In October 2014, the Karnataka cabinet, then helmed by Congress chief minister Siddaramaiah, renamed the district of Belgaum, with its over 1,200 villages on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border, to Belagavi. |
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| Antibiotics don’t work as well as they used to. This is worrying for the global medical industry that is heavily reliant on them. The surveillance efforts by ICMR can help, but the world must do more to push vaccines |
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| South African power-hitter David Miller looks to draw inspiration from his Gujarat Titans experience while leading in the SA20 league. |
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| There is a need to revisit the 100% employer-funded model of maternity leave, question whether the country is ready for paternity and gender-neutral parental leaves. |
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| In a market with a dearth of quality colleges, foreign universities can make a difference. |
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| The decision to immediately evict 50,000 people from a parcel of land belonging to the Indian Railways in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, was always going to be controversial. |
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| Over the years, in Faridabad and Gurugram, a large number of farmhouses, colonies, buildings, wedding halls, schools, even engineering colleges have come up on forest or commons land |
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| The deployment of Captain Shiva Chouhan at Siachen is imbued with symbolism. Her presence is a beacon to thousands of young women aspiring to serve in the military because it represents the shattering of the last apparent gender barrier, physical endurance |
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| The 3,570-kilometre Kashmir to Kanyakumari journey on foot seemed audacious for a cash-strapped party. A simple back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that the budget journey must have cost the party around ₹300 crore for 150 days |
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