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May 08, 2019
International experience shows that ensuring ordinary criminal accountability for judges for crimes they are alleged to have committed will strengthen the judicial institution.
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May 07, 2019
The Supreme Court's defence of the CJI, Ranjan Gogoi, while dealing with his alleged offence of sexual harassment of its former employee, provokes outrage over its internal mechanism.
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Apr 24, 2019
Artists and writers raise their voice against the present regime and call upon voters to throw out the government for the sake of India's pluralist tradition and the Constitution.
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Apr 10, 2019
Transcender, a documentary that captures the life of K. Prithika Yashini, the first transgender person to join the police force in India, calls for a public dialogue to draw attention to the cause of the vulnerable community.
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Apr 10, 2019
Interview with the author Dilip Hiro.
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Apr 10, 2019
Security officials outside the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi intimidate guests, including journalists, on the occasion of the Pakistan National Day celebrations.
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Mar 26, 2019
What first appeared on social media as video clips of a sexual assault lead to the expose of a major sex racket, with alleged political connections, in Tamil Nadu's Pollachi town.
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Mar 26, 2019
Enormous sums spent on statues constitute waste of public money in a country where poverty is rampant. It is a sheer waste of taxpayers' money, and it is liable to be quashed by the courts.
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Mar 13, 2019
Anil Ambani and his group of companies are in a downward spiral that could jeopardise the investments of millions of shareholders.
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Mar 13, 2019
For all the positivity garnered by Period. End of Sentence, the Oscar award-winning documentary, its factual inaccuracies and politics of appropriation cannot be dismissed.
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Mar 13, 2019
The expert committee of the Ministry of Labour and Employment appointed to fix the national minimum wage ignores accepted criteria and arrives at a figure lower than the one recommended by the Seventh Pay Commission.
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Mar 13, 2019
The Supreme Court's February 13 eviction order, which has been kept in abeyance, hangs like a sword of Damocles over lakhs of forest dwellers.
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Mar 12, 2019
The Modi government's declaration of electrification of all villages in 25 States, while not taking into account the work done by earlier governments, seems to rest on fudged and cherry-picked statistics.
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Mar 12, 2019
Post-mortem reports on the victims of police violence in Thoothukudi last year reveal disturbing information about the nature of the firings and the intent behind them.
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Feb 27, 2019
A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court refers to a larger bench the dispute between the Delhi government and the Centre over controlling the National Capital Region's public services.
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Feb 27, 2019
Rajasthan's newly elected Congress government tries to do a fine balancing act in pacifying Gujjars, who can be crucial in at least five parliamentary seats from the State in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
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Feb 27, 2019
The sedition charges against AMU students show that the university continues to fall prey to right-wing mobs who seize every opportunity to demonise its students, often with help from a partisan police force.
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Feb 27, 2019
Amol Palekar's experience at the NGMA and certain decisions by the gallery are indicative of the current regime's intolerance of dissent and disdain for independent art.
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Feb 27, 2019
The CAG report on the Rafale deal remains silent on several crucial issues, and its meek acceptance of the government's line of thinking is another troubling pointer to the unhealthy dominance of the political executive.
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Feb 27, 2019
The murder of a Trinamool MLA in full public view highlights the deteriorating law and order situation in West Bengal.
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Feb 26, 2019
Interview with Amol Palekar.
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Feb 26, 2019
The BJP is determined to push the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, but regional outfits in the north-eastern States continue to put up a united front against it.
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Feb 26, 2019
Interview with Prashant Bhushan, lawyer-activist.
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Feb 26, 2019
The CAG resorts to selective use of facts and adopts double standards in order to provide a "clean chit" to the Modi regime.
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Feb 26, 2019
The Rafale saga has all the ingredients of a potboiler: a politician-civil servant nexus, tweaked standards, and the subversion of procurement procedures that are meant to ensure systemic integrity and safeguard national security.
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Feb 13, 2019
Protests erupt in Assam and other north-eastern States over the passage of the Citizenship Bill as ethnic communities fear that it will replace their language and cultural identity markers with religion.
