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By Jagdish Rattanani |
The world’s most-watched election is today, Nov.03, with Joe Biden in the lead but pollsters still unsure if he will…
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Robert Koch discovered tuberculosis (TB) bacteria nearly 140 years ago, making this one of the earliest diseases to…
For so many students sitting in their homes and not knowing when the lockdown will end for their particular schools or…
By Ajit Ranade |
In September 2018 a five-judge constitution bench that included the Chief Justice of India, pronounced an important…
By Ajit Ranade |
Why do people repay a loan? Firstly, because they are bound by a loan contract to repay. If they break the contract,…
By Martin Macwan |
Hathras is the first case of Independent India where the State has deprived the parents of sexual abuse victim to…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
An 18-year-old girl had been brought out of one of the best-known public hospitals in the country and left at the curb…
By Ajit Ranade |
This is the first time in India’s history that we are experiencing a steep recession without any adverse shock of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The overwhelming feeling that comes to mind about the manner in which the Uttar Pradesh administration has handled the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There are, broadly speaking, two approaches to building as also to breaking – be it a policy, an institution or for…
Covid has altered everybody's life, but the closure of schools has meant the impact on the very young could be…
By Ganesh N Devy |
The contempt of court case against the Tamil actor Suriya (which was fortunately and wisely dropped by the Madras High…
By Ajit Ranade |
The economy shrank by nearly one fourth during the first three months of this fiscal year. Much of this was due to the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The past week has been dominated by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s remark alluding to an “act of God”. She was…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In a course on journalism that I taught years ago, one exercise I often asked was for the class to roam around Mumbai’s…