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| Aug 13, 2026 | Indian Workers Film Their Own Jobs at $2.62/Hour to Train Robots That Will Replace Them | By Mark Rutherford
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| Nov 15, 2024 | The Battle for Digital Freedom: Wikimedia's Dilemma in India and Bluesky's Ascent | In the digital age, information is power. It flows like water, sometimes clear, sometimes murky. Two recent events highlight the struggles for control over this vital resource. On one side, Wikimedia faces a legal storm in India. On the oth... |
| Nov 12, 2024 | Threatened With A Ban In India, Wikimedia Agrees To Hand Over Personal Information About Wikipedians To Delhi High Court | As Techdirt stories attest, Wikipedia has been attacked in the past for publishing true information that somebody doesn’t like. As well as wanting articles to be censored, those behind such attacks often also demand the names of those who w... |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Was the World’s Largest Election Decided By the Climate Crisis? | 6 Mins Read India’s dramatic election results have confirmed a third term for Narendra Modi, but with a much-weakened mandate – is climate change to blame (or thank) for that?
India stands third in the world for the number of billionaires a... |
| Feb 1, 2024 | 2024 CCNow Awards Are Now Open | Sign up to receive the Climate Beat weekly newsletter in your inbox.
We’re proud to announce that the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards are now open for submissions. Now in its fourth year, the CCNow Awards program honors excellen... |
| Jul 26, 2023 | Bangladesh summons Western envoys after poll violence remarks | Bangladesh’s foreign ministry on Wednesday summoned 13 Western ambassadors after they issued a joint statement against an attack on an independent candidate during a recently-held parliamentary by-election.
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| Jun 1, 2023 | ‘Fight not over’: India rape survivor in fear as attackers jailed | Muzaffarnagar, India – It has been three weeks since two men accused of gang-raping a woman in 2013 were jailed for 20 years – a rare sentencing for sexual assault during a communal riot in India.
Congratulatory calls to celebrate the coura... |
| May 9, 2023 | Tense calm in India’s Manipur where ethnic riots claimed 62 lives | Rioting and ethnic clashes last week in India’s Manipur have killed at least 62 people and displaced 35,000, officials say, as a tense calm prevails across the remote northeastern state.
Manipur’s chief minister, N Biren Singh, told reporte... |
| Apr 24, 2023 | The Global Scroll Chiller Market Was Valued At USD 2.9624 Billion In 2022, Is Projected To Grow At A CAGR Of 3.2% During The Forecast Period 2022 To 2030 | Data By Contrive Datum Insights Pvt Ltd. | |
| Mar 30, 2023 | Prices of specialised medicines for diabetes, BP, arthritis, cancer have risen the most in the last 12 months, reveals LocalCircles survey | From April 1, 2023, the price of a basket of essential medicines could rise significantly due to the annual change in the wholesale price index in 2022 to 12.12%.
This is the highest-ever hike allowed by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing ... |
| Feb 2, 2023 | India’s bulldozer regime is evicting Muslims, killing justice | In the northern Indian city of Haldwani, about 4,000 families faced homelessness in December after the High Court of the state, Uttarakhand, ordered their eviction from land claimed by the Indian Railways.
Most of the families are Muslim, a... |
| Dec 16, 2022 | Why Indians love World Cup football, even without India in it | It is a routine that plays out every four years. Indian football fans get louder and more rambunctious as the World Cup draws nearer, even though India is not part of the tournament.
During every World Cup, huge posters of football icons li... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | World Cup 2022: How Sponsorship Has Become Less About Selling Drinks And More About Geopolitics | Spotlight on Qatar. Shutterstock/Nomi2626 |
| Nov 1, 2022 | Byju's said to have served 'performance notices' to over 5,000 employees | Illustraion: Suneesh
“When you walk inside the office every day, I don’t see a human walking, I see a number. That number is the difference between your target and what you have managed to achieve,” Gaurav Tanna’s manager told him a few wee... |
| Oct 17, 2022 | Families in India Face Ongoing Challenges When Coping With Rare Diseases | Every year, countless families in India struggle to provide care to family members with rare diseases. Until we achieve greater global collaboration and an increased focus on developing orphan drugs, these families will be left facing a har... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | 54% Indians Trust News Received On Whatsapp; 41% Indians Trust News On Facebook – Oxford Study | A Reuters study has found that the Indian population is more trusting of news on WhatsApp.
