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Do We Really Know Why COVID-19 Spikes In Some Places?
][ Chennai: About 10 months, nine million cases and over 130,000 deaths later, India does not yet know enough about why the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 affected whom it did, and how it did...
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How Pandemic Is Pushing Women Out Of Jobs In UP
][ New Delhi: Vidya Kaushal, 22, trained for six months as a beauty entrepreneur before she set up her own salon, ‘She’, in her hometown of Jagdishpur in central Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district....
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COVID-19: Insurers Are Denying Policies To Disabled Despite Govt Strictures
][ New Delhi: Abishek Muthian, a startup coach from Coimbatore, runs a blog on which he has uploaded many hours of phone conversations and several emails with call centre and back-office agents of...
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Why India Can’t Match China’s Net-Zero Emissions Pledge
][ New Delhi: India will not only meet its climate commitments but is also set to overachieve, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on November 22, 2020, speaking at a side event at the 15th summit of the...
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India’s Disadvantaged Lack Nutrition, Except We Don’t Know How Much
][ Bengaluru and Delhi: India’s national nutrition-specific programmes reach various social groups nearly equally, data show, and differences between uptake and delivery for all groups are small too....
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Workers Spend Money To Collect MGNREGS Wages
][ Bengaluru: Workers in India’s rural jobs programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), faced numerous delays and hurdles in accessing their wages, a three-state...
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‘Fear, Distrust Behind Punjab Farmers’ Protests’
][ Bengaluru: “It is more about the changes in the ‘social contract’ between the farmers and the Union government that is the root cause of fear,” said Sukhpal Singh, professor and former chairperson,...
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Why Farmers Are Worried About New Laws; It’s The History
][ The new farm laws that aim to double farmers’ income in two years by deregulating agricultural markets may further widen the inequalities in the sector, shows our analysis of similar legislations...
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COVID Shows Health Systems Can’t Handle Climate Crisis
][ New Delhi: India saw the second highest number of heat-related deaths in the world among those over 65 years of age in 2018. At an estimated 31,000 deaths, India was right behind China which had an...
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How Official Data Miss Details On Half Of India’s Citizens
][ Mumbai: Lack of sex-disaggregated data and other gender-related gaps in Indian government’s official data sources is making it difficult to track issues such as girls’ and women’s employment, asset...
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Is COVID-19 Vaccine A Public Or Private Good?
][ Mumbai: The UK has issued emergency-use authorisation to administer the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, and over 50 hospitals are expected to begin vaccinations this week. A second...
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