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Transparency Critical In COVID-19 Vaccine Trials: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
][ Mumbai: Administering a vaccine to all Indians for COVID-19 when it becomes available is a “complex ask”, and needs infrastructure such as cold-chain technologies and logistics, and specialised...
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Over 60% Of Deaths In Police Custody Are Within 24 Hours Of Arrest
][ New Delhi: On June 19, 2020, traders P Jayaraj and his son J Bennicks were arrested and detained in Sathankulam police station in southern Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district for allegedly violating...
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Bihar’s Women Win Against Alcohol But Lose To Illicit Liquor, Drugs
][ Rohtas: Her husband tried his best to dissuade her but Sakshi Devi, 30, had made up her mind. Armed with sticks, vessels and brooms, nearly 150 determined women waited outside her home in a remote...
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‘Fast Drug Development Is New Normal Post-COVID’
][ Mumbai: When the COVID-19 pandemic comes under control, “we are not going back to February of 2020”, in how we control other diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, says Trevor Mundel, the...
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‘Let The Men Say What They Have To, I Do What I Have To’
][ Patna: The first time she heard of a woman leading a village in Bihar as its mukhiya (head), Ramvati Devi (name changed), 50, was astounded. “I couldn’t even comprehend how a woman could lead. How...
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How Reservation In Private Schools Isn’t Working For Poor Children
][ Mumbai: It was Sharadchandra Kale’s dream to get his six-year-old daughter into grade I at a neighbourhood private school this year. The 33-year-old scheduled caste labourer from west Mumbai suburb...
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How Patients Living With Mental Illness, Hospitals Coped With COVID-19 Crisis
][ New Delhi: For 14 years, Meenakshi Raman (name changed) had been taking her younger sister, 46-year-old Shruti (name changed), for treatment to the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences...
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Poorest Offenders Worst Hit In Bihar’s Liquor Crackdown
][ Patna: In the dead of night, Rajesh (name changed) visits a graveyard in his town in central Bihar four times a week. “A desolate place like that is safe to receive my weekly consignment of...
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‘Schools In Covid-Free Areas Must Be Kept Open, Even If Partially’
][ Mumbai: “If the pandemic has taught us one big lesson, it is to strengthen our public health system,” said Poonam Mutterja, executive director of the Population Foundation of India (PFI), a...
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Pollution Regulators Misinformed, Low On Motivation: Study
][ New Delhi: An acute shortage of technical experts and other staff has reduced central and state pollution regulators to mere advisory bodies, leaving them unable to enforce air quality standards, a...
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AYUSH Ministry’s COVID ‘Remedies’ Lack Evidence, Add To Confusion
][ New Delhi: A 65-year-old man in Mumbai was taking ayurvedic remedies for weeks prior to testing positive for COVID-19. Even when his symptoms worsened and he had trouble breathing, he was reluctant...
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Kerala On Top, Delhi Near Bottom in New Migrant Policy Index
][ Mumbai: The states of Kerala, Goa, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh have been most successful in integrating migrant workers, while crucial migrant receiving states, including Delhi, have done poorly,...
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Public Voices Increasingly Ignored In Environmentally Sensitive Projects
][ New Delhi: Petitions against clearances given to two oil and gas exploration projects in northern Assam’s Tinsukia district, currently being heard at the National Green Tribunal, underline the...
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Rajasthan’s Migrant Workers Adapt In Changing Job Market
][ New Delhi: At 7 a.m. every day, Vala Ram Gameti, 32, sets off from his home at Koviya village in southern Rajasthan to the nearest market, about 3 km away. He takes an hour for the day’s...
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‘Virus Particles Piggyback On PM 2.5 Leading To Deadly Cocktail’
][ Mumbai: The record high number of new COVID-19 cases being reported in Delhi is a “direct effect of air pollution”, says Arvind Kumar, chairperson, Centre for Chest Surgery at Sir Gangaram Hospital...
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Odisha Migrant Workers Return To Gruelling Shifts, Poor Wages
][ New Delhi: In mid-October, machinist Bipin Ramesh Sahu, 38, was flown back to Surat from his southern Odisha village by his former employer, a textile mill owner. Sahu, among the 6.7 million migrant...
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‘COVID Got Global Attention Because It Affected Rich Countries’
][ New Delhi: India, with 2.4 million tuberculosis (TB) cases in 2019, has the most cases (27%) in the world. With attention focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, resources from government TB programmes...
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India’s 10,000 Farmers-Collective Plan Needs Funds, Professional Management
][ Bengaluru: India’s plan to collectivise and support millions of small and marginal farmers into profitable business groups may fail without significant reforms in the existing funding and support...
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How Better Data Could Help Prevent Custodial Deaths
][ New Delhi: In the last 10 years, the majority (69%) of 1,004 deaths in police custody have been attributed to either illness and natural causes (40%), or to alleged suicide (29%), in National Crime...
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‘Patent Battles Could Choke COVID-19 Drugs Pipeline’
][ New Delhi: India and South Africa are currently leading a call at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for intellectual property (IP) exemptions on items like diagnostic kits, vaccines, medicines,...
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