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Editorial 24th  January 2025

Title: ​ ​WHO is right: On the U.S. leaving the World Health Organization President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), based on charges of bias, is stunningly short sighted, and deeply concerning to the global health community. Pundits are predicting

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Editorial 23rd January 2025

Title: ​ ​An exit of bluster: On the U.S. and the climate change fight President Donald Trump has fired his howitzers at multilateralism by signing into decree the United States’ withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement. This sets records that are in a class of their own. The

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 Editorial 22nd January 2025

Title: ​ ​The price of success: on Kerala’s demographic transition There can be too much of a good thing, after all. The demographic transition that Kerala has heralded in the country has now delivered a sucker punch to the State, with its maternal mortality ratio climbing. Kerala led

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Editorial 21th January 2025

Title: ​Capex quandary: on the economic data, policy  Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centre has been using public capital expenditure on infrastructure to pump prime the economic recovery. The mantra has been that infrastructure building will stoke demand for products such as cement and steel, generate jobs in

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Editorial 20th January 2025

Title: ​Murder most foul: On the R.G. Kar case The conviction of a former civic police volunteer on Saturday (January 18, 2025) in the rape and murder of a second-year postgraduate trainee doctor in Kolkata has brought some closure to her parents, but the struggle to make systemic

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Editorial 9th January 2025

Title: Cripple and scuttle: On vacancies in Information Commissions Nearly two decades after the passage of the Right to Information Act, it is quite apparent that governments, at least sections of it, are uncomfortable with the idea of transparency and empowerment associated with it. Amendments to dilute its

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Editorial 9th January 2025

Title: Cripple and scuttle: On vacancies in Information Commissions Nearly two decades after the passage of the Right to Information Act, it is quite apparent that governments, at least sections of it, are uncomfortable with the idea of transparency and empowerment associated with it. Amendments to dilute its

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Editorial 8th January 2025

Title: ​  Strong setback: On the Maoist movement and anti-Maoist operations When an insurgent organisation is faced with a precipice, it has two options — it can either go down with a fight and pull some of its adversaries across the cliff or it can see the futility

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Editorial 7th January 2025

Title: ​  Down, but not out: On the Border-Gavaskar Trophy A decade-long dominance wound to a close at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday. The Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the second-biggest silverware in terms of stature after the Ashes in cricket, and the biggest on the basis of viewership, has

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Editorial 6th January 2025

Title: ​ ​ No secret affair: on the  draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, is a long overdue advance in the direction of enforcing the fundamental right to informational privacy for Indians, affirmed by the Supreme Court of India

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