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“WE WANT NATIONAL CHAMPIONS WHO'LL BE GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE”
Against the backdrop of the Covid backlash against China and India’s quest for economic selfreliance, the Union electronics and IT ministry has unveiled wide-ranging incentives to encourage manufacturers of electronic goods and components to set up shop in the country. In an interview with Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa and Deputy Editor Shwweta Punj, Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad paints his vision to turn India into a global electronics manufacturing hub and explains how this goal can be realised.
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July 13, 2020
India Today
Liberties under Fire
On June 23, Safoora Zargar, 27, a research scholar at Jamia Millia Islamia University, finally secured bail after 70 odd days of incarceration in Tihar Jail for her alleged role as ‘key conspirator’ in the Delhi riots conspiracy case being investigated by the Delhi Police Special Cell. Zargar was vocal and visible during the anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Bill) protests that swept Delhi— with echoes all over India—after the controversial Act came into existence in December 2019.
4 min |
July 13, 2020
India Today
REWIRING THE CIRCUIT
Can India turn the growing anti-China sentiment globally into an opportunity for homegrown electronics?
6 min |
July 13, 2020
India Today
THE LONG ROAD TO SELF-RELIANCE
India cannot end its reliance on China for automotive components overnight. An import ban would only choke supplies, raising costs for manufacturers and consumers. Needed: a long-term strategy to build domestic capacities
7 min |
July 13, 2020
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LOSING THE THREAD
India’s textile sector has a long way to go before it achieves economies of scale to challenge China’s dominance in world markets
7 min |
July 13, 2020
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Feeling the Hunger
Vikas Khanna’s #FoodIndia drive has delivered over 17 million meals to Indians on the brink of starvation. Coordinating efforts from his New York home, the chef says he’s just getting started
2 min |
July 13, 2020
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DESI UNICORNS IN A DRAGON-HOLD
Chinese firms funded Indian start-ups when domestic sources failed to put in big money. It is not easy to scoff at their contribution or wish them away
3 min |
July 13, 2020
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A BITTER PILL
India lost the competitive edge in manufacturing APIs—the building blocks of medicine—to China over the past two decades. Regaining it will be a challenge
6 min |
July 13, 2020
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Covid Hotspots: Can The Big Five Turn The Tide?
Not far from Azadpur Mandi in North Delhi stands Mahendru Enclave. A tanker sprays sodium hypochlorite in the narrow bylanes every morning. Here, 47 homes in Gali nos. 3, 4, and 5 were marked as a single containment zone on June 5, making it one of the largest COVID clusters among the national capital’s 240 active containment zones as on June 23. Only 4 km away, in Jahangirpuri, another 400 homes make up 10 of the 32 clusters in North Delhi district. This entire area has been a hotspot since April when one COVID-positive woman infected 26 members of her family.
5 min |
July 06, 2020
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COVID -19: The Elusive Miracle Drug
Rudra Govind runs a pharmacy in Delhi’s Shahdara. He remembers the rush for hydroxychloroquine in April when the ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) announced it as a possible prophylactic—his stock sold out within two days. Predictably, there is a similar surge in demand for two new COVID drugs—Favipiravir and Remdesivir—as they enter the market.
4 min |
July 06, 2020
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Q+A - ACTOR: The Conscientious
Rahul Bose stands out in a milieu that has come to prize quantity over quality. Unwilling to compromise in the latter half of his career, the actor finally said yes to a part in Netflix’s Bulbbul.
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July 06, 2020
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SPORTS: FOOTBALL'S COMEBACK
THE ABSENCE OF FANS HAS ROBBED FOOTBALL OF ITS HUMAN SPECTACLE, BUT FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH, THE GAME MUST GO ON
3 min |
July 06, 2020
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CUTTING EDGE
Fashion-forward NIFT stands firmly on the top, ever quick to adapt to changes in the field of fashion and design studies
4 min |
July 06, 2020
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INDIA-CHINA: Is the New Détente Credible?
Indian and Chinese troops have agreed to disengage at multiple points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. But the massive unprecedented build-up along the long LAC and the new permanent fortifications in the Pangong Tso area challenge optimism about a cessation of hostilities.
