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Doctors’ stir over NEET PG courses picks pace after police clash
December 29, 2021
Striking resident doctors decide to continue their month-long agitation, rejecting an appeal by Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, who met with a delegation of representatives of the doctors on Tuesday and urged them to call off the stir, in view of rapidly rising Covid-...
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Counting costs of climate catastrophe: USD 170 bn in 2021
December 28, 2021
A report published by British charity Christian Aid says that the 10 biggest extreme weather events in 2021 caused damage exceeding USD 170 billion, while claiming more than 1075 lives and displacing 1.3 million people worldwide. The charity goes on to say that this is the highes...
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No Way Home trumps Omicron fears
December 27, 2021
Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios, the producers of the latest superhero film, Spiderman: No Way Home announced that over the film crossed the USD 1 billion mark over the Christmas weekend, and was thus the first billion-dollar-grossing film of the pandemic era and also one of t...
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Bill to raise minimum age of marriage for girls disconnected from reality: Activists
December 25, 2021
Since Union Women and Child Development minister Smriti Irani moved the Child Marriage Amendment Bill 2021 in Lok Sabha, opinions on social media have been widely divided on the utility of the amendment. Since the introduction of the bill, it has faced criticism from the oppositi...
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Meeting with PMO: Election Commission has failed India
December 22, 2021
For decades, the Prime Minister’s Office in India has functioned as the most important body in the executive, often far more powerful than even the senior most cabinet ministers. In many ways, it is important for the Prime Minister to have an empowered PMO, not only to help the...
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Goa beckons tourists for Christmas and New Year
December 22, 2021
Christmas and New Year have emerged as an important vacation time for families across India as schools and colleges shut down, proving parents with the perfect excuse to set off with their children for holidays in destinations across the country and increasingly around the world....
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Indians spend most time on mobile phones
November 13, 2021
With the ease of internet access and the lockdowns imposed since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the time spent on a mobile screen has risen sharply across the world, but more so in India which is now amongst the top users of mobile apps, with close to 5 hours every day
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Delhi’s transgenders lend helping hand to Yamuna clean up
October 25, 2021
On Saturday, Delhi-based NGO Aarohan came together with volunteers from AIIMS, Delhi Police and organisations like ISKCON and the Lahar Foundation to conduct a cleanup of the Yamuna River at ITO Chhat Ghat. The cleanup is an annual event and this year Aarohan, along with i...
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Dussehra in Delhi: Artisans complain of poor sales of Ravana’s effigies
October 12, 2021
The most commonly recognised image of Dussehra is the sight of effigies of the demon king Ravana and his brothers Meghnad and Kumbhakarna going up in flames as the Hindu deity Lord Rama and his brother Lakshman shoot fire arrows at them. Within a matter of minutes, amidst loud ch...
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India joins global craze for NFTs
October 8, 2021
While the global attention seems to be focused on the craze for cryptocurrencies which are again back at new highs, another player is making a quieter but significant surge, riding on the back of one of cryptocurrencies. Meet NFT or Non-Fungible Token. Introduced in 2017, NFT is ...
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When able-bodied actors portray disabled characters
August 25, 2021
In 2021, Indian cinema continues to struggle with many aspects of representation. Be it the LGBTQ+ community, women, or minorities, audiences have had a mixed bag. But one section of the society, whose portrayal time and again the film industry has gotten wrong, is the differentl...
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Vaccine passports: Bad idea with terrible timing traumatises tourism industry
August 24, 2021
For a long while now, international travellers have been used to finding different queues at immigration counters at various airports, especially in developed world, queues that classify arrivals by origin of their country. Most of the rich countries are clubbed together and then...
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