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India must step up genome sequencing efforts

If the Covid-19 surge in the national capital, and likely elsewhere, is indeed linked to higher infectivity of mutant SARS CoV-2 strains in...

The Financial Express

The Financial Express

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Reforming India’s deposit insurance scheme

By Anusha Chari & Amiyatosh Purnanandam The failure of the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC) in September 2019 shone a light on the...

The Financial Express

The Financial Express

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This village boy-turned-entrepreneur is building ‘Bharat Ka Online School’ for vernacular students

Vidyakul, an online school offering vernacular learning to students from lower-income households, wants to be the ‘Unacademy for Bharat’.

Sohini Mitter

Your Story

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Intelligent wok, an automated fryer, and a kitchen station with visual AI: how Rebel Foods is tapping IoT to scale

The future of Rebel Foods and its numerous dark kitchens is bright, courtesy technology. Working with AWS, the online restaurant company has built...

Vishal Krishna

Your Story

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Hazy outlook: Economic data is mixed but it’s clear that ending lockdowns fast is critical

Visibility has rarely been as hazy as it is today for India’s economic policy makers. Monthly indicators such as industrial output and consumer...

Toi Edit

The Times of India

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[Startup Bharat] Jaipur-based Kirana King aims to give local kiranas the tech and reach of organised retail

Jaipur-based Kirana King is a Retail as a Service platform that helps small retailers and kirana store operators to manage inventory, find the...

Sindhu Kashyaap

Your Story

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[Product roadmap] The role tech played in the journey of Bharat-focused social media startup ShareChat

In this week’s Product Roadmap we feature ShareChat, one of India’s newest unicorns. Here’s the story of how technology helped the...

Sindhu Kashyaap

Your Story

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India observes a sharp increase in AI-relevant patent applications between 2012-2018: CSET Report

According to the CSET report on 'Mapping India's AI potential', there were 10 times as many AI patent applications in India in 2018 as compared to...

Meha Agarwal

Your Story

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‘We all live in a heavily Tinderised economy’ – 30 quotes of the week on digital transformation

From digital change to Digital India, these quotes from the week of April 5-11 capture tech impacts sweeping across the world.

Madanmohan Rao

Your Story

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The techie behind the first Indian cybersecurity startup to work with US govt

Trishneet Arora founded TAC Security at the age of 19. It is a cybersecurity startup that is on a mission to secure cyberspace and become the...

Kanishk Singh

Your Story

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BR Ambedkar: institution builder, champion of depressed classes

The nation is celebrating the 130th birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar. His role as a social reformer, chairman of the draft committee of the Indian...

Arjun Ram Meghwal

Indian Express

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Legitimate use of force vs citizens’ consent: the challenge exposed by Sitalkuchi incident

Legitimate order signified by the symbolic presence of security forces is the essence of state-ness. As such, the fact that the Central Industrial...

Subrata Mitra

Indian Express

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Vaccine optimism

Almost three months after launching its Covid vaccination programme, India has managed to fully inoculate barely 1 per cent of its population. Even...

The Tribune Editorial

The Tribune

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Wheat purchase tardy

The Baisakhi celebrations of wheat farmers of Punjab have been dampened this season. The delay in the harvest of the rabi crop that is still...

The Tribune Editorial

The Tribune

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Vulnerabilities, equities, and progress

The ease and speed with which cyberweapons can be recycled heighten risks in ways that are incomparable to other domains of conflict. As...

Digital Frontiers

ORF

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FPJ Edit: Virus surge casts a grim shadow over economy

The latest surge of the coronavirus is proving to be far more challenging for the health authorities than the previous spreads. All having lulled...

Fpj Editorial

Free Press Journal

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Ambedkar put equality at the core of democracy

Yogendra Yadav President, Swaraj India We Indians have a way of belittling our icons. We turn Gandhi into a naive saint, a harmless preacher of...

Yogendra Yadav

The Tribune

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The promise of AI: Can it hold for environmental sustainability?

We need to be in a better position to do our homework and genuinely assess the environmental impact of digital technologies, including AI. We are in...

Digital Frontiers

ORF

3

All we want is a hotline to god, public safety be damned, writes Sumit Paul

‘Bola baccha dekh kar masjid aalishaan/ Allah tere rahne ko itna bada makaan!’ --Nida Fazli (Seeing a grand mosque, a surprised child exclaimed/...

Sumit Paul

Free Press Journal

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Writing up a living will makes life easier for oneself, the family and medical caregivers, says Narayani Ganesh

My father would have turned one hundred years old on November 17, 2020, had he been alive. But he would have been distressed at not being able to...

Narayani Ganesh

Free Press Journal

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By turning away refugees from Myanmar, India is betraying its ancient idea of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

By describing refugees from Myanmar as “migrants”, a deliberate attempt is being made to obfuscate the issue and avoid taking responsibility for...

Nandita Haksar

Scroll.in

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There is a magic number. It’s 37 per cent

You just got married and you’re ready to move out of your one-room bachelorette into a proper dream house. You and the love of your life start...

C Y Gopinath

Midday

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Tibet set for tough changes

Jayadeva Ranade President, Centre for China Analysis and Strategy China’s recently concluded national-level meetings, held in Beijing in March...

Jayadeva Ranade

The Tribune

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Variants making battle against the virus tougher

R Kumar President, Society for Promotion of Ethical and Affordable HealthCare Viruses undergo habitual mutation and coronavirus is no exception....

R Kumar

The Tribune

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Let them bloom where they belong

Parladh Randhawa I just saw a tweet from somebody who is fed up with the theft of flowers grown by him in pots, by strangers for use as offerings...

