Priyali Dhingra

India’s female community healthcare workers have been at the frontline ever since the Covid-19 pandemic began in March 2020. From door-to-door surveys, at-home testing, and regular visits to containment zones, India’s ASHA, Anganwadi, and…
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The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare, in March 2021, submitted a report of its recommendations to the much-awaited Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Regulation Bill, 2020. The 129th report was presented to…
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Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress was able to create history in the erstwhile state of West Bengal after it swept the 2021 Assembly Elections and managed to win 213 seats in the 294-member legislative assembly, the highest any party has…
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The tragedy of COVID-19 is unfolding in the country and the second wave has uprooted rural migrant laborers from their urban dwellings, yet again. Ever since the Maharashtra government announced a lockdown 2 weeks ago, visuals of overloaded…
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In the wee hours of a Friday morning, Jwala Prashad unpacks himself from medical scrubs and prepares to go home. A ground staff worker at the Lok Nayak Jay Prakash Narayan Hospital mortuary, a seemingly aged Prashad has had a long night of…
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The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare had warned the central government of a second COVID-19 wave in a report (Report No.123) submitted in November 2020. Chaired by Rajya Sabha MP Ram Gopal…
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Industrial pollution in Kerala’s Periyar River continues to be one of the oldest and unresolved environmental issues in the state.  Decades of pollutants from industries harboured on the land of Eloor Island, located on the Periyar River,…
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In a hearing on Saturday, the Delhi High Court expressed worry over the rising ‘tsunami’ of COVID-19 cases in the national capital and rapped both Central and Delhi governments over the capital’s ongoing oxygen emergency. A two-judge bench,…
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Even with growth trends in our rural economy, rural wages in India for both men and women have declined in the last 6 years, reveals a new study by the Social & Political Research Foundation (SPRF). Published this week, the paper…
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As per the latest government bulletin, India, on Sunday, reported 1,620 COVID-19 deaths, the highest ever since the beginning of the pandemic, and 2.73 lakh new cases of the virus. For the fifth straight day, the country has reported more…
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