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Lockdown Has Limits: India Needs to Ramp Up Testing, Restore Economic Activity in a Calibrated Way

Being unable to identify infected households, we are resorting to the hammer approach of locking everybody down. This would impose unacceptable economic costs....
Alok Kumar-April 23, 2020,5:09 pm IST Opinion
OPINION| Does India Need New Strategies to Improve Urban Health and Nutrition?

As per the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), 38 per cent of urban poor children under five years are stunted. ...
Alok Kumar and Khushboo Saiyed-October 22, 2019,5:47 pm IST Opinion
How Nitish Kumar Bagged Dream Deal for 2019, Left Bihar BJP Stunned

The BJP’s decision to contest the same number of seats as Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) has sent shockwaves across the saffron party’s state leadership....
Alok Kumar-October 29, 2018,8:53 am IST Politics
Amit Shah Dials Kushwaha, Crucial Seat Sharing Talks With RSLP to Take Place in Delhi Today

The RLSP is a part of the BJP-led NDA in the state whose other constituents are Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and Ramvilas Paswan’s LJP....
Alok Kumar-October 29, 2018,8:19 am IST Politics
Ram Vilas Paswan Unlikely to Contest Lok Sabha Polls, May Take the RS Route

The Lok Janshakti Party leader's son Chirag Paswan said rigorous campaigning may take a toll on his father's health and it's better for him to be in the Rajya Sabha. ...
Alok Kumar-October 28, 2018,11:57 pm IST Politics
Kanhaiya Kumar Makes Political Debut at CPI's Anti-BJP Rally, But Tejashwi's Absence Raises Questions

Giving his first political speech from the party platform, Kanhaiya acknowledged that there was no single party that could defeat the BJP and urged all opposition parties to unite for the purpose....
Alok Kumar-October 25, 2018,8:49 pm IST Politics
JD(U) Says BJP Gave a ‘Good Deal’ on Seat Sharing for 2019, But Not All Allies Like the Latest Formula

Nitish Kumar's party said it would either contest equal amount of seats or one less than the BJP in 2019 Lok Sabha polls. ...
Alok Kumar-October 23, 2018,9:08 pm IST Politics
BJP is Now Using Goddess Durga Against Me, Says Kanhaiya Kumar

During his Bihar sojourn, Kanhaiya has already been booked on three accounts — intimidating doctors at AIIMS, Patna, inciting riots, and hurting religious sentiments of Hindus in his speech....
Alok Kumar-October 23, 2018,8:31 am IST Politics
From Shahabuddin's Den Siwan, Tejashwi Signals He’ll Follow in Footsteps of Father Lalu Yadav

Tejashwi held a closed-door meeting with Shahabuddin's wife Hena Shahab at their Pratappur residence, the same place where the gangster-turned-politician and his henchmen had murdered two sons of Chanda Babu in 2004 by drenching them in acid. ...
Alok Kumar-October 22, 2018,7:20 pm IST Politics
Woman Visits Bihar Tantrik to Conceive Male Child, Gang-Raped By 6 Men at His 'Adda'

The rape survivor and her husband had gone to Bihar to meet a Tantrik whose medicines were said to help conceive a male child....
Alok Kumar-October 22, 2018,5:48 pm IST India
Giriraj Singh Hails Yogi For 'Prayagraj', Says Names of All Places Linked with Mughals Must Change

Union minister Giriraj Singh advocated erasing all signs of Mughal and medieval era rulers, terming them as invaders who destroyed Indian culture....
Alok Kumar-October 23, 2018,11:47 am IST India
Kanhaiya Kumar, Bajrang Dal Supporters Clash in Bihar's Begusarai; 6 Injured

Kanhaiya Kumar and the Bajrang Dal supporters have filed FIRs against each other....
Alok Kumar-October 16, 2018,8:13 pm IST Politics
Maoists Blow up Railway Tracks in Jharkhand, Alert Gangmen Prevent Major Accident

In protest against the death sentence awarded to two of its cadres who were convicted of killing then Pakur Superintendent of Police Amarjit Balihar in 2013, maoists are observing a two-day long Bandh in Jharkhand....
Alok Kumar-October 16, 2018,6:30 pm IST India
'Alliance Can Never Dictate my Commitment to Fight Crime, Communalism, Corruption': Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar reminded the people that he was responsible for running the state which was based on principles and committed to development of all without discrimination....
Alok Kumar-October 15, 2018,10:41 pm IST Politics
In Sushil Modi's 'Lalu-Leela', a Bundle of Graft Charges and Forecast of Tejashwi's Political Future

In his the 200-page book, Sushil Modi described Lalu's ascension from a student leader to the chief minister of Bihar as a journey of amassing wealth through improper means. ...
Alok Kumar-October 11, 2018,5:32 pm IST Politics

05 - 08 Aug, 2020 \| Pakistan in England
PAK	vs	ENG
326/10 109.3 overs		219/10 70.3 overs

04 Aug, 2020 \| Ireland in England
ENG	vs	IRE
328/10 49.5 overs		329/3 49.5 overs

01 Aug, 2020 \| Ireland in England
IRE	vs	ENG
212/9 50.0 overs		216/6 32.3 overs

30 Jul, 2020 \| Ireland in England
IRE	vs	ENG
172/10 44.4 overs		174/4 27.5 overs

24 - 28 Jul, 2020 \| The Wisden Trophy
ENG	vs	WI
369/10 111.5 overs		197/10 65.0 overs

Alok Kumar

Lockdown Has Limits: India Needs to Ramp Up Testing, Restore Economic Activity in a Calibrated Way

OPINION| Does India Need New Strategies to Improve Urban Health and Nutrition?

How Nitish Kumar Bagged Dream Deal for 2019, Left Bihar BJP Stunned

Amit Shah Dials Kushwaha, Crucial Seat Sharing Talks With RSLP to Take Place in Delhi Today

Ram Vilas Paswan Unlikely to Contest Lok Sabha Polls, May Take the RS Route

Kanhaiya Kumar Makes Political Debut at CPI's Anti-BJP Rally, But Tejashwi's Absence Raises Questions

JD(U) Says BJP Gave a ‘Good Deal’ on Seat Sharing for 2019, But Not All Allies Like the Latest Formula

BJP is Now Using Goddess Durga Against Me, Says Kanhaiya Kumar

From Shahabuddin's Den Siwan, Tejashwi Signals He’ll Follow in Footsteps of Father Lalu Yadav

Woman Visits Bihar Tantrik to Conceive Male Child, Gang-Raped By 6 Men at His 'Adda'

Giriraj Singh Hails Yogi For 'Prayagraj', Says Names of All Places Linked with Mughals Must Change

Kanhaiya Kumar, Bajrang Dal Supporters Clash in Bihar's Begusarai; 6 Injured

Maoists Blow up Railway Tracks in Jharkhand, Alert Gangmen Prevent Major Accident

'Alliance Can Never Dictate my Commitment to Fight Crime, Communalism, Corruption': Nitish Kumar

In Sushil Modi's 'Lalu-Leela', a Bundle of Graft Charges and Forecast of Tejashwi's Political Future

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