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| Aug 19, 2022 | IRCTC already makes a lot of money; it wants to make more from your data | IRCTC makes a lot of money from selling train tickets. It made Rs 210 crore from selling 11.58 crore train tickets online last quarter alone. From each of those tickets, it makes a whopping 85% gross margin on commissions. That is not surpr... |
| Jul 5, 2022 | Twitter moves Indian court against content takedown order by govt, report | Team TC 5 Jul, 2022
Twitter has approached a top court in Karnataka with a petition to overturn some of the content takedown requests by the Indian government, reported Reuters on July 5 citing unnamed sources. Twitter has argued that some ... |
| Jul 4, 2022 | This start-up creates ‘green’ water out of thin air and sells it at ₹4 per liter | Capital is pouring into the renewable energy sector, thanks to a growing awareness of climate change.
The industry is expected to grow to $1.9 trillion by 2030 as every aspect of the energy supply chain gets reimagined.
Many clean-tech star... |
| Jun 16, 2022 | Losing IPL Digital Rights May Cost Disney+Hotstar 15-25 Mn Subscribers | According to multiple analysts, Disney+Hotstar is set to lose out on anywhere between 15-25 Mn subscribers after losing out on IPL rights
Meanwhile, the IPL will be a huge opportunity for Reliance-owned Viacom18’s OTT platform Voot to expan... |
| Mar 24, 2022 | Govt To Supreme Court: Vaccination Not Mandatory For Any Indian; But Unvaccinated People Are Spreading Covid | Govt To Supreme Court: Vaccination Not Mandatory For Any Indian; But Unvaccinated People Are Spreading Covid
The Centre told the Supreme Court that it has not made Covid vaccines mandatory but has only asked states to ensure 100% coverage.
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| Feb 19, 2022 | Coming to the US for a brief stay? Unsafe neighborhoods to avoid | Share
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| Feb 7, 2022 | Who really benefits from digital development? | Kevin Klyman Contributor
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| Nov 19, 2021 | Class 10, 12 Exam Will Be 100% In Offline Mode, Supreme Court Says No To Online Mode | Board exams of both CBSE, ICSE will take place exclusively offline.
The Supreme Court has rejected pleas made by students that wanted the 10th and 12th exams to be conducted in hybrid mode.
Board exams of both CBSE, ICSE will take place exc... |
| Sep 26, 2021 | A blast into a clean energy future? Scientists tout nuclear fusion breakthrough | With a powerful zap from nearly 200 laser beams that lasted less than 9 billionth of a second, scientists in Northern California believe they have achieved a major milestone in their research to advance nuclear fusion.
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| Sep 23, 2021 | How (Not) to Regulate the Internet: Lessons From the Indian Subcontinent | In February, the Indian government enacted the highly anticipated amendments to its intermediary liability regime. Titled the “Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021,” which we refer to as... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: 2 in 5 districts yet to get RT-PCR testing lab | Over 28,000 fresh cases reported
India reported 28,204 fresh coronavirus infections on Tuesday, taking the cumulative caseload to 31.9 million, according to central health ministry data. The country saw 373 more deaths due to the pandemic, ... |
| Jul 29, 2021 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: Kerala has lowest seroprevalence, finds survey | Over 43,500 fresh cases reported
India reported 43,509 fresh coronavirus infections on Thursday, taking the cumulative caseload to 31.5 million, according to central health ministry data. The country saw 640 more deaths due to the pandemic,... |
| Jul 28, 2021 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: Nationwide 'R value' close to 1 | Over 43,500 fresh cases reported
India reported 43,654 fresh coronavirus infections on Wednesday, taking the cumulative caseload to 31.4 million, according to central health ministry data. The country saw 640 more deaths due to the pandemic... |
| Jul 26, 2021 | We Spoke to the Men Who Went to Jail For Saying Cow Poop and Piss Can’t Cure COVID | Kishorechandra Wangkhem, a seasoned television journalist from the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, has been imprisoned three times over the last three years. He has a history of speaking out on social media against the members of the ... |
| Jul 11, 2021 | Why linking Aadhaar with voter ID is a dangerous idea | Written by Vibhav Mariwala and Prakhar Misra
Last month, the Election Commission of India (ECI), reminded the Law Ministry to approve a slew of pending electoral reforms. Among these was hastening the linking of voter ID cards (EPIC databas... |
| Jun 25, 2021 | Time To End India’s War on Sedition | What do a 22-year-old climate activist, a journalist reporting on a gang rape case and a politician supporting a farmers’ protest have in common? They have all recently been charged with sedition as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go... |
| May 14, 2021 | India reports more than 343,000 new cases as one professor claims infection may have peaked | Government data released Friday showed there were 343,144 new reported cases over a 24-hour period, where at least 4,000 people died.
