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Today is International Workers Day. Shreehari Paliath spoke to K.R. Shyam Sundar, a labour economist, and visiting professor at the Xavier School of Management, on what are some things on his wish list for labour empowerment in India. Read the full interview. | | | The World Health Organization is expected to come out with its estimates of the number of people who are likely to have died from Covid-19 across countries, a number that is likely to be higher than the official records of Covid-19 deaths. For estimating the actual deaths from Covid-19, experts compare the difference between total deaths in the years before the pandemic, and deaths during the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the Indian government has protested the WHO's methodology, the only country in the world to do so. Read this story by Rukmini S. on why India's objections don't hold water. | | | In a classic case of delayed justice, the National Green Tribunal and the environment ministry have, for the past six years, been deliberating on whether the government's World Bank-funded project—the Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) on National Waterway 1, commonly known as the Ganga waterway—needs an environmental clearance. This is when the project is already underway, and scheduled to be completed next year. Read Avli Verma's story on why the decision in this project will also have repercussions for fish and animals in India's other inland waterways. | | | For decades, India's family planning programme has focused on women, something that is apparent in the disparity in the proportion of men and women who undergo a vasectomy or sterilisation, respectively. Ranvijay Singh visited health centres in Uttar Pradesh to find out why men fear the operation, and why India's family planning programme needs to pay more attention to men. This story was first published in Hindi here. | | | ------
India is reeling under extreme heat waves after experiencing the hottest March in 122 years. Although heat waves are otherwise common to India, this one arrived early, and fiercely. Nidhi Jacob looks into climate trends and speaks to experts to understand why.
On World Malaria Day, FactChecker busted five popular misconceptions around the disease, ranging from whether a person can suffer from malaria more than once to if garlic can help ward off mosquitoes.
As forest fires flared with rising temperatures in Uttarakhand, Divyani Dubey took a deep dive into available data to find that the number of forest fires increased 10-fold in the past two decades and that 89% of extremely fire-prone areas coincide with drought-prone districts in India.
An unknown acute hepatitis strain has killed at least one child and affected 169 across 12 countries. While the WHO has linked it to a virus called the adenovirus, the root cause is still unknown. Here's what we know so far about the mystery hepatitis.
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