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Feb 12, 2019
The Yogi Adityanath government gives scant regard to facilities for devotees at the Kumbh Mela; instead, it turns the event into a public relations exercise.
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Feb 12, 2019
The sacking of Chanda Kochhar, ICICI Bank's former CEO and MD, for violating the bank's code of conduct raises questions about the present-day corporate governance.
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Feb 12, 2019
Nana Deshmukh has been conferred the Bharat Ratna for 2019. He neither enriched Parliament nor the public platform nor the press with his contributions. He enriched the Jana Sangh, with money. He was a born fund collector and a born political operator.
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Feb 12, 2019
The Chennai Kalai Theru Vizha, held recently, sought to take the art forms of north Chennai to other parts of the city in an attempt to democratise them.
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Feb 12, 2019
Despite the best efforts of the rail authorities and Japan's JICA agency, local residents in Maharashtra are firmly against Narendra Modi's pet bullet train project.
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Feb 12, 2019
In the centenary year of its founding, the ILO releases a report that reflects the disquiet felt among the working classes of the world and suggests a "human-centred" agenda to make the world of work more equitable.
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Feb 12, 2019
Cobrapost's claims of DHFL having engineered India's biggest banking scam cast a shadow on the functioning of the NBFC sector.
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Feb 12, 2019
With conspiracy theories doing the rounds over Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's death, often floated by Ministers and members of the ruling AIADMK itself, Frontline looks in detail at the reports of Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, and AIIMS, New Delhi, to piece together what happened in the days preceding her death.
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Feb 12, 2019
Disgruntled farmers plan a concerted protest against the government, posing a formidable challenge to the BJP government when the Lok Sabha election is just round the corner.
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Feb 12, 2019
With Kyasanur forest disease reappearing in new territories, an intensive scientific study is needed to know how the virus enters the forest ecosystem of the small mammals-tick-monkey-man cycle from the closed bat-tick-bat cycle.
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Jan 30, 2019
The government's failure to ensure that workers are paid the promised wages in hitherto profit-making, state-owned companies such as BSNL raises doubts about its assurances.
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Jan 30, 2019
The interlinking of rivers is an ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating and socially disruptive national mega project.
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Jan 30, 2019
The refusal of a visa can be struck down if it is on the face of it arbitrary or violative of an international treaty or of the state's own citizens.
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Jan 29, 2019
A video released to the media on the murder and burglary at former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's Kodanadu Estate four months after her death makes startling claims and has the opposition in Tamil Nadu demanding Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami's resignation.
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Jan 29, 2019
A recent international symposium in New Delhi on wheat-related disorders drew attention to celiac disease, one of the world's most under-diagnosed medical conditions.
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Jan 29, 2019
As the controversy over the Rafale deal continues to simmer, the question is whether it will turn out to be Narendra Modi's Bofors.
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Jan 29, 2019
As unrest prevails in the sugar belt of Maharashtra over non-payment of farmers' dues, political parties have been quick to capitalise on the crisis in the election year.
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Jan 17, 2019
HAL, a public sector Navaratna, stares at a bleak future as its order book dwindles and its cash reserves are raided by the Central government.
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Jan 17, 2019
The 10 per cent reservation for the "economically weaker sections" is hailed by ruling and opposition parties alike, but experts raise doubts over its practical implementation and constitutional validity.
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Jan 17, 2019
Protests rock Assam and other north-eastern States as the Centre plans to amend citizenship laws in order to grant legitimacy to illegal immigrants.
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Jan 16, 2019
The Supreme Court's objective to free the Central Bureau of Investigation of extraneous influence may have come a cropper with the High Powered Committee deciding to transfer Director Alok Verma without hearing him.
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Jan 16, 2019
TRIPURA is on the boil. Six people were reportedly injured in police firing and around 20 shops were destroyed as tribal organisations, including the
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Jan 16, 2019
The Constitution of Jammu & Kashmir is not legally valid because it was enacted by an Assembly that had been installed through a coup by the Centre in violation of Article 370 and had lost its representative character, moral authority and political relevance.
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Jan 16, 2019
Interview with Aruna Roy.
