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Indore water contamination: 20 new diarrhoea cases detected; over 9,000 screened

Indore: Twenty new patients were detected in Indore on Sunday after health teams screened over 9,000 persons amid a diarrhoea outbreak caused by contaminated drinking water in the country’s cleanest city, officials said. Officials said health teams examined 9,416 individuals from 2,354 households during an ongoing survey in the city’s Bhagirathpura area, where six persons…

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Modi & Women Empowerment: Indigestible to a Discredited Opposition

By Alekya Pratap Neelakantam No honest observer can claim that all is hunky-dory on women’s issues in India. Isolated atrocities continue to scar society and demand collective introspection. Yet, to deny the scale, intent, and continuity of the Narendra Modi government’s push for women’s empowerment would be willful blindness. For decades, successive governments spoke the…

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Time for Modi to Clarify BJP’s Stand on ‘Parivar’ Politics

Few political slogans have defined the Bharatiya Janata Party’s rise as sharply as its relentless attack on dynast or parivar politics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, more than anyone else, has weaponised this narrative—projecting himself as the antithesis of inherited power, a leader who rose from the margins, armed only with merit, discipline and political instinct….

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Settled principles of international law can’t be violated unilaterally: Cong on US action in Venezuela

New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday expressed “grave concern” over the US action in Venezuela and said settled principles of international law cannot be violated unilaterally. Congress general secretary communications Jairam Ramesh said, “The INC expresses very grave concern on US actions relating to Venezuela in the past 24 hours.” “Settled principles of international law…

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