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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.
Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com
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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.
Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com
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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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Opinion: What Nidhi Razdan phishing case and Arnab Goswami chats tell us about Indian media today
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‘Please don’t follow me now’: Actor Rhea Chakraborty asks paparazzi when spotted in Mumbai
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When did Bhishma die? A reading of the Mahabharata reveals a startling possibility
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Saba Naqvi: Does ‘Mirzapur’ defame UP? If you’d met the dons I have, you’d know how bad it really is
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Mamata Banerjee refuses to speak at Modi event for Netaji after ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chants
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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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Watch: Protesters calling for Alexei Navalny’s release fill up Moscow’s Pushkin Square
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‘Check out my official regal merch’: Watch this amusing parody of The Queen from ‘Death to 2020’
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Eco India, Episode 96: Is environmentally-friendly food-for-all still a distant dream?
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Watch: The arduous journey of a lorry driver struggling with endless delays due to Brexit
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Watch: Hilarious video of Soviet soldiers supposedly dancing to Nirvana's ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
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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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‘Metro Park 2’ trailer: The NRI Patels from New Jersey is back
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‘Madam Chief Minister’ review: A woman rises to power and falls while trying to hold on to it
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‘The White Tiger’ review: A driver murders his way up the food chain
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‘Aapkey Kamrey Mein Koi Rehta Hai’ review: A ghost teaches a bunch of bachelors a lesson
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‘Jeet Ki Zid’ review: A tribute to a soldier’s bravery and persistence
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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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All I had in mind was to add runs for India: Ravindra Jadeja on batting with broken thumb in Sydney
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ISL: Ten-man FC Goa hold Kerala Blasters to strengthen place in the top four
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FA Cup: Gabriel scores own goal as Southampton knock out holders Arsenal in fourth round
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Thailand Open: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa go down fighting in mixed doubles semis
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Second Test: James Anderson’s six-for keeps England in the hunt against Sri Lanka on day two