Specials

Shaunak Ghosh -June 19, 2020

Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide took me back to the days where I too slipped into depression and even thought of ending my life at several points of time On Sunday, just as I finished lunch and grabbed my phone, a number of messages flashed on my phone screen. All of them had just one line […]

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MAYANK JAIN PARICHHA -June 12, 2020

Social media outrage over the death of a pregnant elephant cannot translate into better conservation unless stringent measures are taken to ensure the protection of natural habitat The recent death of a pregnant elephant after eating a pineapple stuffed with firecrackers shocked the nation. This issue received global attention on social media, with people from […]

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Janhavi Prasada -June 12, 2020

As farmers meet our most basic needs and untouchability reigns supreme, we are getting adequate time to reflect on what we have done to Nature. All of which were crucial factors in the worldview father of the nation We Indians, especially the educated and influential, seem to have lost our values as we speed our […]

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Ayush Tiwari -June 12, 2020

In the US, the authorities feel compelled to investigate and even apologise for an assault on mediapersons. Here, such complaints go nowhere After a black man named George Floyd, 46, was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25, thousands of Americans poured into the streets to protest against racial injustice. The […]

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Ayush Tiwari -June 12, 2020

FICCI and a Hindi news channel have objected to new draft guidelines that empower the union home ministry to revoke a channel’s security clearance On April 30 this year, during the third phase of the nationwide lockdown, the information and broadcasting ministry released new draft guidelines for uplinking and downlinking TV channels. In an attached […]

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Mihir Srivastava -June 12, 2020

Women-led governments have done much better in the trying times of the pandemic, displaying decisive leadership and commanding trust of the nation “I did a little dance,” said Jacinda Ardern, 39-year-old Prime Minister of New Zealand when she was informed that no new cases were reported, nor are there any active cases of Covid-19 in […]

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Sashikala VP -June 12, 2020

Joining the dots of the trial of CAA protestors and two Bills in Parliament, a disturbing picture emerges of the ability of the government to invade the privacy of individuals charges with various crimes The visuals that emerged on 15 December last year were disturbing. The government had just a few days before successfully passed […]

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Sashikala VP -June 12, 2020

Like the Chinese app Zoom which allows breach of data security, the Aarogya Setu app is causing concern among internet privacy watchdogs At first, it seemed as if the Zoom app, which boasted of 300 million daily users, was a good way to keep in touch for large swathes of the world’s population under lockdown. […]

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