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The Tuesday Interview | 'Medical devices are the next big thing in India'

While there is a big medical device usage boom in a certain socio-economic class, digital and health literacy of the masses along with increasing compliance is a big challenge.

12 August 2024, 22:51 IST

The Tuesday Interview | 'Medical devices are the next big thing in India'

12 August 2024, 22:51 IST

Bapu would be disturbed by today’s world

I thought, ‘What would I tell Gandhiji?’

12 August 2024, 01:53 IST

Bapu would be disturbed by today’s world

12 August 2024, 01:53 IST

Seven years and counting: The resounding triumph of GST

July 1 will mark the seventh anniversary of the launch of GST. It needed political determination and a huge leap of faith in a taxation system that required both the Centre and the states to substantially surrender their fiscal powers.

30 June 2024, 23:29 IST

Seven years and counting: The resounding triumph of GST

30 June 2024, 23:29 IST

Making legalese gender-neutral

Although the Boilers Act, 1923, applies to all genders, it uses masculine terms such as 'Chief Inspector' and pronouns such as he, him, his, and himself. While feminine terms like 'Chief Inspectress' and 'Inspectress' exist, they are not used.

28 May 2024, 00:52 IST

Making legalese gender-neutral

28 May 2024, 00:52 IST

The Tuesday Interview | ‘UP is preparing to bid a grand farewell to BJP’

'The government has failed on all fronts. Prime Minister Modi is embroiled in the politics of the negative narrative he has tried to spin. People do not want to listen to it anymore,' said Yadav.

28 May 2024, 00:41 IST

The Tuesday Interview | ‘UP is preparing to bid a grand farewell to BJP’

28 May 2024, 00:41 IST

With high unemployment, is India losing its demographic advantage?

When the share of the working age population of a country exceeds that of the very young and old, the country lands in what is known as the 'demographic dividend zone'.

27 May 2024, 00:45 IST

With high unemployment, is India losing its demographic advantage?

27 May 2024, 00:45 IST

Climate action becomes a casualty as countries chase development

London-based think tank InfluenceMap, using a carbon major database, recently has revealed that state-owned coal, oil and gas companies produced more in seven years after Paris than what they produced seven years before.

12 May 2024, 21:49 IST

Climate action becomes a casualty as countries chase development

12 May 2024, 21:49 IST

The BNS: A missed opportunity for gender inclusivity and LGBTQ+ rights

Take, for example, Clauses 75 and 76 within the BNS, which seek to replace Sections 354B and 354C of the IPC. The IPC, in its original form, routinely employed gendered language in its descriptions of various offences and the parties involved.

20 September 2023, 20:54 IST

The BNS: A missed opportunity for gender inclusivity and LGBTQ+ rights

20 September 2023, 20:54 IST

Law and live-in relationships

Although marital rape is not presently a criminal offence under the Indian Penal Code, the fundamental nature of the crime—sexual intercourse without the wife’s consent—is applicable in the case of live-in relationships as well.

20 September 2023, 20:50 IST

Law and live-in relationships

20 September 2023, 20:50 IST

From NEP to SEP, state must craft a clear path for quality education

The new Congress government is certainly at liberty to conceptualise a fresh ‘State Education Policy’ (SEP) to replace NEP-2020 aligned with its 2023 election manifesto.

17 September 2023, 20:17 IST

From NEP to SEP, state must craft a clear path for quality education

17 September 2023, 20:17 IST