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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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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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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: Comedian sings Ed Sheeran song in the style of artists ranging from Sonu Nigam to Kumar Sanu
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Watch: Woman holds abdominal plank position for over four and half hours
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Watch: Kuno National Park posts video to celebrate cheetah cub Mukhi’s first birthday
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Watch: Migrant workers travel in train toilet owing to unavailability of seats
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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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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‘Patna Shuklla’ review: A competently argued legal drama
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‘Inspector Rishi’ review: A superbly crafted battle between fact and fable
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‘Alibaba Aani Chalishitle Chor’ review: A lightweight study of modern marriage
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic
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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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Tennis, Miami Masters: Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden through to the final
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Badminton, Spain Masters Super 300: Crasto-Ponnappa, Sindhu move into quarter-finals in Madrid
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IPL 2024: Riyan Parag, bowlers set up win for Rajasthan Royals against Delhi Capitals
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IPL 2024: KKR bring in Allah Ghazanfar as replacement player; RR rope in Keshav Maharaj
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Athletics: Neeraj Chopra to open his 2024 season at Doha Diamond League in May