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The Battle For Online Privacy
The new IT rules have led to a face-off between the union government and social media giants. But amid all the furore, have user rights become the biggest casualty?
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June 21, 2021
India Today
How Safe Are Your Kids?
While the elderly remain a priority for covid care and vaccination, the risk of infections in young children may have been overlooked
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June 21, 2021
India Today
Can Inoculate Its India's 900 Million Adult Population By December 31?
Battered by the second wave of covid-19, the government recalibrates its vaccination strategy in the hope of inoculating india’s 900 million adult population by december 31. How realistic is this target?
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June 21, 2021
India Today
In the Rearview Mirror
AS INDIA DRIVES ON TO BECOME ONE OF THE LARGEST AUTOMOTIVE MARKETS IN THE WORLD, A NEW BOOK REFLECTS UPON OUR FASCINATING JOURNEY ON FOUR WHEELS
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June 21, 2021
India Today
The Leopard Library
With humans forcing the leopard to change its spot, two new books celebrate India’s other big cat
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June 21, 2021
India Today
A RESOUNDING TRAGEDY
The period from 1989-1991 was a historically significant time that continues to shape the world we live in today. Bookending it were the Tiananmen Square protests, the subject of former Indian foreign secretary and ambassador to China Vijay Gokhale’s book. The critical months of April-June 1989 in China have sometimes been overlooked, but Gokhale makes a convincing case that it is crucial to understand the developments around the protests because they shaped the China that India and other countries face today.
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June 21, 2021
India Today
THE RUMBLINGS WITHIN
EVEN AS THE BJP’S EXPANSIONIST DRIVE CONTINUES AT A NATIONAL LEVEL, IT IS BATTLING ATTRITION IN SEVERAL KEY STATES IT RULES, INCLUDING SOME THAT GO TO POLLS EARLY NEXT YEAR
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June 21, 2021
India Today
THE YOUNG SURVIVORS
On April 8, Deepak Solanki, resident of Bagratawa, a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad district, tested positive for the coronavirus. Two days earlier, Solanki and his wife Anita developed a fever and other flu-like symptoms, but they thought it was likely just about of common flu—it hadn’t yet sunk in that Covid was no longer the urban phenomenon they imagined it to be. However, an RT-PCR test, done on the insistence of Deepak, 45, a district medical representative, proved otherwise. Deepak was admitted to a private medical facility the same day and Anita two days later. Their children—two daughters, aged 18 and 15, and a son, 12—were left in the care of their nephew Shrikant Solanki. All three children, too, had tested positive.
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June 21, 2021
India Today
Q+ A ‘I want to do everything'
Actor Arjun Kapoor on breaking the mould, shooting in the ‘new normal’ and on his latest film, Sandeep aur Pinky Faraar
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June 21, 2021
India Today
MISSION CHOKSI
An Indian fugitive in the Caribbean makes a sensational claim of abduction. Can India bring Mehul Choksi back to face justice?
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June 21, 2021
India Today
ON A ROLL
Huma Qureshi talks about juggling the multiple roles of an actress, a fundraiser for Covid relief and an author
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June 21, 2021
India Today
Fear and ‘Safe Zones' in Kashmir
The dramatic and hostile reord er ing of Jammu and Kashmir’s political status visavis the Indian state on August 5, 2019 was followed by a systematic emasculation of the old political order and its replacement by a new set of elected lead ers. The BJPled central government felt that taking control of local governance institutions (panchayat and municipal committees) was the best way to neutralise the traditional political parties and its legislators in the absence of a functioning assembly. But nearly two years down the line, grassroots democ racy has become a hostage in the battle between the militants and government forces. There have been threats and executions and instances of elected representatives fleeing their native villages.
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June 21, 2021
India Today
A New Era Begins
TRINAMOOL CONGRESS
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June 21, 2021
India Today
“The Economy Is A Big Challenge But We Are Up To It”
The Indian economy could again be in the ICU after the second wave of Covid, but Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman sounds confident that the government has it under control. In an exclusive interview to Group Editorial Director Raj Chengappa and Business Today Editor RAJEEV DUBEY, she outlines the revival plan.
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June 14, 2021
India Today
There Is No Offline
Patricia Lockwood’s delightful and disconcerting novel gives the web a whole new spin
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June 14, 2021
India Today
WRITING IN PAST CONTINUOUS
By his own admission, British writer Sunjeev Sahota’s novels “tend to come down to a few brown people living in north England or India”. But within this framework, Sahota wove richly detailed lives and unique voices in his first two novels: Ours are the Streets (2011) and The Year of the Runaways (2015), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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June 14, 2021
India Today
LONG LIVES THE QUEEN
These reminiscences of Begum Akhtar show that her personality sparkled as much as her voice
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June 14, 2021
India Today
Call Her By Her Name
The gospels often relegate women to the periphery. Jeet Thayil’s new novel brings them to the centre
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June 14, 2021
India Today
CONAN DOYLE DOES A SHERLOCK
Shrabani Basu’s book tells the story of how Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective knowhow once came to the rescue of a beleaguered Parsi lawyer
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June 14, 2021
India Today
AT THE PRINTER'S
Novels to hold your breath for
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June 14, 2021
India Today
THE WORLD WITHIN THE WORD
WITH A NEW BOOK, PEGGY MOHAN HAS HELPED CREATE A BRIDGE BETWEEN HOW WE SPEAK AND WHO WE ARE
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June 14, 2021
India Today
Salman Rushdie - LANGUAGES OF TRUTH
LANGUAGES OF TRUTH Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie HAMISH HAMILTON
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June 14, 2021
India Today
Mamata Vs Modi, Part 2
It has been a stormy first month in office for Mamata Banerjee in her third term as West Bengal chief minister. The BJP top leadership seems to have taken the election defeat to heart and has kept up the pressure on her government. Multiple central teams have descended on the state to “review the law and order situation” and investigating agencies seem to have suddenly woken up to scams that have dragged on for years.
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June 14, 2021
India Today
THE TRIAL ISN'T OVER
The Goa government challenges the acquittal of journalist-author Tarun Tejpal in the sensational case of an alleged sexual assault. Why the landmark case is going into a fresh loop
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June 14, 2021
India Today
TRUTH AND DARE
Salman Rushdie’s latest volume of non-fiction bristles with candour and courage
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June 14, 2021
India Today
THE DANGAL JUNGLE
The fall of an icon exposes the seedy underbelly of Indian wrestling
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June 14, 2021
India Today
HOW TO KICKSTART THE ECONOMY
THE DEADLY SECOND WAVE OF COVID BATTERED AN ALREADY BRUISED ECONOMY. INDIA NOW NEEDS POLICY VISION OUT OF THE ORDINARY TO RESTORE CONSUMER CONFIDENCE, BUSINESSES AND LIVELIHOODS
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June 14, 2021
India Today
Can Amarinder ride out the storm?
PUNJAB CONGRESS
5 min |
June 14, 2021
India Today
Covid-hit Villages Are Poll Battleground
On May 22, for the first time ever a chief minister who was not from the Samajwadi Party (SP) visited Saifai, the native village of party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, is the chancellor of the Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences in Saifai in Etawah district.
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June 14, 2021
India Today
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
Rural India’s desperately inadequate health infrastructure is common knowledge. But official estimates understate the crisis, which makes the battle against the pandemic even harder
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