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Jan 02, 2019
"Onions don't just make the cook cry," said Subhash Wairkire, a young farmer from Nashik who had brought his produce to a farmers' market in Mumbai. T
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Jan 02, 2019
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal suffered yet another setback as legal hurdles pushed its proposed rath yatra to January. The "Ganatant
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Jan 02, 2019
Interview with Senior Advocate H.S. Phoolka.
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Jan 02, 2019
The Savitribai Phule Pune University's sudden decision to postpone until further notice the 79th session of the Indian History Congress two weeks before it was scheduled to host it is perceived as being part of an organised assault on critical and progressive thinking.
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Jan 02, 2019
In three decades, the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) has established itself as an enduring platform that resists all forces threatening the right to freedom of creative expression in India.
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Jan 02, 2019
Both Indians and Pakistanis believe that Jinnah was politically born on March 23, 1940, the day the Muslim League adopted the Pakistan resolution. Both ignore his glorious role as a fighter for India's freedom.
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Jan 01, 2019
Survivors of the 1984 violence remain scarred forever by the experience, but the conviction and sentencing of Sajjan Kumar has brought them some consolation.
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Jan 01, 2019
The demolition drive in Varanasi continues, bringing down heritage edifices and polarising the population.
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Dec 19, 2018
As India secures the extradition of Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the AgustaWestland chopper deal, its efforts to bring back other fugitives from abroad come under scrutiny.
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Dec 19, 2018
The Bulandshahr violence in Uttar Pradesh, in which a police officer was killed, suggests that the politics of communal polarisation through violence and rioting was at play behind the incident.
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Dec 19, 2018
Competitive "yatras" by the BJP and the ruling Trinamool Congress mark a new twist in West Bengal politics.
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Dec 18, 2018
ON November 19, thousands of sugarcane farmers gathered at Freedom Park in Bengaluru under the aegis of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) deman
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Dec 18, 2018
The 2018 Global Nutrition Report points to the link between income and malnutrition but falls short of examining critical factors such as enhanced public spending that determine the levels of hunger and nutrition.
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Dec 18, 2018
Justice Kurian Joseph's disclosures immediately after retirement touch upon the integrity and independence of judges of the Supreme Court.
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Dec 05, 2018
Agrarian distress can turn the tide for the Congress in rural Madhya Pradesh, but in towns and cities the BJP's grip is as strong as ever. By Anando Bhakto in BHOPAL
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Dec 05, 2018
Governor Satya Pal Malik's act of dissolving the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly when three political parties in the State were on the verge of forming a coalition government is of a piece with the systematic undermining of democratic polity in the State over the years.
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Dec 05, 2018
Many Muslims flee their homes as they fear VHP and Shiv Sena cadres descending on the town will do more than competitive communal sloganeering in view of the coming Lok Sabha elections.
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Dec 04, 2018
With an eye on the elections next year, Maharashtra's BJP-Shiv Sena government passes a Bill granting 16 per cent reservation to Marathas in government jobs and educational institutions.
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Dec 04, 2018
Cyclone Gaja devastates several districts in Tamil Nadu, and the State administration's tardy response to the aftermath worsens the situation on the ground.
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Dec 04, 2018
It is necessary for secular moderns to own a leader like Sardar Patel and not allow him to be appropriated by political Hinduism, to which he was opposed.
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Dec 04, 2018
The Special Investigation Team finds that the Sanatan Sanstha, a right-wing organisation, did meticulous planning to eliminate the Bengaluru-based journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, who was a strong critic of the Hindutva ideology.
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Dec 04, 2018
Interview with Professor Romila Thapar.
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Dec 04, 2018
A charter of the CBI will be worthless unless it gives statutory recognition to the principle that it is a police officer's duty to enforce the law and to prevent and detect crime and that politicians cannot interfere in the discharge of this duty.
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Dec 04, 2018
Struggling with massive financial losses from earlier this year, Jet Airways, a major player in India's aviation landscape, faces an uncertain future.
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Dec 01, 2018
THE India Meteorological Department (IMD) has recorded that between 1891 and 2017 some 25 cyclonic systems that formed in the Bay of Bengal ended up i
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Nov 21, 2018
There is no legal route for the present dispensation to use an ordinance to build a Ram temple, but the Sangh Parivar looks set to resort to legal thuggery with elections to several State Assemblies round the corner and general elections due in 2019.
