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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
According to official figures, over the past twelve months 1.4 million people have lost their lives globally to Omicron. Estimates of the real global death toll via excess deaths places the tally at 5.2 million, a quarter of all excess deaths during the pandemic.
During a two-week visit to Iran in November, I witnessed women of all ages walking freely on the streets without the hijab. But, what we’re not told, is that they have been doing so for years.
Science showed decades ago that race was a fiction. Has that changed anything?
There was undisguised triumph among a few people that “those people” had been shown their place, but most celebrated quietly.
India is confronted with a dire situation shaped by the politics of targeting and tyrannising minorities 66 years after his death.
The appeal of the Bharat Jodo Yatra is not only in what it says, but also in its ability to move millions of hearts and minds.
The Finance Minister has announced that the government is going to privatise public sector banks in due course. A word of caution for the government about the far-reaching implications of privatising any PSU bank.
The percentage of men owning phones is as high as 61% while only 31% of women owned phones in 2021, according to a new report, which claimed that India’s growing inequalities based on caste, religion, gender, class, and geographic location are being worryingly replicated in the digital space.
The Archaeological Survey of India’s 2003 claim that there is evidence of a temple under the Babri Masjid doesn’t enjoy consensus, even among members of the group that conducted the dig.
Th attempt by a small but powerful minority to propagate GM crops to serve their interests and those of giant corporations, the bureaucracy, the political setup and a few unprincipled and unethical scientists and technologists who can be used as tools, must be opposed.
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