Their Lordships have suddenly discovered that 383 Urdu and Persian words used in police reports are incomprehensible to the public — even to persons filing the report Hindi movie buffs who like crime dramas may well be aware of words like Saboot (evidence), Anjam (result), Jama Talashi (personal search), Hirasat (custody), Gair Kanooni (illegal), Mujrim […]

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RO companies are members of the organisation that declared Delhi’s water toxic. In an apparent conflict of interest, some of these companies are fighting an NGT order that prohibits the use of water purifiers in certain situations The Bureau of Indian Standards is currently under the radar for an ambiguous tapwater study that rated Delhi […]

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A 69-year-old patient with multiple benign bone tumours, called osteochondromas, has been successfully treated by a team of surgeons in fortis, Shalimar Bagh Doctors at Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, successfully treated a 69-year-old patient suffering from a rare knee condition, ‘hereditary multiple exostosis’. A condition in which multiple benign bone tumours called osteochondromas develop at […]

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…especially in this polluted environment, says Dr Rashmi Sharma, consultant dermatologist at Fortis, Vasant Kunj Over 6.5 million deaths globally every year are attributed to air pollution. That comes to an astonishing figure of 18,000 deaths a day! This figure is comparable to the deaths occurring on account of major illnesses. There are several air […]

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BR Ambedkar’s exhortation to Dalits – Educate, Agitate, Organise – is given context and meaning in this anthology of poetry and stories Growing up, I had seen the world through a casteist lens. To be more specific, I viewed classmates who got admission through reservation as ‘lesser students’ because being upper caste, I was building […]

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The Bureau of Indian Standards conducted a study on drinking water which placed Delhi at the bottom. CPCb, experts question its accuracy VEENA NAIR @patriot_talks   A study by the Bureau of Indian Standards that tested the quality of piped drinking water across the country stirred controversy when it rated Delhi as having some of […]

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In their book Good Economics Hard times, abhijit Banerjee and esther Duflo attempt to present a nuanced view of things, instead of the simplistic analysis that dominates the media today One of the challenges that I constantly encounter as someone who primarily makes a living writing on economics is to explain nuance to an audience […]

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The technique of trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is now being used to loosen cocaine’s nasty grip on addicts It is difficult to quantify the totality of human potential lost every year to addictions. This includes behavioural ones such as gambling, video gaming, shopping, incessant internet surfing as well as maligned substance abuse dependencies — a […]

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