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A climate change narrative that India can steer

Syed Munir Khasru

The Glasgow COP26 meet offers New Delhi a chance to update its Nationally Determined Contributions to meet targets

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Does NEET privilege the privileged?

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Make departments smart, first

Aditya Batra Ameya Ashok Naik Krishnakumar Thiagarajan E-governance holds the promise of improving local governance, but only if we pay attention to the basics

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Rulings that impact a State’s medical infrastructure

P.M. Yazhini Jeyannathann Karunanithi The removal of domicile requirement and in-service quota is affecting super-specialty medical education in Tamil Nadu

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Does NEET privilege the privileged?

Make departments smart, first

A climate change narrative that India can steer

A flawed calculation of inflation

Sea level rise is certain

Improving the economic game

Rulings that impact a State’s medical infrastructure

The removal of domicile requirement and in-service quota is affecting super-specialty medical education in Tamil Nadu

What counts is seldom counted

Census data in India are losing their relevance in the development agenda

Swooping down on algorithms

China’s draft rules on regulating recommendation algorithms address pressing issues but have a flavour of authoritarianism

Changing the agri exports basket

India has the potential to become a global leader in the food processing sector

The big deal behind the ruckus over AUKUS

China’s economic and military capacities as well as its belligerence have led to a shift in regional security paradigms

Time to criminalise marital rape

Doing away with the exception to marital rape would show non-tolerance by the state with respect to rape

The end of the doing business rankings

The Ease of Doing Business index was plagued with problems and deserves to be scrapped

Tackling hate speech

As there are no laws on hate speech as such, India needs a political and pedagogical solution to the menace

‘Fund and faculty’ count in higher education rankings

The new edition of the National Institutional Ranking Framework highlights the huge gap between the best and the rest

Holding transnational corporations accountable

Bilateral investment treaties can be harnessed in this effort

How the 9/11 wars changed the world

The war on terror strengthened Islamist and Islamophobic politics

Empathy through education

Social and emotional learning is not ‘fluff’; it is an important goal in education

The relative income, subjective well-being connect

A key policy lesson would be to pursue a strategy of shared growth through remunerative employment

A dark cloud in Kerala’s sky of communal harmony

Sane voices that have urged a walk back from recent instances of preaching hatred must be allowed to prevail

Building a resilient economy

Resilience at the national level can only be delivered through public investment

Is the BJP high command calling the shots in States?

There seems to be anti-incumbency in States as well as a concentration of power in New Delhi

E-Shram needs some hard work to get going

The nuances of the unorganised workers’ identity are complex which portal registration may not be able to capture

A relationship tied to Sharia law

The ‘new’ Taliban’s approach to women is not going to be any different from the ‘old’ Taliban

NEP schools: the future

COVID-19 brought the online model sooner than we imagined.

Tamil Nadu’s unending dilemma with NEET

The courts will have to come up with a solution to the question of medical admissions by next year

‘Know the enemy, know self’ is sound professional advice

It can be achieved if the national leadership and military education system have access to full-time domain specialists

Should children be given COVID-19 jabs?

The debate on opening up schools should be delinked from the discussions on vaccinating children

Powering ahead in the future

We can ensure that manufacturers overcome their reluctance to enter the electric vehicles market

Partners in the Indo-Pacific

The ‘2+2’ dialogue between India and Australia will provide substance to an already meaningful partnership

Behind the great Indian Internet shutdown

The tag of the world’s Internet shutdown capital stems from a lack of compliance with Supreme Court guidelines

Archakas of all hues

Caste orthodoxy and patriarchy entrenched within the realm of the HR&CE Act can be eliminated together

In Manipur, a case for asymmetric federalism

Institutionally accommodating tribal distinctiveness as an enduring good will promote the State’s integrity

Finding contentment in the chaos that is women’s tennis

Some argue that women’s tennis is too unpredictable, but it is that very quality that makes it thrilling

COVID-19, kidney injury and need for a vaccine shot

A Mayo Clinic study into the body’s immune response to the virus supports the need for widespread vaccination

What the Q1 GDP numbers say

With improved revenues, government must increase expenditures to push consumption and investment

A selective nuclear policy

The protracted stand-off over North Korea reinforces the hollowness of the doctrine of deterrence

September 11 — a brief personal reflection

The moral status of one’s criticism of those in power is not independent of one’s geographical and ideological location

Why hasn’t marital rape been criminalised in India yet?

Parliament and courts have missed opportunities to bring in changes on this sensitive issue

Where are the programmers?

Inadequate teaching has given rise to an aversion of programming across campuses

The national security discourse is changing

Policymakers and practitioners are leading the emerging consensus on the need to fundamentally reassess assumptions

Detecting Fragile X Syndrome

The symptoms cannot be treated but early detection and therapy can improve the individual’s quality of life

A questionable quota policy

A proposal of the Odisha government betrays its lack of political will in improving government schools

Green hydrogen, a new ally for a zero carbon future

It holds promise as an alternative, truly clean fuel and in aiding the world’s decarbonisation goals

Refining the reservation policy

Political parties should consider making substantive changes to the way reservation is implemented

Needed: A tribunal for CAPF

It would ensure speedy delivery of justice and reduce the burden of the High Courts

Decoding asset monetisation

The NMP is a bold initiative but its success is not assured

The economic reforms — looking back to look ahead

The fundamentals need to be set right with a focus on human capital, technology readiness and productivity

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