupta

Many officials, trained and subscribing to the Sangh ideology, currently work under various union public services

SEVEN OUT OF 10 ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government come from the Sangh Parivar. Four out of 10 governors are former pracharaks...

yesterday 2

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Sudeshna Sengupta

Congress's manifesto is attacked for envisioning a more just society by those who don't have a problem with handouts to billionaires

The Congress party’s manifesto has ignited a crucial debate on rising inequality in India. As the BJP levels baseless accusations of wealth...

yesterday 10

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Salman Soz

Minority appeasement and social justice cannot coexist

Over the last couple of days, the political discourse is heating up. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled a statement by former PM Manmohan Singh...

previous day 20

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Guru Prakash

The idea that British ‘sovereignty’ is under threat from extra-national forces echoes parts of the Brexit narrative

The government of the United Kingdom has passed its “Rwanda Bill” — it will now become law. Under the Bill, asylum seekers deemed to have...

previous day 10

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Sanjay Srivastava

Just read the manifesto. There is not even a semblance of thought to seize the private wealth of citizens and redistribute it

Much like the Shakespearean play Much Ado about Nothing, the Congress party’s manifesto seems to have incited excitement, intrigue, and disbelief...

previous day 20

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Praveen Chakravarty

If we have to develop as knowledge-driven societies, we need to improve the human capacity to think coherently

Humans are proud of the fact that only we, among all living beings, have the ability to engage in higher-level thinking — “cogito, ergo sum”,...

previous day 20

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Swati Ratna

The BJP’s strongest suit seems to display weakness at least as far as turnouts are concerned

The first and the largest phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections has registered an underwhelming voter turnout of around 66.1 per cent, which is a...

previous day 10

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Shreyas Sardesai

BJP's biggest challenge in this polls is listlessness of its own support base

The current general election, at least until phase one, has been characterised by an odd ennui and silence. This is partly reflected in the...

wednesday 40

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta

The editorial Indian Express didn't write

In its penchant for taking the moral high ground and in issuing calls to action The Indian Express has historically proven to be second to none....

wednesday 20

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Prakash Singh

Joining either NDA or INDIA may have been politically fatal for Mayawati

The politics of the Bahujan Samaj Party and Mayawati remains a mystery to many political analysts and journalists. At times, they over-simplify her...

wednesday 10

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Badri Narayan

There are major flaws in govt’s approach to tackling Naxal problem

Security forces dealt a decisive blow to the Maoists on April 14 in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh, near the Maharashtra border. A joint force of...

wednesday 20

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Prakash Singh

Israel-Iran conflict is going to loom large not just over resolution of Gaza

Six months after the October 7 attack, Israel’s war to eliminate Hamas has resulted in the near-complete destruction of Gaza and a dire...

wednesday 10

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Anju Gupta

The foundations of what Tamil Nadu is today were laid by Kamaraj, Venkataraman and Subramaniam. And they cannot be forgotten

Kumaraswami Kamaraj served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu — Madras State, as it was then called — for nine-and-a-half years, from April 13,...

23.04.2024 10

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R G Chandramogan

India is among the signatories to MLI, recent amendment to the India-Mauritius treaty signals keenness to plug the loophole

Tax treaties are integral to cross-border investment relations as they define the treatment of incomes that arise in one country accruing to a...

23.04.2024 10

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Suranjali Tandon

Resentment towards costs is a big factor in the growing hostility, including violence, against healthcare workers

It’s a scary experience that you have certainly heard of. A sudden health crisis results in hospitalisation. Several tests, drugs and procedures...

23.04.2024 20

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Sanjay Nagral

The CBI, often under scrutiny for alleged political bias, operates within a framework of independence and impartiality

In Indian politics, accusations often fly thick and fast, shaping public discourse and perceptions. One particularly persistent allegation levelled...

23.04.2024 4

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Bijal Vachharajani

Burning fossil fuels has made us all pyromaniacs, culpable in our individual and collective way, but especially to the next generation

Whenever we run out of things to say, it’s customary to turn towards the weather to rescue us. “So hot.” “Too stuffy.” “Look, it’s...

23.04.2024 40

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Bijal Vachharajani

Come rain or prachand bahumat, a healthy sense of self-deprecatory humour is essential for a writer

“There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who extrapolate from insufficient data” goes the popular joke. Writers of fiction, I think,...

22.04.2024 2

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Maithreyi Karnoor

It creates a fertile ground for injustice and inequality to take root and perpetuates a cycle of disenfranchisement

Every single vote is a thread that weaves together the fabric of our democratic society. However, what India faces today is voter apathy or...

22.04.2024 5

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M. Venkaiah Naidu

Those who are spelling doom for democracy in India have unwittingly reduced themselves to agents of partisan politics

Voting is now underway in the largest democratic exercise on the planet. To put the scale of the Indian electoral process into perspective it is...

22.04.2024 20

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Shashi Shekhar Vempati

Turmoil affects the security of large Indian diaspora based in Gulf region and there is additional risk of piracy and hostage-taking

Iran’s promised retaliation to the Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus came in the early hours of Sunday morning. Swarms of...

22.04.2024 2

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Sanjay Bhattacharyya

The amended rules will prolong the life of drugs on account of frivolous patenting, increase prices, make lives difficult for patients

A good health system requires a constant supply of quality affordable medicines. Medicines constitute nearly 50 per cent of the health costs...

22.04.2024 30

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Anand Grover

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