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By Pavitra Mohan |
India ushers in World Tuberculosis day in 2022 on 24 March with mixed feelings. As the COVID pandemic (hopefully) wanes…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
As the pandemic recedes, some memories will not. One of the more terrible outcomes of Covid-19 was the isolation of…
By T Jacob John |
The nation should be alarmed at the slow manner in which the administration has responded to the snowballing nature of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The repeal of the three farm bills is in the headlines. A little beneath the surface and reportedly all set for the…
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No one can allege that India’s health care system is all bad. It has worked some wonders. Two generations ago children…
By Ishan Chauhan |
Save those who have been termed ‘climate deniers,’ it is generally acknowledged that the climate crisis is a threat…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The official death count due to Covid-19 in India stood at over 400,000 around mid-July. It is widely understood and…
During the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in India, we had not realised that pregnant women could have serious…
By GN Bajpai |
The Covid -19 pandemic has mercilessly pummelled the health system globally. The human toll exceeds many times the…
By Ajit Ranade |
Last October, India and South Africa proposed in the World Trade Organization that intellectual property rights of…
The world’s second largest market for vaccines is India. The world’s largest vaccine producer (the Pune-based Serum…
By Ajit Ranade |
Our daily infections are more than the cumulative total of the next eleven countries, including large countries like…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
COVID-19 is a terrible disease that is killing us but the disease that allows this disease to thrive and spread with…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This week, April 7, is World Health Day, and we can expect discussions to be largely focused on the second wave of the…