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Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com
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Covid-19 held up 5.8 lakh elective surgeries in India. Here’s why further delay should be avoided
Over time, elective surgeries will become emergency surgeries, increasing complications and mortality.
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India’s Covid-19 lockdown may cause 38 million job losses in the travel and tourism industry
The sector employs 12.75% of the country’s workforce.
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Indian households’ ineffective waste management is putting sanitation workers at risk of Covid-19
Sanitation workers, like frontline health workers, should be provided with personal protective equipment.
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Trending
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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Portraits of India’s people by a Flemmish artist who lived on the margins of 18th-century Calcutta
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Congress to decide Indian cricket team based on religion, claims PM Modi
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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Memoir: A journalist remembers the 1960s and how the Naxal movement was portrayed in books and films
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Coronavirus pandemic: India should wake up to the need for prison reforms
The prisons are overcrowded and medical staff is under-trained.
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100 Indians died in police custody in 2017, yet nobody has been convicted
Custodial deaths increased by 9% in one year from 2016, as per NCRB data.
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A new bill makes surrogacy illegal for single parents, homosexuals and live-in couples
Passed by the Lok Sabha in August, the new bill allows only infertile couples, married for more than five years to opt for altruistic surrogacy.
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Video
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations
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Eco India: A new buzzword for a protein rich animal feed: Insect farming
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Rain-related calamities have killed 2,000 Indians every year since 2016
Bihar, Kerala, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh account for 51% of all deaths.
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The rise in India’s tiger population is only half the story. The other half is less rosy
A fourth of India’s tigers lived outside protected areas in 2015, a situation made worse by encroachments.
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The Mumbai Fire Brigade gets one emergency call every day to report a structural collapse
‘Safety is not a law, it is a culture.’ That’s where Maximum City falls short.
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The Reel
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How the fantasy film ‘Pathala Bhairavi’ heavily influenced Telugu cinema
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Watch: Manoj Bajpayee’s hundredth movie ‘Bhaiyya Ji’ is a revenge drama
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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How actor Shahana Goswami flies under the radar and above the competition
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‘Presumed Innocent’ trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal plays a lawyer accused of murdering his lover
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While Sri Lanka grows richer, India remains a lower-middle-income nation
India is the only BRICS country in the World Bank category.
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Lower attendance, fewer debates: How celebrity MPs fared in the outgoing Lok Sabha
They utilised more of their constituency development funds on average than their fellow MPs, though.
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More than 2,000 people were booked for drunk driving in India’s big cities on New Year’s eve
Between 2008 and 2017, 76,446 people died in 211,405 road accidents nationwide due to consumption of alcohol or drugs, data show.
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The Field
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Badminton: India to host World Junior Badminton Championships 2025 in Guwahati
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Athletics: Neeraj Chopra to compete in India for first time since Tokyo Olympics
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IPL 2024: Delhi Capitals stay in playoff hunt with win over Rajasthan Royals in high-scoring clash
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Boxing, Asian U22 & Youth C’ships: Paris Olympic-bound Preeti among seven gold medallists for India
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Football: Odisha FC to compete in the inaugural AFC Women’s Champions League