Manindra Agrawal, who co-authored a mathematic model for pandemics called SUTRA that is backed by the Indi... |
| May 13, 2021 | From Confidence to Chaos: India’s Journey to Its Coronavirus Crisis | At the end of 2020, dozens of articles celebrated India’s success in its fight against the coronavirus. So when recent apocalyptic images of the streets of India surfaced globally, the world was in shock.
Now at the global epicenter of the ... |
| May 5, 2021 | India is suffering immensely under the weight of Covid. Now its failures are threatening much of the world | When Covid-19 began sweeping across the globe in 2020, many experts expected India to be the vaccine savior of the developing world. That thought bubble has burst.
In the early days of the pandemic, as multiple vaccines were being rushed in... |
| May 3, 2021 | Report for the World announces selection of first-ever corps members | Report for the World “There is a need to strengthen press freedom around the world. Healthy societies require trusted, accurate information and never before has that need been more clear and more urgent," said Charles Sennott, founder ... |
| Apr 22, 2021 | Indian politicians encouraged a return to normal as COVID-19 cases fell. Now hospitals are overwhelmed as a ‘double mutant’ variant takes hold – but mass gatherings continue. | A patient being taken away for testing at a COVID-19 ward at a hospital in Kolkata, India, on Wednesday. Debarchan Chatterjee/NurPhoto via Getty Images
A second COVID-19 wave is devastating India, where a new “double mutant” virus variant e... |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Former employee accuses Facebook of being ignorant of its policies to favour a BJP MP | Facebook has been caught in another controversy for being accused of showing bias towards the ruling regime.
Sophie Zhang, a former employee, says Facebook stopped the checkpoint process after realising one of these networks supports a BJP ... |
| Apr 12, 2021 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: 80% of security forces have received first shot | Nearly 170,000 cases reported in a new record
India reported 1,68,912 fresh coronavirus infections on Monday, taking the cumulative caseload to 13.5 million, according to a report in the Scroll. This is the highest one-day rise in infection... |
| Apr 4, 2021 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: More Indians now willing to take the vaccine | Over 93,000 fresh cases reported
India reported 93,249 fresh coronavirus infections on Sunday—the highest since mid-September— taking the cumulative caseload to 1,24,85,509, according to a report in the Scroll. The country saw 513 deaths du... |
| Mar 30, 2021 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: Is it OK to take painkillers after Covid shot? | Active cases rise for the twentieth straight day
India reported 56,211 fresh coronavirus infections on Tuesday, taking the cumulative caseload to 1,20,95,855, according to a report in the Scroll. The daily cases were slightly lower than the... |
| Mar 26, 2021 | This Politician Is Promising Free Helicopters and Trips to the Moon | As political campaigning heats up in legislative elections across five Indian states, one candidate is hogging headlines for his absurdist take on the culture of campaign freebies. The VICE Guide to Right NowGoats for Votes: The Weird Reaso... |
| Mar 15, 2021 | A lack of transparency creates a 'breeding ground of insecurity,' according to one tech CEO | TVSquared CEO Calum Smeaton. Courtesy of TVSquared
Employees want their organizations to be transparent, and that's especially true during a crisis.
