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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.
Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com
Trending
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The unsolved mystery of the fake PMO officer in Kashmir
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Does India really benefit from NRIs heading the world’s new-age empires?
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How West Bengal’s changing political dynamics could hurt the Trinamool Congress
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A journalist examines the similarities and the differences between Indians and Pakistanis today
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Calls for an environment-friendly Ramzan revive Islam’s long tradition of caring for the planet
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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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TV channel: ‘Will the TMC accept the Congress’s leadership?’ TMC MP: ‘You never ask Modi questions’
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Watch: Crocodile interrupts tourists during picnic, ‘steals’ their cooler box
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Watch: This perfectly camouflaged butterfly can make itself look like a dead leaf
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Watch: British policeman dances with Indians outside Indian High Commission in London
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Watch: Musician Yashraj Mukhate hilariously reimagines ‘Breakup Song’ in 1990s’ Hindi music style
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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 OP Nayyar was one of the original disruptors of Hindi film music
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Watch: The blunder years in ‘School College Ani Life’ starring Tejasswi Prakash, Karan Parab
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‘Ghar Banduk Biryani’ trailer: A chef is caught between security forces and rebels
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Start the week with a film: See the world through a donkey’s eyes in ‘EO’
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‘Rocket Boys’ review: Fuel loss on the way to the Pokhran nuclear test
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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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Football: India earns narrow win over Myanmar in tri-nation opener; Women’s team draw against Jordan
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Sports world daily: Raducanu, Murray lose early at Miami Masters; Man United ownership race heats up
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Swiss Open Super 300: Prannoy beats Shi; Satwik-Chirag, Sindhu progress too but Sen bows out
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Watch, India vs Australia: Kuldeep Yadav dimisses Alex Carey with a superb delivery in Chennai ODI
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ISSF World Cup Bhopal: Sarabjot Singh wins men’s 10m air pistol gold, Vinod Tomar earns bronze