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New Drugs Bill is a Wolf in a Sheep’s Clothing

By Medhavi Mishra

Instead of increasing punishments for pharma companies, they are reducing them, and there will be long-term public health consequences if pharmaceutical companies do not have the right incentives under the law to produce the highest quality medicine, says Prashant Reddy, advocate and author of “The Truth Pill.”

Mounting highway fatalities: Why are we so lax?

By Rasheed Kappan

In 2021, 1.55 lakh lives were lost in road crashes in India. That amounts to an average of 426 accidents every day. This is a record, unprecedented in scale, unpardonable in an era when sound road and vehicular design, stringent law enforcement and technology could smartly arrest the dangerous slide.

The dark tales of India’s missing girls

By Muhammad Tahir

“We were locked in the room as we watched her burn,” recalls the victim’s daughters in this shocking story of female foeticide and gruesome murder. The dark tales of India's aborted daughters and missing females should be a wake-up call to our government, writes Muhammad Tahir.