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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.
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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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US charges Indian man for alleged plot to murder Sikh separatist in New York
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Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu likely to receive very heavy rainfall amid possible cyclone
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J&K: NIT Srinagar student booked for alleged derogatory post about Prophet Muhammad
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How Uttar Pradesh’s halal ban has plunged the processed food industry into chaos
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Pithora is for the gods, not for products, say Adivasis
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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: Journalist-satirist parodies TV newsroom discussions on election results day
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Watch: Australian teacher explains how to master English pronunciation and talk like Shashi Tharoor
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On TV: Reporter crawls through roadside pipe to show how trapped workers were rescued in Uttarakhand
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IFFI Goa: Michael Douglas tries the ‘Naatu Naatu’ hookstep, delivers Amitabh Bachchan’s dialogue
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Caught on camera: Panic after passenger jumps out of emergency exit of plane at US airport
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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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A new Annapurna Devi film could be the last word on the recluse – or the start of a new quest
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How Jeo Baby’s risky ‘Kaathal’ fell into place: ‘Once Mammootty agreed, everything became easy’
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Watch: Manoj Bajpayee stars in survival drama ‘Joram’
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Start the week with a film: Darbhanga blues in ‘Pokhar Ke Dunu Paar’
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Eye Spy: What doing the ‘dunki’ means – and where we first heard the term
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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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England tour of India: Shreyanka Patil stars as India A beat England A in first T20I
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Boxing, Men’s National C’ships: Shiva Thapa, Amit Panghal cruise into quarter-finals on day four
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Badminton, Syed Modi International: Unnati Hooda, Priyanshu Rajawat advance; Kidambi Srikanth exits
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Cricket: India head coach Rahul Dravid and other team support staff’s contracts extended by BCCI
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Australia tour of India: Glenn Maxwell century keeps visitors alive in T20I series