To dismiss claims of poor-quality pharma drugs as an effort by Big Pharma to hurt India’s growing reputation as pharmacy to the world — a non-tariff barrier of sorts — isn’t as extreme a conspiracy theory as some may believe. Yet, to pretend all is well with the drug licensing and regulatory regime would be […]
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They were India’s islands of excellence, set up in an infant country to prepare a generation for nation-building. Over time, they became notorious for their brain drain, and famous as CEO factories for multinational corporations. Yet, in recent years, various campuses of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have been in the news for a […]
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India has already surpassed or will surpass, by July 1, China to become the most populous country on the planet, a United Nations Population Fund report predicted, a moment of tremendous opportunity and challenge for a country still striving to provide a basic quality of life to all its citizens. Three interconnected issues need the […]
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Updating textbooks and rationalising syllabi is a commonplace practice across the world, necessitated by the shifting needs of the education system, society and science. Yet, steps taken by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) last year to rationalise the syllabi have stoked controversy for a bouquet of reasons. The government body argued […]
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China’s move to unilaterally rename 11 locations in Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing claims as South Tibet, earlier this week is in line with its strategy of keeping the border with India unstable, even as it pretends that it wants to keep up business running as usual in other domains of the bilateral ties. This is […]
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A string of clashes over the past week has marred the celebrations of Ram Navami across the country and ratcheted up political temperatures, especially in West Bengal and Bihar. In the former, 10 people were hurt after two groups attacked each other during a Ram Navami procession at Shibpur in the Howrah district. Eight vehicles […]
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A conference on the way forward for social justice programmes is being seen as the next step in the ongoing attempts to build Opposition unity ahead of the next general elections. At the first national conference of the All India Federation for Social Justice, an initiative of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), members of Opposition […]
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In the annals of terror jurisprudence in India, it is now commonplace for higher courts to reverse mechanical convictions pronounced by trial courts. Even by those standards, however, the acquittal of four people convicted for their role in the 2008 Jaipur serial blasts and the negligence of the police is egregious — enough for the […]
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In January 2017, seven judges of India’s highest constitutional court delivered a landmark verdict that hinged on the judicial interpretation of just one word in the country’s electoral law. By a narrow majority of 4-3, the bench led by then Chief Justice of India TS Thakur held that the word “his” in section 123(3) of […]
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The challenges of limited awareness, misconceptions, lack of standardised education and training and the absence of industry standards and best practices can make it challenging for UX designers to find a job in this field The field of User Experience (UX) design has gained significant momentum in recent years, with an increasing number of businesses […]
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