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Take-Home Rations: A route to nutrition security
August 28, 2020, 9:01 PM IST
The disruption of food systems by Covid-19 and its impact on the availability of nutritious food in large parts of the country has brought to light the importance of the Take-Home Rations (THR) programme and…
August 28, 2020, 9:01 PM IST
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Nutrition and immunity – The inextricable link
August 28, 2020, 3:01 PM IST
The desire for good health is universal and yet, in many ways, it often plays second fiddle to other aspects of our lives – career, money, travel, family, etc. The role of nutrition in good…
August 28, 2020, 3:01 PM IST
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Kahlil gibran and data regulation
August 28, 2020, 2:32 PM IST
“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you”, quips Kahlil Gibran, the mystic poet, in his celebrated work Sand and Foam. It appears that…
August 28, 2020, 2:32 PM IST
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E-commerce needs an enabling ecosystem, not heavy regulation
August 27, 2020, 4:19 PM IST
This is not a good time to be a Medium, Small or Medium Enterprise (‘MSME’) owner in India. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a near-disastrous decrease in demand. The rising military tensions with China,…
August 27, 2020, 4:19 PM IST
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Response Fatigue in Covid Long Haul
August 26, 2020, 12:00 PM IST
-Akshay Rout More than the race for the vaccine, and the question whether to believe the Russian and Chinese vaccine or not, the larger and real reality confronting the Covid-ridden world is what the WHO…
August 26, 2020, 12:00 PM IST
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REIT – What should small investors look for!
August 25, 2020, 10:43 PM IST
It is strange how investors behave at times. During good times when India’s office market was witnessing one of its strongest growth, the Embassy REIT, listed in March 2019, was oversubscribed by 2.57 times. The…
August 25, 2020, 10:43 PM IST
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Strategies developers should use to create a trusted personalised home buying ecosystem virtually
August 24, 2020, 7:11 PM IST
The pandemic brought with itself unprecedented implications that were extremely terse for individuals across the board. It dismantled the concept of what any man considered ‘normal’, paving the way for an altogether new approach. Right…
August 24, 2020, 7:11 PM IST
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Investing in local leadership nurtures social capital
August 24, 2020, 2:34 PM IST
Over the past five months of the corona virus pandemic and attendant lockdown since March 24, many media reports have highlighted extensive relief provided by civil society and NGOs. The forms of assistance and relief…
August 24, 2020, 2:34 PM IST
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The spitting virus
August 22, 2020, 7:38 PM IST
Independence Day has many resonances for me but this year of the pandemic, the year 2020, has a peculiar twist. It was my first experience of life in a closed community environment with many shared…
August 22, 2020, 7:38 PM IST
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Telemedicine: The next technology frontier in the healthcare ecosystem in india
August 21, 2020, 6:38 PM IST
Technology infusion in the healthcare along with expanded infrastructure and efficiencies from process improvements is helping improve the care accessibility and affordability. Telemedicine has become a fundamental piece of the Indian healthcare system. Since the…
August 21, 2020, 6:38 PM IST
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Covid-19: Opportunity to re-enable the $5 trillion dream
August 21, 2020, 6:13 PM IST
India’s goal of $5trillion till the first half 2020 had a misty road ahead. All that could have gone sideways had already occurred. Since the inception of the idea in August 2019, India should have…
August 21, 2020, 6:13 PM IST
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One health for sustainable and secure future
August 21, 2020, 5:11 PM IST
One Health is a multi-sectoral approach that recognizes the interconnectedness between humans, animals, and the environment and an effective response mechanism to prevent emerging infections. Originating in December 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has without a…
August 21, 2020, 5:11 PM IST
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From ‘chori’ to ‘madame’ to ‘sir’… a journey into history
August 21, 2020, 3:54 PM IST
With tempers pouring fire on the portrayal of a helicopter pilot in a recent Netflix biopic, allegedly showing a Force in poor light, I was reminded of my time as the Commanding Officer of my…
August 21, 2020, 3:54 PM IST
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Overseas migrants flying back to the state take a sigh of relief!
August 21, 2020, 8:35 AM IST
Coronavirus still exists and so do the people stranded in different corners of the globe. Since the beginning of this pandemic, many lives have lost way towards their abode and were stuck in different countries…
August 21, 2020, 8:35 AM IST
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Biofuels for cleaner skies and healthier people
August 20, 2020, 9:35 PM IST
The Covid-19 pandemic is a war that’s being fought on many fronts – medical, economic, political, industrial, personal, and environmental. The environmental one is just as important as the others but hasn’t been acknowledged quite…
August 20, 2020, 9:35 PM IST
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Exchanging banned notes can be a good step for India to re-win Nepal’s trust
August 20, 2020, 9:23 PM IST
Recently, India-Nepal relations have come under scrutiny over the demonetized Indian currency sitting in Nepal. An official study estimates that Nepalese banks, financial institutions, and individuals hold more than Rs. 7 billion (about $108 million)…
August 20, 2020, 9:23 PM IST
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NEP a changing face of the education system- Boon for the differently abled
August 19, 2020, 7:37 PM IST
New Education Policy states in its introduction, “Education is fundamental for achieving full human potential, developing an equitable and just society, and promoting national development”. The NEP is a change-maker and would like to evolve…
August 19, 2020, 7:37 PM IST
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Behaviour change is about learning
August 18, 2020, 4:56 PM IST
“wash hands frequently”, “use hand sanitiser”, “wear mask”, “maintain physical distance (of 6 ft)”, “work and study from home”….a series of instructions have been communicated to all Indians (indeed all citizens around the world) since…
August 18, 2020, 4:56 PM IST
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Dismantling disciplinary boundaries and decolonizing young India: Decoding the National Educational Policy (2020)
August 18, 2020, 4:36 PM IST
The academic journeys of the Austrian-Irish quantum physicist, Erwin Schrodinger and the Hungarian-American geophysicist Joseph Kaplan might seem strikingly relevant to the emphasis put upon multidisciplinary education, inclusive of the Indian knowledge systems, in the…
August 18, 2020, 4:36 PM IST
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Covid-19 implications for flexible space
August 18, 2020, 3:03 PM IST
In human history, there have only been a few times that made it impossible for humans to predict what the world could look like in the coming month, let alone predicting the coming year. Imagining…
August 18, 2020, 3:03 PM IST
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