TVSquared CEO Calum Smeaton has centered his leadership around transparency, and it's paid ... |
| Mar 15, 2021 | A lack of transparency creates a ‘breeding ground of insecurity,’ according to one tech CEO | TVSquared CEO Calum Smeaton. Courtesy of TVSquared
Employees want their organizations to be transparent, and that’s especially true during a crisis.
TVSquared CEO Calum Smeaton has centered his leadership around transparency, and it’s paid ... |
| Mar 11, 2021 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: How Pak may get India-made vaccine doses | Pakistan to get 45 million India-made vaccine doses through GAVI
Pakistan will receive 45 million India-made Covid-19 vaccine shots this year through Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), a report in The Quint said. GAVI is ... |
| Mar 6, 2021 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: Study finds virus mutating faster in Bengaluru | IN NUMBERS: Over 18,000 fresh cases reported
India reported 18,327 fresh coronavirus infections on Saturday, taking the cumulative caseload to 1,11,92,088, according to a report in the Scroll. The country saw 108 deaths due to the pandemic,... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | VC Q&A: Why India’s rural development bank invested in an online butcher’s $15m fundraise | Last month, TenderCuts — an online grocer selling high-end meat and seafood — raised $15 million funding from Mumbai-based private equity firm Paragon Partners and NABVENTURES, the VC arm of India’s state-owned National Bank for Agriculture... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | Amazon issues rare apology in India over drama series | Amazon on Tuesday issued a rare apology to users in India for an original political drama series over allegations that a few scenes in the nine-part mini series hurt religious sentiments of some people in the key overseas market.
The series... |
| Feb 26, 2021 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: Co-Win app not needed to get vaccinated | IN NUMBERS: Over 16,500 fresh cases reported
India reported 16,577 fresh coronavirus infections on Friday, taking the cumulative caseload to 11,063,491, according to a report in the Scroll. The fresh cases were slightly lower than Thursday’... |
| Feb 20, 2021 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: Mumbai announces strict measures to curb virus | IN NUMBERS: Nearly 14,000 fresh cases reported
India reported 13,993 fresh coronavirus infections on Saturday, taking the cumulative caseload to 1,09,77,387, according to a report in the Scroll. The country saw 101 deaths due to the pandemi... |
| Feb 18, 2021 | Why Are Farmers Protesting in India? | As military tanks and elaborate floats paraded through the center of New Delhi on Jan. 26 as part of India’s annual Republic Day celebrations—commemorating the day India’s democratic constitution came into effect—a rally just miles away tur... |
| Feb 14, 2021 | Govt & Twitter Can Be Ordered To Block Fake News, Provocative Content; SC Issues Notice | Govt & Twitter Can Be Ordered To Block Fake News, Provocative Content; SC Issues Notice
In the wake of the feud between the Central government and Twitter over some taking down misleading tweets, on Friday, the supreme court was dragged... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: Under 30% health workers get jabs in 11 states | IN NUMBERS: 12,293 new coronavirus infections reported
As many as 12,293 new coronavirus infections were recorded in the last 24 hours nationwide, taking the cumulative caseload to 1,08,71,294, the Scroll reported. As many as 108 deaths wer... |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Indian Government Threatens To Jail Twitter Employees For Restoring Accounts The Government Wants Blocked | We keep pointing out to people the very slippery slope that happens when we say it’s okay for the government to tell websites how they have to moderate. And what’s happening in India is a very important case study. As you’re hopefully aware... |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Indian Government Threatens To Jail Twitter Employees For Restoring Accounts The Government Wants Blocked | We keep pointing out to people the very slippery slope that happens when we say it's okay for the government to tell websites how they have to moderate. And what's happening in India is a very important case study. As you're hopefully aware... |
| Jan 27, 2021 | Sasikala returns in an election year — a woman who has won and lost it all one too many times has another shot at power | Sasikala has been an important part of Tamil Nadu politics for over three decades, functioning as the woman ‘next in power’ after the late Jayalalithaa.
