Insights Daily Debates: Issues that Matter – 34 ( India’s Outrage Industry lacks both common sense and objectivity)

      . Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 34 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here   India’s Outrage Industry lacks both common sense and objectivity Livemint Why the outrage on rapes and other crimes lacks objectivity in India? Why facts have become irrelevant or twisted? What does this say about Indian society …

Insights Daily Debates: Issues that Matter – 31 (India has Failed to win its War on Antimicrobial Resistance )

      . Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 31 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here    India has Failed to win its War on Antimicrobial Resistance Project Syndicate Why has India failed to fight antimicrobial resistance? Can it win this war? Why policies have failed? Is common man to be blamed? Is …

Insights Daily Debates: Issues that Matter – 25 (India should Revert to the old Practice of Paper Ballots in Elections )

      . Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 25 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here   India should Revert to the old Practice of Paper Ballots in Elections When there is so much allegation against EVMs, why not return to paper ballots? What is wrong in it? Doesn’t India have means to …

Insights Daily Debates: Issues that Matter – 24 (India should have Allowed Rohingya Refugees to take Refuge in India )

      . Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 24 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here   India should have Allowed Rohingya Refugees to take Refuge in India Al Jazeera The Hindu Why didn’t India allow Rohingyas to take shelter in India? What happened to its stature as a welcoming land for oppressed? …

Insights Daily Debates: Issues that Matter – 22 (Farmers have no Reasons to continue Farming in India )

      . Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 22 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here   Farmers have no Reasons to continue Farming in India The Wire What is the incentive for farmers to continue farming in India? Knowing they have least support either from government or from banks, why should they …

Insights Daily Debates: Issues that Matter – 21 (Compulsory attendance in Universities is not a Progressive Step )

      . Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 21 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here   Compulsory attendance in Universities is not a Progressive Step The Hindu The Hindu Why should teachers/administration force students to attend their classes? Should the debate on compulsory attendance be extended to other schools and colleges? What …

Insights Daily Debates: Issues that Matter – 20 (Active Euthanasia should be Permitted in India )

      . Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 20 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here   Active Euthanasia should be Made Legal in India  The Hindu Wikipedia If passive euthanasia is permissible, why not active euthanasia? If other democratic countries can make euthanasia legal, why not India? What’s fundamentally wrong is making …

Insights Daily Debates: Issues that Matter – 19 (Without Political Empowerment, Real Empowerment of Women will never Happen)

      . Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 19 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here   Without Political Empowerment, Real Empowerment of Women will never Happen   Don’t you think only political empowerment in its true sense can make women more empowered? Is it this truth that’s preventing men to give more …

Insights Daily Debates: Issues that Matter – 18 (Neither Politicians nor Religious Leaders Mediate in the Ayodhya Issue. It should be Settled by the Court of Law)

      . Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 18 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here   Neither Politicians nor Religious/Spiritual Leaders should Mediate in the Ayodhya Issue. It should be Settled Only by the Court of Law Indian Today   Why should religious or spiritual heads try to mediate Ayodhya issue? Why …

Insights Daily Debates: Issues that Matter – 17 (Use of Money Power in Indian Elections can not be Stopped even if Undermines Democracy)

      . Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 17 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here   Use of Money Power in Indian Elections can not be Stopped even if Undermines Democracy   Can use of money in Indian elections be stopped by any means? Don’t you think as long as political parties …

Insights Daily Debates: Issues that Matter – 15 (India’s budget priorities lack commitment to invest in women and girls)

      . Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 15 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here   India’s budget priorities lack commitment to invest in women and girls Livemint The Hindu What is gender budgeting? Is gender budgeting just a hype? How much commitments have union budgets shown in reducing gender inequality? Can …

Insights Daily Debates: Issues that Matter – 14 (Education can alone end gender disparity in India)

      . Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 14 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here   Education can alone end gender disparity in India) Is education panacea to end gender disparity in India? What evidence you have? Is power of education overrated? Is there anything beyond education that can liberate women? What …

Insights Daily Debates: Issues that Matter – 4 (National Health Protection Scheme will not help its intended beneficiaries)

      . Insights Daily Debates Issues that Matter – 4 ARCHIVES What’s this Initiative? Click Here   National Health Protection Scheme will not help its intended beneficiaries   Is National Health Protection Scheme(NHPS) intended to help insurance companies more than patients? Does this scheme have any agenda to improve public health system? Is NHPS …

Insights into Issues: Merger of Railway Budget into the General Budget

    Insights into Issues: Merger of Railway Budget into the General Budget   The almost century old practice of presenting a separate Railway Budget ahead of the General Budget is to be dispensed with from the next financial year (2017-18) and the Railway Budget will be merged with the General Budget. The proposal has …

Insights into Issues: Antimicrobial resistance

    Insights into Issues:  Antimicrobial resistance   Antibiotic resistance arises when bacteria evolve mechanisms to withstand the drugs which are used to fight infection.  It is one of the most important public health issues currently.  Antimicrobial resistance happens when microorganisms (such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites) change when they are exposed to antimicrobial drugs (such as antibiotics, …

Insights into Issues: Waste Management

    Insights into Issues: Waste Management   The Government of India had notified the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules in 2000, thereby making it mandatory for all urban local bodies in the country to engage in collection, segregation, secondary storage in covered bins, transportation in covered vehicles, processing through composting or waste-to-energy technologies and disposal …

Insights into Issues: Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016

    Insights into Issues: Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016   Status Quo on Surrogacy India has become the hub for surrogacy.  In 2002, India had become the first country to legalize commercial surrogacy. By 2012 India had become the surrogacy capital of the world with surrogacy tourism valued at 400mn$ annually (according to a UN 2012 report). …

Insights into Issues: Copyright Case verdict

    Insights into Issues: Copyright Case verdict   In The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford vs Rameshwari Photocopy Services case, the Delhi HC gave the verdict that photocopying portions of academic publications to make course packs for students does not amount to copyright infringement. Along with the verdict in Novartis case, …

Insights into Issues: Autonomous Vehicle Technology

    Insights into Issues: Autonomous Vehicle Technology   For the past hundred years, innovation within the automotive sector has created safer, cleaner, and more affordable vehicles, but progress has been incremental. The industry now appears close to substantial change, engendered by autonomous, or “self-driving,” vehicle technologies. An autonomous car  is a vehicle that is capable …