Parladh Randhawa

The Tribune

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Covid-19: Effects of Preventive Measures

By Abrar Yousuf Mir Currently, the whole world is dealing with one of the most severe pandemics ever seen in history, the first case of which was...

Opinion

Kashmir Images

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Viral waves: Thanks to the encouragement given to it by so many people the pandemic keeps resurging

Overheard, a conversation between two coronaviruses. 1st virus: Now we’re being accused of coming back in a second wave, nastier and meaner than...

Jug Suraiya

The Times of India

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Study shows tweaking gut bacteria through food supplements could help fight child malnutrition

In 2019, across the world, 144 million children under the age of 5 were stunted and 47 million suffered from wasting, as per Unicef data. The...

The Financial Express

The Financial Express

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Building capacity critical: In many cities, like Delhi, jumbo facilities need restarting

While a lockdown in Maharashtra increasingly looks a certainty, one in Delhi cannot be ruled out either. Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has said...

The Financial Express

The Financial Express

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The Kumbh debacle: Expanding India’s basket of vaccines is smart rethink. Stop unmasked mass gatherings next

Centre’s decision to fast track approvals for vaccines used in other countries is a welcome rethink that recognises the sheer magnitude of the...

Toi Edit

The Times of India

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Healthcare will never be the same after Covid – given how fast myths were shattered and consumer behaviours transformed

By Vikram Gupta, Alka Goel and Malay Krishna While the Covid pandemic has had a significant negative impact on global health, economy and society,...

Vikram Gupta

The Times of India

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End of the digital divide: Fast-spreading digital revolution offers a new growth path for India and other emerging nations

Emerging economies struggled to grow through the 2010s, and pessimism shrouds them now. People wonder how they will pay debts rung up during the...

Ruchir Sharma

The Times of India

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US naval fleet’s defiance of Indian law is not unprecedented. India must heed the message

The United States of America has always basked in its bluntness and candour. However, what it did recently is something of an “achievement” even...

Manish Tewari

Indian Express

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Why government’s recognition of allied healthcare professionals is a paradigm shift

The National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions Bill, 2020 (NCAHP) was passed by Parliament in March. It’s a historic event for two...

Preeti Sudan

Indian Express

6

Our digital futures: Rights, pluralism, or tech determinism?

It is a moment of awakening, as we are still suffering a pandemic that made “digital” the daily real — exposing divides and flaws, glitches and...

Digital Frontiers

ORF

5

रिजर्व बैंक के समक्ष चुनौतियां ज्यादा

मुख्य नीतिगत ब्याज दर को लेकर हर दूसरे महीने रिजर्व बैंक...

अजीत रानाडे

Prabhat Khabar

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To Overcome Vasanas

Anup Taneja A striking feature of Ramana Maharshi’s teachings is that they have a strong rational appeal because his realisation, being based on...

Economic Times

The Times of India

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What did Ambedkar like about Buddhism?

By Pranav Khullar Even as Mulk Raj Anand was etching out the character of Bakha, the untouchable boy, and articulating the exploitation of the less...

Speaking Tree

The Times of India

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Value chains disrupted: Navigating the American and Chinese contest for dominance

Decoupling, like sanctions as a geopolitical tool, can be a substitute for outright conflict, and this has started a controversy that is likely to...

Raisina Debates

ORF

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Managing Diabetes during Ramadan

GK: Is fasting possible for a diabetic? Prof Laway: Fasting during the holy month of Ramadan forms one of the five pillars of the Muslim faith....

Gk News Network

Greater Kashmir

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The coming decade and its implications for the LGBTQIA+ debates

If the last 10 years give any indication of how the next ten years will unfold, I predict there will be strong and brutal opposition to the...

Raisina Debates

ORF

4

What to Eat During Ramadan

During fasting hours when no food or drink is consumed, the body uses its stores of carbohydrate (stored in the liver and muscles) and fat to...

Shabir Lone

Greater Kashmir

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In the name of the Pandemic , patients condemned to wait

Once again, the pandemic is set to turn the entire healthcare system of Kashmir into a COVID19 management ward. Hospital after hospital will close...

Zehru Nissa

Greater Kashmir

5

Fragile health infrastructure

A year ago when outbreak of coronavirus hit countries across the globe, lockdowns were imposed as the only way out to fight the onslaught of the...

Sajjad Bazaz

Greater Kashmir

4

Remembering Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

“Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind...

Muneeb Rashid Malik

Greater Kashmir

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Nature: A Great Teacher

Nature is the fountainhead of beauty and solace. It soothes the heart, mind and soul; it refreshes with vigour and vitality. Nature is a best...

Bisma Farooq Sheikh

Greater Kashmir

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Editorial | The month of Relationships

Today is the first day of this year’s Ramadhan – the months of fasting. An entirely different atmosphere is witnessed in the Muslim societies...

Gk News Network

Greater Kashmir

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Automation in moderation: Preserving fundamental rights while moderating online content at scale

In order to safeguard against function creep, governments and platforms must be transparent about how and where automated tools are used. In a year...

Digital Frontiers

ORF

5

വിഷുക്കണിയും ശ്രീകൃഷ്‌ണന്റെ വിപ്ലവചിന്തയും

സൗരവര്‍ഷം ആരംഭിക്കുന്ന ഏപ്രില്‍ 14 ന്‌ ആണല്ലോ വിഷു...

Mangalam Author

Mangalam

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ലോകായുക്‌തയുടെ കടിയേറ്റ്‌ജലീല്‍

വര്‍ഷങ്ങള്‍ നീണ്ട ബന്ധുനിയമന വിവാദത്തിനൊടുവില്‍...

Mangalam Author

Mangalam

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