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Jobs are always the central issue in any economy. Elections are won and lost on unemployment figures. After all, they are about human beings. People have to earn money from jobs for the goods or services they first produce and then consume which make

India has taken on the critical task of supplying medicines to countries across the globe by enhancing production and expediting export clearances to meet the explosion in demand for drugs such as Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Paracetamol. Medicines h

Swamitva is a new central scheme to grant legal recognition to residential properties in rural areas. After they are mapped and cleared, houses in surveyed areas will be allotted numbers and issued property cards The Union panchayati raj ministry in

One Congress leader who hasn’t found favour with either Team Rahul or the old guard is Shashi Tharoor. The Thiruvananthapuram MP is one of the five in the party to have won three consecutive Lok Sabha elections. Last year, Tharoor was ignored for the

An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952 By Pallavi Raghavan HARPERCOLLINS ₹396 (Kindle); 260 pages Given the sheer significance of the India-Pakistan relationship, the paucity of careful and informed scholarship about i

Migrant workers, hundreds of thousands of whom made their way back to native villages and towns across India in March as the COVID-19 outbreak shut down factories and other avenues of their employment, are a grim reminder of the unique challenge the

By Bhanwar Meghwanshi (Translated by Nivedita Menon) NAVAYANA ₹399; 240 pages When the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) held a much-publicised three-day lecture series in New Delhi in September 2018, attendees were greeted by two gigantic free-stan

The RSS is discovering the benefits of online meetings. Its workers have shifted their daily morning sessions,called shakhas, to digital platforms such as Webex and Say Namaste. An appeal by RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat to around 5 million swayam

With a third of the world’s humans under lockdown, the skies are blue and rivers run clear. Bears, nilgai and elephants wander through deserted city streets. If these signs of Nature reclaiming the planet unsettle the order of life-as-we-know-it, wor

On April 26, Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren retweeted a purported phone conversation in which two ‘journalists’ were allegedly discussing how to get some tribal people to pose with empty utensils in Barhait, his assembly constituency. A day ea

While the benefits of e-learning are many, this overnight shift from offline to online study may affect students’ learning. Lack of engagement leaves students demotivated. Schools offer a structured learning environment, which cannot be achieved when

COVID-19 and the ensuing lockdown have changed our lives in unexpected ways. Schoolchildren who a few months ago were negotiating with parents for some extra screen time—often with limited success—now find themselves attending online classes and stud

Q. You are only the fourth Indian stand-up artist to have a Netflix special. Were there nerves? Well this ( Yours Sincerely, Kanan Gill) is my third hour, so I can say with confidence that there are always nerves. The process of putting [together] a

othing goes viral like a virus. Unless it’s a video N of Ramdas Athawale chanting “Go Corona Go”. On March 10, the Union minister organised an event to destroy the virus, simply by telling it to leave. The joke had already written itself, it only nee