“I believe she would want to correct the perception that Jayalalithaa was the good pers... |
| Jan 23, 2021 | What’s Wrong With UP’s AI-Based Facial Recognition System For Women? | To tackle the growing menace of public harassment of women and sexual assaults, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to deploy five smart cameras in Lucknow equipped with facial recognition technology to read into a woman’s expression. ... |
| Jan 20, 2021 | Pandemic Effect: 9 Months On, More Younger Workers Remain Jobless
Pandemic Effect: 9 Months On, More Younger Workers Remain Jobless | The Covid-19 pandemic has delivered a large and sustained economic shock to the global economy. In India, the effect can be broadly divided into two phases--the shock of the nationwide lockdown in the months of April and May 2020, and the s... |
| Jan 17, 2021 | What India Can Learn From Covid-19 To Build A Healthier Nation | MUMBAI, INDIA - 2021/01/15: An artist paints a poster welcoming Covid-19 vaccination programme with ... [+] a portrait of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Corona vaccination programme will begin in the country from 16th January 2021. Healthcar... |
| Jan 5, 2021 | Why India Can’t Take a Joke Anymore | On Jan. 1, as the world ushered in 2021, a stand-up comedian was getting arrested in the central Indian city of Indore. Munawar Faruqui was whisked away by the Indore Police from a stand-up venue for allegedly “insulting” Hindu deities. He ... |
| Jan 5, 2021 | After Russia and China, India’s Approval of Homegrown Vaccines Is Raising Eyebrows | India’s approval of a domestically developed vaccine for COVID-19 without publicizing its efficacy has raised safety concerns.
World NewsThis 'Vaccine Queue Calculator' Estimates When You'll Be Eligible for the COVID Jab
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| Dec 26, 2020 | Air India Pilots Threaten Strike, Protests Over 58% Salary Cut; Reject 5% Rollback | Air India Pilots Threaten Strike, Protests Over 58% Salary Cut; Reject 5% Rollback
The pilots of Air India are protesting against the 58% salary cut, and are also threatening a strike.
Recently, the debt ridden airline had been ordered by t... |
| Dec 11, 2020 | India’s drug regulator has failed the pandemic stress test. The U.S. should take notice | The Covid-19 pandemic has served as a stress test for drug regulators across the world. India’s has failed.
Amid the desperate scrambles for therapeutics and vaccines to stem the havoc caused by the pandemic, drug regulators have had to res... |
| Dec 11, 2020 | A Discreet Indian Firm is Running a Global Disinformation Campaign, Says Report | A network of over 750 fake media outlets is currently spreading disinformation against China and Pakistan, revealed an investigation by Brussels-based NGO EU DisinfoLab. The report, published on Wednesday, Dec. 9, found that a little-known ... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | This Man Started the Beatboxing Culture in Conflict-Ridden Kashmir | In 2017, as 200 people stared at the stage, Sufiyan Rouf’s larynx dried up, meaning he was unable to use any of his instruments—lips, mouth, tongue, and his voice. It was the first time Rouf was performing a beatbox routine, an alien cultur... |
| Nov 26, 2020 | As biz takes a hit, the pandemic is pushing women out of jobs in UP | 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. Kaushal, who graduated last year, could have become a teach... |
| Nov 4, 2020 | Trump Jr’s US Elections Prediction World Map Got a Lot of Things Wrong | As the U.S. continues to count its ballots for its presidential race, American businessman Donald Trump Jr, who is also the eldest child of the current U.S. President Donald Trump, tweeted an image of a red and blue map on Nov. 3, that conf... |
| Nov 2, 2020 | How the Stalking and Murder of a Woman is Fanning Religious Tensions in India | Adal Singh Rawat remembers the man who shot dead his niece last week, on October 26. Rawat, a resident of Ballabgarh, a small town in the northern Indian state of Haryana, knew of Tauseef as the young man who routinely stalked the daughter ... |
| Oct 30, 2020 | What It’s Like to Be Declared a ‘Witch’ in Modern India | GOALPARA, India—Like other women in her village, Raneshwari Rabha keeps busy through the day, tending to her chickens in the coop and tilling her brother’s land where she grows paddy, vegetables, rubber and betel nut. The 48-year-old has be... |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Meet the People Branded ‘Traitors’ by the Indian Government | Author Kamalsy Najmal has not written since 2016. This was the year when, under the Indian law, he was branded a “traitor”. It all started when Najmal, from the southern Indian state of Kerala, wrote a book titled ‘Smashanangalude Notepusta... |
