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May Day Dramatised
When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.
Great Number Game of Vaccine Funding: Zero Allotment = Rs. 35000 Crores !!!
Image Courtesy:moneycontrol.comFor more than over a month since last...
Bengal Redux: ‘They have no idea about us: we were born and raised in struggle, forged in mass movements…’
The unseemly centre-state tussle over the recently retired chief secretary of West Bengal has been initiated by the Centre and the govt would be wise to end this now
Covid-19 vaccines: How did 9 pvt hospitals corner 50% doses?
According to government data the “cumulative number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has exceeded 22.78 Cr” by Saturday
Delta variant, a. k.a B.1.617.2, is 50 percent more contagious: UK study
Even as positivity rate dipped below 10 per cent now, experts have warned that India cannot take it easy yet
Assam paper mill auction: Employees’ unions demand revival
Two paper mills that have been defunct for over five years, employees lost their only source of income
EXCLUSIVE: PM must intervene, stop misinformation campaign, recognise Covid martyr medics: IMA chief
Indian Medical Association (IMA) president Dr JA Jayalal tells SabrangIndia that attacks on doctors are a big worry, as is delay of compensations to medics martyred to Covid-19, and misinformation being spread about vaccines
Justice Mishra’s appointment as NHRC Chief shows govt’s disregard for human rights: CJAR
The Prashant Bhushan-founded CJAR issued a strongly worded statement pointing out Justice Mishra’s controversial judicial legacy
Bengal Redux: BJP’s Revenge Card Boomerangs
A cynical and divisive campaign that the Modi-Shah spin masters lost is now unfurling into a vendetta driven C-grade horror movie in Bengal
594 doctors died during second wave of Covid-19: IMA
Delhi ranks highest in terms of doctor deaths in 2021, during the second wave of the pandemic
NHRC chairmanship contender Justice Arun Mishra’s legacy
High-powered recommendation committee has reportedly proposed Justice Mishra’s name to lead National Human Rights Commission
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