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  Increase the allocation to health in the upcoming budget to minimum of 3% of the GDP

  26 January 2025, by Arun Mitra

  Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) Email: idpd2001[at]hotmail.com
  Date: 22.01.2025
  Press Note
  In a letter written to the Finance Minister Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman, the Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has demanded that allocation to health should be increased to at least 3% of the GDP in the upcoming budget. Considering the GDP in 2023-24 as 173.82 lakh crores, the allocation to the health in the previous budget of the central government which was 89287 (…)

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  A Maverick Whose Instinct Worked | N. Sathiya Moorthy

  26 January 2025, by N. Sathiya Moorthy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  A Maverick in Politics
  by Mani Shankar Aiyar
  Juggernaut
  Pages: 410 Price: Rs 711
  ISBN: 9789353457679
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  At a time when commentaries on current affairs have become a rarity, three-term Congress MP, Mani Shankar Aiyar

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  Dissecting What Destroyed Prabhakaran, LTTE | Sivadas Sankar

  26 January 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  The Rout of Prabhakaran
  by M.R. Narayan Swamy
  Konark
  Pages: xvii + 142; Price Rs 895
  (Also includes Inside an Elusive Mind: Prabhakaran: The First Profile of the World

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  1912 Map of Port of Spain and suburbs

  25 January 2025

  Plan of Port of Spain and suburbs. Scale of feet, 40 [= 160 mm]. Revised plan prepared by J. Girod Shelfmark: Maps 82550. (1.) Place and date of production: Port of Spain: Muir, Marshall & Co., [1912] Credit: From the British Library archive

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  Cartoon: This talk of illegal migrants by Nala Ponaappa

  25 January 2025
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  Film Still from Satyajit Ray’s 1963 film Mahanagar (Big City) with Uttam Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri & Madhabi Mukherjee

  25 January 2025
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  Music: J.J. Cale/ Eric Clapton- After Midnight Live From Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004

  25 January 2025

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 3, Jan 18, 2025

  18 January 2025

  * Demand for MG-NREGA work growing, additional budget needed | Bharat Dogra
  * Manmohan Singh

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 18, 2025

  18 January 2025

  Letter to the readers, Mainstream, 18 Jan 2025
  A deal has been negotiated between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza and is supposed to take effect starting Jan 19. All must welcome this ceasefire agreement. Let us hope there are no last-minute hick-ups and that the ceasefire happens and the process of release of Israeli hostages begins in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and ultimately ending the 15-month-long genocidal war that has killed over 60 thousand and displaced a million (…)

• Demand for MG-NREGA work growing, additional budget needed | Bharat Dogra

  18 January 2025, by Bharat Dogra

  The coordinator of Mahila Sangathan (women