| Oct 25, 2020 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: Why many refuse to get themselves tested | Non-existent study: In an answers to Rajya Sabha, Renuka Singh Saruta, Minister of State for Tribal Affairs, attributed data to a study that might not exist. In parliament, she said that less than 3 per cent of people in tribal areas had te... |
| Oct 21, 2020 | As Rape Protests Rock Bangladesh, A Survivor Explains How the Country Failed Its Women | Nadeen* did not watch the video. But she spent sleepless nights after reading about it. For days, she was unable to think about anything else. “It was as if I was living her horror and pain,” the 25-year-old told VICE News over the phone fr... |
| Oct 21, 2020 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: Co-morbidities take toll in National Capital | Covid, diabetes, hypertension combo: In Delhi, one in five people who died of Covid-19 between March and October were suffering from both diabetes and hypertension. These two co-morbid conditions were the common. This was followed by pneumo... |
| Oct 15, 2020 | The COVID-19 pandemic has only worsened India’s problem of malnutrition | According to UNICEF, India is likely to witness an increase in malnutrition by at least 10%.
Even before the coronavirus pandemic began, one in every nine people globally suffered from hunger, according to the UN.
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| Oct 13, 2020 | Right-Wing Trolls Made an Indian Brand Withdraw its Ad on Interfaith Couple | An Indian jewellery brand was forced to withdraw an advertisement after facing vicious trolling. Tanishq, the company, pulled the ad that showed a baby shower for a pregnant Hindu woman by her Muslim in-laws. It was released on October 9.
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| Oct 10, 2020 | Monkey ‘Gang Wars’ Keep Killing People in India | On October 6, Laxman Tulsiani, a gold dealer, and Veera, a caretaker, were examining a construction site in Agra city in north India’s Uttar Pradesh (UP) state. A massive monkey brawl broke out at the property, resulting in a wall collapsin... |
| Oct 9, 2020 | A Brief History of Non-Indians Hating On Indian Food | Early this week, a British historian riled up a lot of Indians when he called idli, a popular south Indian savoury made of rice, “boring”. A tweet by British historian Edward Anderson went viral on October 6.
Anderson’s statement came in re... |
| Oct 6, 2020 | As We Fight The Coronavirus Pandemic, We Cannot Ignore Non-Communicable Diseases | An electronic blood pressure machine takes a patient's readings during a free door-to-door screening ... [+] program conducted by Public Health Foundation of India. Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg© 2017 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| Oct 6, 2020 | Indian State Accused of Cover-Up As Protests Over Gang Rape Continue | A week after the death of a young Dalit woman who was allegedly gang raped in Hathras district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), the state police and the government are facing criticism for seemingly trying to cover up the... |
| Oct 5, 2020 | A Man Cut off a Dead Tiger’s Genitals to Improve His Own Sex Drive | Earlier this month, an Indian man was arrested, along with two of his aides, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh for cutting off a tiger’s head and genitals. The man believed eating the tiger’s sex organs would increase his libido... |
| Sep 26, 2020 | Tuberculosis And Covid-19: Fighting A Deadly Syndemic | Kiran Sitaras on their mission of ending TB among their local community via door-to-door household ... [+] screenings. Under the Kiran Sitara initiative, school girls are educated and trained to conduct community health screenings for TB in... |
| Sep 22, 2020 | How India’s Ancient Tribes Are Fighting to Save Their Forests From Coal Mining | It is the monsoon harvest season, a happy time for farmers in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, who will sell their crop to make money for the upcoming autumn season. This year has been particularly good due to favorable weather condition... |
| Sep 18, 2020 | India’s Top Court Is Reviewing if Couples Who Elope Should Have the Right To Privacy | Rhea Sharma* knew that dating someone outside of her religion would not be easy. That did not deter her from pursuing a relationship with a Christian man. Sharma is an upper caste Hindu.
Opposition from their families is one hurdle.
