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Putting food at the centre of India’s nutrition agenda

S.V. Subramanian William Joe

Reducing the burden of child undernutrition needs a policy goal — providing affordable access to quality food items

PARLEY | Comment

What challenges do online classes pose?

Shubashree Desikan

A million reasons to march

Navsharan Singh The farmers’ movement is now a battle not just for the peasantry, but also for justice and dignity

A sign of the WTO is seen on their headquarters in Geneva.

The many challenges for WTO

Dammu Ravi The next Director-General of the organisation will have to navigate through a slew of thorny issues

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A concert is more than just music

Converting waste to energy

PARLEY | Comment

What challenges do online classes pose?

Putting food at the centre of India’s nutrition agenda

The long road to food security

The many challenges for WTO

A million reasons to march

The farmers’ movement is now a battle not just for the peasantry, but also for justice and dignity

Privacy, a fundamental right the state must protect

An open and transparent government that also respects every citizen’s right to privacy is not a contradiction

A test for Ghana

For the second time in recent times, a candidate has challenged the outcome of a closely contested poll

Why Jawaharlal Nehru University matters

It is a lively national space, a microcosm of India with all its beauty and warts

Law and disorder

Several inadequacies in the justice delivery system lie hidden as disproportionate attention is given to the Supreme Court

From a digital India to a digital Bharat

The PM-WANI project seems to fit within the framework of an evolving decentralised concept to bridge the e-divide

India needs to rethink its nutrition agenda

Poor nutritional outcomes in NFHS-5 show that a piecemeal approach does not work

Tax policy in trying times

The events of the pandemic show how it is the need of the hour to modernise India’s archaic tax laws

Divided States of America

Support for Trump’s fabricated claims depicts anxiety about country’s changing ‘colour’

Convergence of agrarian discontent in South Asia

With protests becoming catalysts for anti-authoritarian struggle, the air is ripe for new visions of rural emancipation

Hazardous ideas for the Himalayas

By planning hydropower projects, India and China are placing the region at great risk

Innovations for cleaner air

Monitoring air pollution alone isn’t enough; India needs context-specific solutions to tackle the problem

A sector that needs to be nursed back to health

Nursing education in India suffers poor quality of training, inequitable distribution, and non-standardised practices

Pragmatic family arrangement, a new business chapter

The memorandum of family arrangement TVS announced gives it a chance to remain as an entity and seek new vistas

Are IT project managers facing an existential crisis?

If they become consultants for clients as well as learn coding, they will be valuable

Iran’s calculated risk

Iran is enhancing its nuclear programme, which can be reversed if talks with the U.S. are revived

The short shelf life of a news peg

For a news reporter, too much verification can sometimes be unhelpful

Why quarterly growth numbers are not robust

Official figures on GDP overestimate growth as they are based only on limited organised sector data

Stirring the pot in Venezuela

The U.S.-propped extreme opposition's boycott helped the Maduro-led PSUV win in the recent legislative elections

New paradigm for Dravidianism

Dravidian politics might soon face one of its greatest modern-day challenges — Hindutva

Thousand days of nutrition, and a billion dreams

The single greatest threat that blocks the promise of India at a foundational level is malnutrition

Lessons from Hyderabad

The GHMC election showed the utility and limits of divisive politics and the irrelevance of the Congress

The Marghazi festival in your living room

The online space has provided a democratic level playing field for artistes during these difficult times

The rise of the AI economy

Three areas need attention if India is aiming to become the AI powerhouse of the world

In Stanford ranking, hope for Indian science

Its grading of scientists could provide much-needed impetus in the backdrop of the National Research Foundation plan

Rajinikanth entry in politics | The politician in waiting

Rajinikanth’s announcement will upset the calculations of the dominant parties in Tamil Nadu

Investing in India’s youth

The skills development sector has grown in India, but has many challenges

Predicting protein structures

AI has resolved a long-standing problem

The ground has fallen out from beneath the farmer’s feet

The Farm Acts are farmer-unfriendly and in violation of important constitutional safeguards

True fiscal responsibility

Slashing public expenditure amid a recession is a recipe for serious economic disaster

The BJP’s big ticket to Telangana

The party’s solid gains in the Hyderabad civic polls lay bare the many failings of its key opponents

A mirage sold as a panacea for the unorganised sector

The labour codes will only better India’s ‘ease of doing business’ ranking instead of improving conditions of employment

A regressive agenda, a new low in governance

The U.P. ordinance not only violates guaranteed fundamental rights but is also in conflict with existing personal laws

A morale boost for policepersons

Those who have maintained law and order during the pandemic should be recognised for their efforts

Comment is free, but moderators pay

Moderating the online comment section is a tough and tricky job

Does India’s neighbourhood policy need reworking?

India should have a plan for continuous engagement at various levels

In farmers’ protests, the core is procurement

Farmers of Punjab and Haryana need the MSP-procurement system, but the government needs it even more for the PDS

Hard bargains and the art of policymaking

Discontent over the new farm laws is a result of sidestepping debate and discussion in Parliament

The purpose of a vaccine

It is crucial to define the outcomes we are expecting from population-level vaccination plans for COVID-19

A looming health crisis

Antimicrobial resistance is growing exponentially and needs to be tackled before it is late

Behind China’s wolf warrior diplomacy

Xi Jinping is deepening a ‘Chinese Communist Party-state’ brand of nationalism for a domestic and global audience

Why business barons should not run banks

They will not only enrich themselves but also crush competition

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