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North Indian CMs went overboard on sterilisation targets because of Sanjay Gandhi: Karan SinghVeteran politician Karan Singh revealed the 1975-77 forced sterilization drive stemmed from north Indian chief ministers seeing Sanjay Gand...- Feral dogs turn into Ladakh’s 'most dangerous predator', endangering rare Himalayan speciesFeral dogs have emerged as Ladakh’s most dangerous predator, threatening rare wildlife and human safety. Fuelled by poor waste management, ...
- 37,00,000 a year, 10,000 per day: The startling scale of dog bites in IndiaIndia’s dog bite crisis is spiralling into a serious public health challenge, with numbers that experts describe as deeply alarming. In 202...
- One SC order, million problems: How removing over 10 lakh+ dogs could lead to zoonotic diseases & more aggressive straysSupreme Court's order to relocate Delhi-NCR's stray dogs to shelters has sparked concerns among officials and animal welfare advocates. The...
- Why were films like Aandhi, Nasbandi and more silenced during Indira Gandhi’s Emergency era?During the 21-month Emergency in India, the government imposed strict censorship on arts and cinema, leading to the banning, stalling, or s...
- Emergency: When Prakash Karat went underground, took refuge in AIIMSCPI(M) leader Prakash Karat recalls his experiences during the 1975 Emergency, including going underground and seeking refuge at AIIMS. He ...
- 50 years after Emergency: India confronts its sterilisation past, potential of demographic futureAs India commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Emergency, the trauma of forced sterilisation campaigns during that period continues to r...
- ‘Understood Emergency only while executing warrants’: Retired Delhi cop reflects on 1975 crackdownVijay Malik, a former Delhi Police officer, reflects on the Emergency's 50th anniversary, recalling his experiences executing warrants agai...
- Video: CCTV captures dog mauling teenager inside Noida housing society liftIn Sector 107 of Noida, a girl faced a terrifying encounter with a dog inside a lift at the Lotus 300 Society, which was captured on viral ...
- Giving 28GHz waves for space applications won't hit 5G services: ISpAThe allocation of the 28 GHz band remains a contentious issue between satellite service companies and terrestrial network operators such as...
- View: Two types of people argue for state intervention in birth rates. Both miss or ignore evidenceSince 1980s, India’s population has grown by a smaller percentage in each subsequent decade. Even better, the rate of decrease has been acc...
- View: Do not go down the vasectomy wayVaccination is not vasectomy. But an invasive force of the Indian healthcare system is not everybody’s buddy — certainly less among the rur...
- Monetary policy likely to normalise in Q4To nurture its revised state-based forward guidance, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) added the word ‘revive’ to acknowledge the scar of...
- Covid vaccination can start by January if SII gets nod: Adar Poonawalla“By this month-end, we might get emergency licence, but the actual licence for wider use might come in at a later date. But we are confiden...
- View: Why National Education Policy 2020 may not change India's govt schools for betterMost of the education sector reforms listed in NEP are unlikely to work if teachers continue to spend less than a fifth of their working ti...
- Indira Gandhi at 100: Why is she still relevantMy own memories of the lady are inextricably tied to the Emergency, when she danced like a present-day Kali on the corpse of Indian democra...
- Yogi Adityanath government to roll out a new family planning scheme in Uttar PradeshThe scheme includes measures like a family planning kit for newly-weds in rural areas, which will include two packs of condoms, a marriage ...
- Steve Forbes calls note ban as immoral as 'nasbandi'Steve Forbes has not only found note ban an economic catastrophe but a highly immoral act by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- Demonetisation is like Nasbandi drive of the 70s, says Shankar Sharma; other D-St veterans beg to differSome of the cash-driven segments of the economy such as real estate, retail trade, hotel, white goods and restaurant have been virtually cr...
- 15 killed in bomb blast outside polio centre in PakistanToday is the third day of a three-day anti-polio campaign which was launched in Quetta and other districts of Balochistan on Monday.
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