World N... |
| Sep 18, 2020 | Why Indian Women Don’t Pursue Paid Employment | Three out of four women in India do not work as paid employees. Crucially, they do not seek paid employment. |
| Sep 17, 2020 | Streets, Buildings, Museums: India Is on a Name Changing Spree To Erase the Mughal History | Early this week, the government of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) decided to change the status of a project that has been in the making since 2016: the Mughal Museum. In the city of Agra—home to the famous Mughal monument, ... |
| Sep 9, 2020 | Why Does India Keep Dealing With 'Language Wars'? | On Sunday, September 6, a photograph of Yuvan Shankar Raja, a music composer, with actor Shirish Saravanan, both from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, went viral on Twitter. Saravanan wore a T-shirt that read, “Hindi theriyathu, pod... |
| Sep 4, 2020 | Indian Law Student Stalls a Newscast Portraying His University As 'Terrorism Hub' | An Indian court stalling the broadcast of a TV news show has prompted a debate on freedom of speech. Many argue that news media has been increasingly fuelling Islamophobia through content targeting the Muslim minority which forms around 14 ... |
| Sep 4, 2020 | Netflix’s Bad Boy Billionaires Investigates India’s Biggest Accused Scammers. Now, Its Subjects Are Trying to Block Its Release. | The upcoming Netflix docuseries Bad Boy Billionaires investigating four Indian businessmen with fraud allegations, namely Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Subrata Roy, and Ramalinga Raju, was stalled after two separate court orders in India.
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| Aug 25, 2020 | Women in India Are Divided Over Period Leaves. Here’s Why. | Earlier this month, an announcement by an Indian company reignited the debate on period leaves. Zomato, one of India’s largest food-delivery firms, sent a note to employees stating that it understands “men and women are born with different ... |
| Jul 14, 2020 | Is a COVID Second Wave Dragging Asia Under? | The Asia-Pacific region’s much-feared second wave appears to be building.
With countries slowly reopening in a bid to stave off the economic hangover of coronavirus lockdowns, many—including ones that had earned praise for tamping down init... |
| Jun 30, 2020 | Ten Ways That Racial And Environmental Justice Are Inextricably Linked | The statue of former US President Theodore Roosevelt is to be removed from the American Museum of ... [+] Natural History, New York City announced on June 22. The statue, put up in 1940, features a Native American and a Black man standing a... |
| May 11, 2020 | AIDS, TB And Malaria Set To Get Deadlier Due To Coronavirus | AIDS, TB and Malaria are major killer infections in many low & middle income countries. The ... [+] coronavirus pandemic is expected to increase mortality due to all infections in the coming months and years.Getty |
| Mar 25, 2020 | Sonia Gandhi appeals to PM Modi | PORTS & SHIPPING Sonia Gandhi appeals to PM Modi
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Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson, Congress Parliamentary Party, has raised the issue of the welfare of construction workers with Prime Minister Narendra Modi (see lett... |
| Mar 20, 2020 | The Case For Inclusive Innovation | Photo:Getty |
| Mar 13, 2020 | All of Adani Group stocks suffer as oil price war adds fuel to fire amidst ‘coronacrash’ | Advertisement
The Adani group stocks are one of the worst affected in the last few weeks as Indian and global markets are rattled by Coronavirus.
The share price of all the six companies of the Group — Adani Enterprises, Adani Ports, Adani ... |
| Mar 10, 2020 | Securitize Launches Tokenized Platform to Revitalize Japan's Rural Property Market | Digital asset issuer Securitize has launched a tokenized platform aimed at encouraging funding in under-invested real estate in rural Japan.
Built in collaboration with Tokyo-based fintech firm LIFULL Social Funding, the crowdfunding platfo... |
| Feb 25, 2020 | Times Internet in advance talks to acquire TVF | Video streaming and production company The Viral Fever or TVF has been chasing investors for a fresh round for about 18 months now. However, it has failed to convince its existing investor Tiger Global or any new investor.
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| Jan 16, 2020 | India’s New Citizenship Law and its Anti-Secular Implications | Over the past month, India has witnessed massive protests across the country against the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) by the Indian Parliament and the implementation of the National Register of Citizens. Initially, student... |
