Daily Brief: Seven firms that failed drug quality test gave money to political parties through electoral bonds, and more

Seven firms that failed drug quality test gave money to political parties through electoral bonds

Drug regulation is just one area where the pharmaceutical industry seeks concessions from governments, say experts.

77% of DMK’s electoral bond money came from ‘lottery king’ Santiago Martin

Disclosures made by the Election Commission earlier had revealed Santiago Martin gave Rs 1,368 crore to political parties through electoral bonds.

BJP MP’s infrastructure company bought Rs 45 crore bonds while bagging Himachal dam project

Chintakunta Munuswamy Ramesh, a Telugu Desam Party MP who later shifted to BJP, had declared assets to the tune of Rs 258 crore.

7 lakh Muslims, 5 lakh Bengali Hindus left out of Assam NRC, says CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

Assam published a National Register of Citizens on August 31, 2019, with the aim to separate Indian citizens from undocumented immigrants living in...

Why the exodus from Bhutan of young people and qualified workers is a worry for India

Mass migration from the Himalayan country is likely to challenge India’s advantages in through decades of people-to-people relations.

Capturing the moments of a movement: Raghu Rai’s chronicle of JP and the Bihar students agitation

The photojournalist kept his camera trained on the Janta Dal leader, through rural Bihar and the streets of Patna to Delhi.

‘The Hippo Girl’: Each of these short stories has the potential to be a novel

The characters in Shah Tazrian Ashrafi’s stories are haunted by the history of Bangladesh, but it is not the only thing that defines them.

Prithviraj Sukumaran on what makes ‘The Goat Life’ special: ‘A deeply meditative character study’

Malayalam director Blessy’s ‘Aadujeevitham’, which has been dubbed into other languages, will be released on March 28.

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