The launch of Brazil’s Amazonia-1 satellite by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) comes weeks after India allowed the export of COVID-19 vaccine...

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Unseemly proposal

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The implications of a bench of the Supreme Court led by the Chief Justice of India asking a man accused of raping a...

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The thaw in Ladakh

NewsBoat.in - March 2, 2021 0

Written By Ameya Pratap Singh India and China have successfully completed their four-step disengagement plan in Pangong Tso, Eastern Ladakh. This plan had been...

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Government must ensure sufficient monitoring and safeguards as private entities are drawn into vaccination drive

NewsBoat.in - March 2, 2021 0

Since the start of India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive, more than a crore healthcare and frontline workers have received at least one dose of...

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Delhi has nothing to lose by exploring the seriousness of the Pak army chief

NewsBoat.in - March 2, 2021 0

What stands out from the surprising joint announcement of a ceasefire by the DGMOs of India and Pakistan last week is the clear...

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Dance like a teacher

NewsBoat.in - March 2, 2021 0

If there’s one thing that ordinary Indians do with rhythmic regularity, and with great gusto, it is break into a dance. There is...

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India, Pak, China must build on de-escalation, resist hubris that exults in unilateral triumphalism

NewsBoat.in - March 2, 2021 0

The announcement by India and Pakistan of “strict observance of all agreements, understandings and cease firing” along the Line of Control is a...

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Paler green

NewsBoat.in - March 2, 2021 0

In 2010, India became the third country after Australia and New Zealand to have a quasi-judicial body, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), for...

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Forty Years Ago, March 2, 1981: Budget and prices

NewsBoat.in - March 2, 2021 0

The direct impact of the changes in customs duties and lending rates in the Budget will be very little on the consumer price...

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For more online civility, we will need deeper engagement, careful legislation

NewsBoat.in - March 1, 2021 0

Social media platforms and digital content publishers are the protagonists of an unexpected regulatory blockbuster that hit the screens in India on February...

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For Operation Green to deliver, experience of raising milk production in Operation Flood can prove beneficial

NewsBoat.in - March 1, 2021 0

While presenting the Union budget for the FY 2021-22, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that Operation Green (OG) will be expanded beyond tomatoes,...

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The missing centre

NewsBoat.in - March 1, 2021 0

In a week when election dates for five assembly polls were announced, and when the G-23 within the Congress went a step further...

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Turning the corner

NewsBoat.in - March 1, 2021 0

The Indian economy appears to have turned the corner. After two consecutive quarters of contraction, it grew by 0.4 per cent in the...

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Economy is doing better in year’s second half. Pandemic scars won’t be erased merely by growth

NewsBoat.in - March 1, 2021 0

Between January and May each year, India gets to see two “advance” estimates and one “provisional” estimate of GDP growth, as more data...

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The second dose—myths and realities

NewsBoat.in - February 28, 2021 0

Written By Upendra Kaul and Meera Shah It is a remarkable feat that within a year of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we...

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At current pace of inoculation drive, vaccine wastage is becoming an issue

NewsBoat.in - February 28, 2021 0

At personal financial risk and with the support of international funding, Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla began manufacturing the Covishield vaccine...

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She Said: The good, the bad and the ugly

NewsBoat.in - February 28, 2021 0

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It’s important to remind those who sit in high office today that dissent is not sedition

NewsBoat.in - February 28, 2021 0

‘The offence of sedition cannot be invoked to minister to the wounded vanity of governments.’ The reason why I begin this piece with...

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Decision to give peace with Pakistan a fresh chance has personal imprimatur of PM stamped on it

NewsBoat.in - February 27, 2021 0

The joint statement of the Director Generals of Military Operations of India and Pakistan, reiterating their commitment to a “strict observance” of all...

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Raising the bogey of the ‘foreign hand’ feeds into Modi’s ultranationalist narrative

NewsBoat.in - February 27, 2021 0

International criticism of its management of the farmers’ agitation has presented an unexpected challenge for the Narendra Modi government: A perceptible shift in...

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Be cautiously aggressive

NewsBoat.in - February 27, 2021 0

India’s anti-COVID inoculation drive will enter a crucial phase from March 1. Senior citizens and people over the age of 45 with co-morbidities...

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Who gets to decide what is legitimate free speech — Big Government or Big Tech?

NewsBoat.in - February 27, 2021 0

While American lawmakers in Washington DC were preparing for a fresh round of tongue-lashings for the social media giants on Thursday, their counterparts...

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Centre’s new IT rules were much-needed to ensure online platforms are subject to law of the land

NewsBoat.in - February 27, 2021 0

Balancing the need for regulation to keep out obnoxious online content that promotes violence and vulgarity with the need to preserve our constitutional...

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