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‘The study should be repeated’
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 […]
A ready reckoner of our world
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 […]
The promise of Magnetic Medicine
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 […]
Students on the streets
When JNU students tried to march to Parliament, the attention of the whole nation was drawn to the fee hike On November 18, 2019, the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, organised a protest march asking the government to roll back proposed changes in the Draft Hostel Manual, including a hike in the hostel fees. […]
Students clash with media, allege they were ‘harassed, groped’ by cops
Delhi police filed two FIRs in connection with the protests After the events of yesterday’s protest march by students of Jawaharlal Nehru University — when nearly 100 students were detained and several injured during a lathi-charge by the Delhi police — the Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association held a solidarity protest in support of the […]
Nine hotspots spew pollution despite apex court order
Clouds of dust, ongoing construction work in some sites, open dumping of garbage — this isn’t what the supreme court had in mind On November 4, a Supreme Court bench cited 16 “hotspot regions” in the NCR as the source for “major polluting activities” that need to be curtailed. Visits to some of these sites, […]
Robbery gone wrong or ‘accidental killing’?
Praveen Mediratta and his family members Sudesh, Priyanka and Saurabh Kataria were found murdered on November 9 Residents of Sector 7, Faridabad, National Capital Region, are in a state of shock. On the afternoon of November 9, four members of a family were found dead in their home. The bodies of Dr Praveen Mediratta, his […]
‘Media demonised us’
On November 11, Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami hosted a prime time segment on the “chaos and mayhem” created by students of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi “for a mere Rs 290 fee hike”. As the channel flashed the hashtag #JNUFreebies, he asked if “those who want to freeload forever” should be allowed to “hold […]