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6 days ago | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Atul Thakur |Rema Nagarajan
NewsIndia NewsIndia logged 19.7L excess deaths in 2021, 6x official Covid toll: Government dataTrendingOfficial data reveals a significant undercount of Covid-19 deaths in India during 2021. Excess deaths, calculated by comparing registered deaths to pre-pandemic projections, were about 20 lakh, six times higher than the official Covid death toll of 3.3 lakh. States like Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and West Bengal showed the highest discrepancies, while Kerala and a few others had the least.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Atul Thakur
NewsAuto NewsAdventure bikes poised to cruise in top speedTrendingBharat Mobility 2025 showcased various adventure motorcycles from major players like Hero, Yamaha, BMW, and TVS Motor. Hero Moto unveiled the Xpulse 210, priced at Rs 1.75 lakh, available next month. BMW's adventure motorcycles ranged from three to 25 lakh, while Yamaha presented the Lander 250 and Tenere 700. Suzuki launched the GIXXER SF 250 Flex Fuel, a lower CO2 emission sports bike.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
news18.com | Atul Thakur
India, while a relatively new modern democracy, is an ancient civilisation. To understand its foreign policy evolution, we should start with its independence struggle. The idealism driving this struggle laid a solid foundation for India’s foreign policies. The country’s commitment to the principle of peaceful coexistence has remained firm, even though this approach sometimes comes at a cost, such as in dealings with China.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Atul Thakur
Atul ThakurTNNUpdated: Sep 6, 2024, 14:33 IST ISTEven after an accused is caught, delays and issues with the legal process affect the conviction rateHeinous crimes against women have seen protests erupt across the country in recent weeks. But mostly, in such cases, the guilty escape punishment. If the investigation does not drag on, the trial may run indefinitely. If the trial is completed, it may result in acquittal rather than conviction.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
timesascent.com | Atul Thakur |Richa Gandhi
Once found, it shouldn’t be so difficult to feel. But since it is both — hard to find and too irregular to feel — there’s a surfeit of doctors doling out diagnoses that are confusing at best and contrasting at worst. The patient is improving and worsening at the same time!
We are, of course, talking about employment — quantity and quality of jobs being created across the country.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Atul Thakur
BJP got a larger chunk of India's urban votes than of votes in rural or semi-urban areas in the just concluded Lok Sabha polls. The saffron party got 40.1% of votes polled in the country's urban areas compared to 21.4% for the Congress. Moving away from the urban areas, the party's vote share saw a decline as it got 36.6% of the semi-urban votes and 35% of rural votes.Congress on the other hand saw its share in votes in semi-urban areas rise to 23.8%.
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May 10, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Atul Thakur
People tend to ignore the fact that a party might not be winning seats but still remain a force on the ground in terms of % of votes won. An analysis of BJP, Congress and seven other parties' performance reveals just howThe first-past-the-post system of voting — where electors cast a vote for a single candidate, and the candidate with the most votes wins — can often lead to counterintuitive outcomes. A party’s gain or loss of seats can many times be disproportional to its vote share.
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May 7, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Atul Thakur
Atul Thakur TNN May 6, 2024, 13:01 IST IST TOI speaks to voters across several seats in the region and finds them raising ‘regular’ election issues, unlike in 2014 and 2019, when the Modi wave was at its peak From the banks of Ganga in Anupshahr to the bridge over Yamuna near Chhaprauli; the sugarcane fields of Baghpat and potato farms in Khandauli near Agra to the hing (asafoetida) shops of Hathras; the Dalit enclaves of Agra to the rural population of Gautam Budh Nagar, the rippling...
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May 6, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Atul Thakur
“Budaun ke bare me batane ke liye kuch nahi hai (there is nothing to talk about Budaun),” said Chandan Singh a college dropout who works as a waiter in a restaurant at Indira Chowk, one of the upscale neighbourhoods of the city. The district is known for literary figures, classical singers and Sufi saints born there and the long list includes the likes of Shakeel Badayuni, Ismat Chughtai, Ada Jafri and Nizamuddin Auliya.
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May 6, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Atul Thakur
Atul Thakur TNN May 6, 2024, 13:01 IST IST TOI speaks to voters across several seats in the region and finds them raising ‘regular’ election issues, unlike in 2014 and 2019, when the Modi wave was at its peak From the banks of Ganga in Anupshahr to the bridge over Yamuna near Chhaprauli; the sugarcane fields of Baghpat and potato farms in Khandauli near Agra to the hing (asafoetida) shops of Hathras; the Dalit enclaves of Agra to the rural population of Gautam Budh Nagar, the rippling...
