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The Covid Survivors - How They Beat Fear, Stigma And The Disease Itself
The testimonies of those who have had a tryst with the disease reveal that a majority experience its mild manifestation. Those who do need critical care can take heart from the relatively high recovery rate and low fatality rate.
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June 22, 2020
India Today
Ventilator Scam - Gasping For Air
Last month, after an investigation in a local newspaper, the Gujarat government was forced to defend the purchase of locally-made ‘Dhaman-1’ ventilators that bureaucrats and doctors alleged were substandard.
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June 22, 2020
India Today
RESTAURANTS - Cancelling the Reservations
Hit hard by the pandemic, India’s restaurant industry is trying hard to survive and keep its chin up
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June 22, 2020
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SAVING THE BREAK POINT
By helming the campaign ‘Love All’, Somdev Devvarman is trying to help Indian tennis survive Covid
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June 22, 2020
India Today
‘There is no threat of cross-voting in RS polls'
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has had an eventful two-and-a-half months on the job after his party, the BJP, overthrew the Congress government just before the lockdown was clamped on March 25. Excerpts from an interview with Rahul Noronha:
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June 22, 2020
India Today
ON THE WARPATH
The BJP is doing its damnedest to unsettle and discredit Mamata Banerjee in the run-up to the assembly election next year. The Bengal chief minister must also deal with malcontent in her own party
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June 22, 2020
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“It will now truly be ‘one nation, one market'”
Union agriculture secretary SANJAY AGARWAL spoke to India Today group editorial director RAJ CHENGAPPA about the significance of three major ordinances passed by the government: the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance and an amendment to the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. Excerpts:
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June 22, 2020
India Today
GUEST COLUMN - AMERICAN UPRISING
The great American writer James Baldwin wrote an essay in 1966 in which he spoke of black neighbourhoods being “policed like occupied territory”. Since the police know that they are hated, he wrote, “they are always afraid. One cannot possibly arrive at a more surefire formula for cruelty”.
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June 22, 2020
India Today
Unquiet In The Himalayas
The Chinese pla’s incursions across the line of actual control in ladakh test the vulnerability of india’s newest union territory
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June 15, 2020
India Today
In The Hot Seat
As Maharashtra becomes the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray faces a severe test of leadership. Will he be equal to the task or will an over-reliance on bureaucrats prove his undoing?
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June 15, 2020
India Today
‘We can't make propaganda'
A quick glance at his Twitter account will tell you that Anurag Kashyap staunchly resists narratives the establishment broadcasts, but the filmmaker says that while directing the Netflix release Choked, a film set against the backdrop of demonetisation, he didn’t let his politics interfere with his storytelling.
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June 15, 2020
India Today
WHOSE HAND IS IT ANYWAY?
AS RAHUL GANDHI GETS BACK TO THE THICK OF THINGS IN THE CONGRESS, THE PARTY VETERANS LOOK TO THWART HIS TEAM’S PLANS. ANOTHER POWER STRUGGLE SEEMS TO BE ON IN THE GRAND OL’ PARTY
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June 15, 2020
India Today
STATES OF ALARM
The easing of lockdown restrictions in Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Gujarat, among the states worst-affected by Covid, is fraught with high risk. How prepared are they?
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June 15, 2020
India Today
First-Mover Advantage
BY CHOOSING TO STREAM HIS FILM ON A DIGITAL PLATFORM, SHOOJIT SIRCAR IS SHAPING BOLLYWOOD’S ‘NEW NORMAL’
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June 15, 2020
India Today
THE LOSS OF FAITH
On June 1, Moody’s Investors Service, which rates bonds issued by governments and commercial entities, downgraded India’s foreign-currency and local-currency long-term issuer ratings by a notch to ‘Baa3’ from ‘Baa2’, adding that the outlook remained ‘negative’.
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June 15, 2020
India Today
Q+A The Mindy Project
In her writing and performances, Mindy Kaling often celebrates her Indian-American identity without resorting to self-mockery. Her latest Netflix show Never Have I Ever keeps the flags flying
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June 15, 2020
India Today
GODS OF CLAY
A CROP OF RECENT SPORTS DOCUMENTARIES SHOWS MORTALS MAKE FOR BETTER STORIES THAN HEROES
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June 15, 2020
India Today
BRINGING HOME THE GALLERIES
EVEN AS WE RUE THE ABSENCE OF FANS FROM STADIUMS AROUND THE WORLD, SPORTS ADMINISTRATORS AND BROADCASTERS ARE BUSY DREAMING UP A RICHER ENGAGEMENT
7 min |
June 15, 2020
India Today
The 2.2 Million Challenge
After a slow start, the Uttar Pradesh government seems to have got a grip on the health and economic consequences of the big migrant influx. But their longer term rehabilitation is still far from certain
8 min |
June 08, 2020
India Today
The Migrant Mess
It took a pandemic to thrust this seemingly invisible workforce into the national consciousness and expose how India has failed migrant labourers, the beating heart of its economy
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June 08, 2020
India Today
The Migrant And The Moral Economy Of The Elite
The lockdown has revealed the brutality of India's chronic disregard for the rights of migrant labourers
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June 08, 2020
India Today
WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?
In the end, it took a phone call from the prime minister’s office for Union minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda to self-quarantine for the mandated seven days for passengers flying into Karnataka from Delhi.
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June 08, 2020
India Today
THINK RELIEF, NOT JUST REFORM
THE EUPHORIC RESPONSE TO THE NEW REFORMS IS PREMATURE. THESE ARE STILL ONLY EXPRESSIONS OF INTENT; THE DEVIL, AS THEY SAY, LIES IN THE DETAILS
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June 08, 2020
India Today
Wanted: A Return Policy
Migrant workers are unlikely to return to their workplaces before next year. In the meantime, there is much to be done
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June 08, 2020
India Today
LIMPING BACK TO LIFE
CYCLONE AMPHAN HAS KNOCKED THE WIND OUT OF A STATE ADMINISTRATION ALREADY STRUGGLING TO COPE WITH THE COVID PANDEMIC
7 min |
June 08, 2020
India Today
NOT QUITE RISK-FREE
Debt funds may seem deceptively like FDs, but are certainly not as safe
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June 08, 2020
India Today
A WINDOW FOR ART
With galleries out of bounds, several websites are now delivering art to your screens
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June 08, 2020
India Today
A READY RECKONER FOR A RAINY DAY
The worst mistake in a financial crunch is to prematurely encash FDs, redeem mutual fund investments or sell gold when there are smarter options to source funds
5 min |
June 08, 2020
India Today
Yogi's War On Corona
Yogi Adityanath’s uttar pradesh has so far managed to stay ahead in the battle against covid. But the administration is being stretched and the sea of returning migrants promises to be a severe challenge
6 min |
June 01, 2020
India Today
Living A Covid Nightmare
Overcrowding and lack of facilities in Mumbai’s hospitals ave resulted in an overwhelmed health system in the city
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