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This is a bird’s eye view of the shortfalls in medical sector regulation in India. A spurt of deaths and injuries from contaminated drugs, from Ayushman fraud, from patients being subjected to gratuitous treatment, underlines how agencies tasked to regulate healthcare are in shambles. The private sector in particular is running lawless – while accounting…

India is still reporting world-beating economic growth but no longer getting any love for it. Flows of foreign money into India have dried up, suggesting outsiders believe that the reported GDP growth rate of over 8% masks underlying weaknesses. Read full story on TOI+ Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Disclaimer Views expressed above are the author’s…

Iran, Nepal, Tunisia, or tsarist Russia, people take to the streets when they’re beggared for daily needs  Why is Iran on the boil? Its regime has a stock answer – foreign meddling. It blamed the foreign hand for protests that followed Mahsa Amini’s killing in 2022, and the riots after a gasoline price hike in…

India’s workhorse fails twice in a row. Are Isro’s expanding missions overstretching its resources? Yesterday’s PSLV-C62 mission had been pitched as doing significant service to both India’s strategic national requirements and global ambitions in the commercial space. Its failure, naturally, hurts both objectives. From Isro, Nasa, SpaceX to China and Russia’s space programmes, failures have…

This is not a common garden variety of disease It started as a tickle in the throat. And I was in complete denial. By mid-day, my doubts were becoming certainty. My throat was like sandpaper… Source link

When The Lancet released its global three-part series on ‘Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health’ in Nov, the reaction from the world’s largest food corporations was immediate, coordinated and revealing. International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA), representing major multinational UPF manufacturers, asserted its members “want to improve global health outcomes through diet quality” and that “food…

A few weeks ago, this column looked at how time has changed in shape and form. We now have two kinds of time— hard, that comes with fixed boundaries and imposes itself on us, and soft, that fluid, almost liquid time we spend streaming, scrolling and clicking on our phones. In the latter, time is…

A. Vivekananda first became known, not in India, but because he succeeded in spreading the message of harmony of religions to the Western audiences in USA, UK, Europe, talking and interacting both with societal leaders and common men and women, in simple English. For the first time he highlighted to the world the idea that all…

India’s AI debate is no longer technical. It is political, economic, and deeply personal. When decisions, services, and even justice start flowing through algorithms, the question becomes brutally simple: who owns the intelligence that runs your life? From UPI to IndiaAI, the Modi government’s bet is clear: build the rails at home, then let a…

2026 took me to a place I have always believed is as powerful as any battlefield: the World Book Fair. Walking into Bharat Mandapam this January felt different. Familiar, yet quietly stirring. This year, the fair greeted visitors with a theme that felt deeply personal to me:  Indian Military History: Valour & Wisdom @75.   I…