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New marriage bill can cast the criminality net wider, draw more Indian women to courts & cops

Apoorva Mandhani -
Modi govt's bill to increase women's marriage age to 21 has been tied in knots, with questions being raised whether it can empower women or is just a quick fix.
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Kohli-Ganguly tiff shows what hasn’t changed about Indian cricket. Smells like Chappell era

Nidhima Taneja -
Back in 2005, Ganguly was standing where Kohli is in 2021. He was sacked as the captain of the national squad and eventually dropped from the team.
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Lesson from year-long protest: No govt, not even Modi-led BJP, can afford to annoy farmers

Moushumi Das Gupta -
From the siege of Red Fort to ‘toolkits’, pizza langar to foot massage – the farmers’ year-long protest was like no other in India.
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World’s still stuck with a ‘Delta wave’ hangover. For Omicron, we need to stick to basics

Mohana Basu -
Booster shots are like trying to stop a fire by pouring a mug of water repeatedly at one spot. Ensuring everyone is vaccinated is better in the long run.
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Poached leaders and anti-Modi rhetoric won’t be enough for TMC’s national goal in 2024

Abantika Ghosh -
Trinamool Congress may have emerged as the favoured political party for leaders in search of one, but TMC and Mamata Banerjee still have a long way to go.
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SC to smog tower to AAP-Centre data slugfest – Delhi’s air pollution is a no-brainer

Simrin Sirur -
Govt proposals to reduce air pollution, such as Graded Action Plan or lockdown, come either just before the smog season or when cities are already choking.
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‘People’s Padma’ Awards shows the best of India, and not just the elite

Vandana Menon -
From nominating deserving people to getting a chance to attend the awards ceremony, the Modi govt has changed the way Indians interact with the Padma Awards.
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COP26 is not just about India’s commitment to climate change. It’s also a message to the US

Simrin Sirur -
India’s headlining commitments on climate change came with another message that shouldn’t be skipped over.
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WHO-Covaxin-Modi govt is a triangle of confusion. No one knows what’s going on

Abantika Ghosh -
The fact that it’s taken so long for Covaxin to get approval casts doubt on not only Bharat Biotech, but also the regulatory process in India.
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NCB is high on NDPS — the law with loopholes. Rhea Chakraborty to Aryan Khan

Apoorva Mandhani -
From being a law that represented India's will against supply of drugs to being used as a tool to prosecute a select few, the NDPS Act has changed.
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Demonstrators attempt to enter the US Capitol building during a protest in Washington, D.C., U.S., on 6 January 2021 | Eric Lee | Bloomberg

Texas attack shows a long, violent struggle for America’s soul is inevitable

Praveen Swami -
The shock of Covid 19—both economic and cultural—has strengthened the maniacal conspiracy culture with which the American Right is suffused.
Photo of Subhas Chandra Bose | Commons

Subhas Chandra Bose wasn’t ‘anti-Savarkar’. Here’s how it’s more nuanced than you thought

File photo of students protesting against the reservation in Bandra | Representational image | ANI Photo

Indian drawing room talk on ‘merit’ stands demolished by Supreme Court NEET ruling

Economy

A visual representation of the digital Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin alongside US dollars | Photo: Dan Kitwood | Getty Images via Bloomberg

Joe Biden administration set to put itself at centre of US cryptocurrency policy

Jennifer Epstein -
An executive order is being drafted which will soon set in place a govt strategy empowering US federal agencies to assess risks and opportunities posed by the digital assets.

Defence

German Navy chief Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schonbach | Twitter: @chiefdeunavy

China ‘not that nice country’, giving money to dictators & killers: German Navy chief in India

Nayanima Basu -
Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schonbach later issued a clarification, saying comments were his 'personal view' and not German defence ministry's, and expressing them was a 'mistake'.

National Interest

Modi vs non-BJP CMs: When most popular isn’t all-powerful & why Centre-state ties will worsen

Shekhar Gupta -
Modi’s inability to win many states, and the huge popularity his rivals enjoy there, is pushing Indian politics in a more robustly federal direction.

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