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Nov 20, 2018
Protests, activism and political sparring mark the start of the Sabarimala season, amid unprecedented police curbs.
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Nov 20, 2018
The murderous sexual assault on a tribal girl in Dharmapuri district shocks Tamil Nadu. Equally shocking is the callous police investigation into the crime.
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Nov 20, 2018
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani announced on November 8 that his government was considering renaming Ahmedabad as Karnavati and was exploring the
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Nov 20, 2018
Tamil Nadu's School Education Department rolls out a series of measures aimed at preparing the State's students for the medical entrance test.
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Nov 08, 2018
A fresh controversy has arisen in Tripura, this time over the proposed construction of a Ram temple at a spot where a memorial had been planned for a
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Nov 08, 2018
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's health situation has brought governance in the State to a standstill and set off political power games.
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Nov 08, 2018
The discovery of 1,700 Mysore rockets belonging to the 18th century gives a fillip to the argument that Tipu Sultan was a progressive king who made great advances in arms technology and was a formidable bulwark against the British East India Company in south India.
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Nov 08, 2018
The National Democratic Alliance government's policies seem geared to outsourcing the critical procurement needs of the Indian Army to the private sector and not to encouraging production in the public sector, belying the lofty objectives of Make in India.
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Nov 08, 2018
The gruesome killing of a 13-year-old Dalit girl in Salem district brings to the fore the growing number of casteist and sexual assaults on hapless women in Tamil Nadu.
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Nov 08, 2018
On Jawaharlal Nehru's contribution to shaping India into a modern industrial power.
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Nov 07, 2018
Engineering students across the country will be introduced to a new kind of "science fiction" in the next academic year, thanks to the All India Coun
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Nov 07, 2018
On Jawaharlal Nehru's contribution to shaping India into a modern industrial power.
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Nov 07, 2018
The blame game follows the train accident that claimed the lives of 62 Dussehra revellers in Amritsar on October 19.
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Oct 24, 2018
The attacks against migrant workers in Gujarat are symptomatic of jobless growth and a resentment that has its roots in the governmental neglect of SMEs.
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Oct 24, 2018
The Governor's office invokes Section 124 of the Indian Penal Code against Nakkheeran magazine editor R.R. Gopal, but timely judicial intervention saves the day for press freedom.
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Oct 24, 2018
Social media in India erupt with #MeToo complaints as women from various fields, including cinema and the media, out prominent personalities, including a Union Minister who has been forced to step down.
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Oct 24, 2018
The environmental scientist-turned-sanyasi Prof. G.D. Agrawal breathed his last on October 11 after being on a fast for 111 days since June 22 to save
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Oct 24, 2018
The local body elections in Jammu and Kashmir, held after 13 years, were marked by tepid reception throughout the Valley, bred by the Centre's "muscular policy" and the continuing threat of militants who have been only too willing to pull the trigger.
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Oct 24, 2018
When the Ayodhya dispute comes up for hearing before the Supreme Court on October 29, the fundamentals of India's secular polity, public confidence in the court and the court's own prestige and self-esteem will all be at stake.
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Oct 24, 2018
The hill shrine of Sabarimala in Kerala erupts in unprecedented violent protest as young women try to make their way to the temple following the Supreme Court order allowing women of all ages to pray there.
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Oct 24, 2018
India deports seven Rohingya men to Myanmar, attracting sharp criticism from human rights organisations and striking fear in the minds of Rohingya refugees living in the country.
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Oct 23, 2018
NO one who has followed Justice J.S. Verma's pronouncement, on and off the bench, should be surprised at his sweeping and woefully ignorant remark in
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Oct 23, 2018
The battle for the hearts of Ayyappa devotees aggrieved by the Supreme Court's verdict on the entry of women of all ages at the Sabarimala temple is a
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Oct 12, 2018
By Suhrid Sankar ChattopadhyayIn a major victory for Daily Desher Katha, the newspaper run by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Tripura, the T
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