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Migrant deaths reach new highs in 2021
January 3, 2022
About a fortnight ago, the International Organisation for Migration, the United Nations body in charge of migrants and their interests, said that over 160 migrants had died off the coast of Libya as they were trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach Italian coasts. Last we...
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Zee and Sony merger to raise heat in television space
January 2, 2022
Seeking to consolidate its entertainment businesses, sprawled across the world, Japanese conglomerate Sony had zeroed in on India as a market where it would either seek to be in the top three players or exit the market entirely. As part of this exercise, Sony had been aggressivel...
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Omicron: Modi sleepwalks taking India towards 3rd wave
December 30, 2021
If one scans the headlines from the past two weeks, there have been two different kinds of stories that have dominated the national news. One is a political rally, or an inauguration of a multi-billion rupee project by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, preferably somewhere in Uttar P...
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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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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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Stand-up comedians get digital boost in India
August 21, 2021
Comedians have for long been popular in Indian film and television industry, with a mass appeal for comedy on the silver screen as well as the idiot box. Besides the stalwart comedians of the films, such as Johnny Walker or Mehmood or Kader Khan, there have also been numerous com...
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