3 min |
July 06, 2020
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DRONES: NEW WINGS IN WAR ON LOCUSTS
The government has mounted a new air defence to take down the swarms of desert locusts threatening crops across western, northern and central India for the past two months.
2 min |
July 06, 2020
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THE TRADE PUNDITS
SRCC’s future-oriented courses and its own standing as a national resource centre speak of its pedigree
3 min |
July 06, 2020
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ART: VIRTUALLY MASTERFUL
In Reena Mohan’s 1992 documentary about Kamlabai Gokhale, there’s a moment when the remarkably lively nonagenarian actor remembers Dadasaheb Phalke, the father of Indian cinema, whose 1913 mythological Mohini Bhasmasur made Gokhale one of the first Indian women to appear on the screen. Her gaze settles contentedly on an image she has clearly held in her mind for nearly 80 years. “Black sherwani, pagri on his head, spectacles,” she says. “He was like someone in a Ravi Varma painting. It made you happy to see him.”
3 min |
July 06, 2020
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THE COVID BATCH
The pandemic has disrupted the academic year and forced students and colleges to rethink the admission process. Here’s our annual guide to the best colleges, with a difference
5 min |
July 06, 2020
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Jammu & Kashmir Is Homegrown Militancy In Retreat?
Hizbul Mujahideen, the separatist militant outfit active in Jammu and Kashmir since 1989, maybe in terminal retreat.
5 min |
June 29, 2020
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Leisure: Perfect Track Record
The toast of Indian hip-hop, rapper Prabh Deep is discovering a new groove with every track
4 min |
June 29, 2020
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Countering China In Nepal And The Neighbourhood
On May 15, India’s army chief suggested what many were afraid to say—bringing up the border dispute in the Kalapani region with India, he noted that Nepal “might have raised the issues at the behest of someone else”, obviously referring to China. This was swiftly followed by a flurry of paranoid China analysis. On television, talking heads bellowed about a Chinese “puppet government” in Kathmandu, even asking India to use its “assets” to topple it.
5 min |
June 29, 2020
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Yoga Against Covid
Asanas move from studios to smartphone screens as wellness enthusiasts rediscover yoga in a new online avatar
5 min |
June 29, 2020
India Today
THE ROW OVER ROWLING
HER NEW STORY MAY BE DROWNED OUT IN THE OUTRAGE OVER HER TWEETS ON TRANSPEOPLE. HAS J.K. LOST THE PILOT
3 min |
June 29, 2020
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BRACING FOR THE SURGE
With a national peak in Covid cases expected by mid-July, health experts emphasise the need to ramp up testing and contact-tracing in order to map the spread and keep the death rate low
9 min |
June 29, 2020
India Today
Checking CHINA
WHAT EXPLAINS CHINA’S CURRENT AGGRESSION? AND WHAT ARE INDIA’S MILITARY, DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC OPTIONS TO COUNTER IT?
10+ min |
June 29, 2020
India Today
Bobindra Sangeet
IF BOB DYLAN’S SONGS WERE SCRIPTURE, THE DOCUMENTARY IF NOT FOR YOU PROVES KOLKATA IS OBEDIENT
3 min |
June 29, 2020
India Today
BLOODBATH RIDGE
AN AGGRESSIVE CHINA SPARKS OFF A BLOODY BORDER CLASH, LEADING TO THE BIGGEST MILITARY STAND-OFF ON THE LAC SINCE 1962
7 min |
June 29, 2020
India Today
A STAR SNUFFED OUT
What caused an intelligent young actor to take his life? The industry—and his fans—try to make sense of Sushant Singh Rajput’s tragic and untimely demise
9 min |
June 29, 2020
India Today
Virtual Campaigns - Campaigning Goes Virtual
Is electioneering in India set to go all virtual in the time of the pandemic? Well, all eyes are on Bihar, which goes to the polls in October-November, and where a physical campaign seems an impossibility, at least for the next few months. Standard poll practices like gathering crowds for rallies, door-to-door campaigning or even a street corner meeting will be a challenge now, given the new physical distancing norms. Alive to this emerging situation, political parties have started gearing up for virtual campaigns.
4 min |
June 22, 2020
India Today
Hoping Against Hope
Thousands of small businesses are on the brink, with the government rescue package falling short of their expectations
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