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The issue of fake medical asylum not just affects the case in question but drags the entire investigative and judicial process. This can only be curbed to an extent if the medical boards in such hospitals are scrutinised and held accountable. The doctors must be treated as an accomplice to the crime for derailing the investigation, writes Jayanta Bhattacharya.

While there has been some discussion on discriminatory treatment of members of oppressed communities like tribals, Dalits, women, and queer communities, religion is a taboo topic and often not taken into consideration in understanding our biases and such partisanship in healthcare profession is hardly addressed.

The government’s decision to enforce the GST hike on July 18 evoked nationwide protests from political parties, traders and the public. But what implications will these decisions have on the state of our economy? Ravi Nair writes for The Probe.

If free and fair elections have to be conducted in the country, in the interest of democracy, people must be made aware of the names of the donors who fund political parties they vote for.

“Records of streamflow, an important indicator of flood hazard, go back less than 70 years in Bangladesh and north-eastern India,” says Dr Mukund Palat Rao of Columbia University who along with colleagues, recently did a study that brought together observations from tree ring patterns with climate model projections to build a 700-year history of water discharge from the Brahmaputra river.

Unfortunately, the rise of ethnonationalism is almost always accompanied by majoritarianism, discrimination of minority groups, authoritarianism and violent extremism. And in this, India is no exception.

If the crisis in the Indian tea industry is not forestalled, it could very well turn into one of the biggest problems facing the sector. The Probe's Ashutosh Dixit explains why the Ministry of Commerce must swiftly act before the situation takes a turn for the worse.

On World Food Safety Day 2022, we look at what is plaguing India’s food safety and security system. From rotting food grains in godowns to unsafe and ill-equipped food testing laboratories, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) need a complete revamp. Here’s why.