PM Janaushadhi scheme an attempt to woo voters

Most of the Jan Aushadhi shops in Bangalore don’t have diabetes and hypertension medicines. Ministry of chemicals and fertilizers and Department of Pharmaceuticals announced that seven new Jan Aushadhi shops under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) will be opened in the city by May. However, the existing shops do not have all the […]

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A Growing Tyranny

Narendra Modi’s first term has witnessed a steady erosion in the institutions of governance “Today, democracy is at stake, secularism is in danger, the economy has collapsed, independent institutions are being destroyed and centre-state relations are deteriorating,”Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu recently warned at a political rally in Vishakapatnam. Ever since the Emergency of […]

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Kashmiri students treated shabbily after Pulwama

Strap across: Say they are shouted at, ignored, called anti-national Kashmiri students in Bengaluru are looked at with suspicion more than a month after a terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama. “My fellow students don’t interact with me properly anymore. They blame people from my state and, by extension, me for the Pulwama attack.They […]

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Sign language should be taught in schools, say the deaf

‘It will help us communicate with eveybody’ Hearing-impaired people and their trainers suggest schools introduce sign language in the curriculum to help disabled people lead a better life. “Schools could have sign language training. It would be of best help to people with hearing impairment. It is difficult for any person with hearing impairment to mingle in […]

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