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Dispatches

Thiruvananthapuram International Airport handed over to Adani group ignoring Kerala government’s opposition and protests by employees

With epic Brisbane victory, Indian cricket team win series against Australia 2-1 to retain the Border-Gavaskar trophy

Sajad Lone’s People’s Conference exits Farooq Abdullah-led Gupkar alliance

Dr V. Shanta (1927-2021), doyen of cancer care, passes away

Media trial, as seen in Sushant Singh Rajput’s case, amounts to contempt of court: Bombay High Court

Uddhav Thackeray rakes up Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute to mark January 17 ‘martyrs’ day’ anniversary

BJP leader Kapil Mishra sends Amazon notice on web series ‘Tandav’ a day after I&B Ministry seeks explanation from makers for ‘hurting’ Hindu sentiments

Rajinikanth fans free to quit Rajini Makkal Mandram and join any political party, says mandram official

Germany’s ruling Christian Democrats opt for continuity, choose Armin Laschet to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel as CDU leader

Complaint filed against ‘Thuglaq’ editor S. Gurumurthy in Tirunelveli for allegedly defaming judges

Tribute: Dr V. Shanta (1927-2021)

Progress against cancer

V. SHANTA
On the occasion of fifty years of India’s Independence, Frontline, in the words of N. Ram, Editor, “invited Indians of eminence to write about developments over the last fifty years in the fields in which they have made distinguished contributions”.
Communalism

Lawyer’s office raided arbitrarily by Delhi Police

Ziya Us Salam

The police raid on the premises of an advocate who ...

Tribute: Sugathakumari, iconic Malayalam poet-activist

Sugathakumari spearheaded successful campaigns to save the Silent Valley and other Kerala forests and roused concerns about social ills

R. Krishnakumar

Sugathakumari (1934-2020), Malayalam poet, nature warrior ...

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Maharashtra government decides to rename localities with caste-based names

Lyla Bavadam
In a far-reaching initiative, Maharashtra plans to rename places having caste-based names.

Shiv Sena's proposal to rename Aurangabad as Sambhaji Nagar gathers steam

Lyla Bavadam
Changing names of places has always been a political game. Sometimes it is done with progressive ...

Another test of unity lies in store for MVA in Maharashtra

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The MVA’s strategy to meet the Maharashtra electorate as a single entity has been successful and the ...

Dispatches

Thiruvananthapuram International Airport handed over to Adani group ignoring Kerala government’s opposition and protests by employees

R. Krishnakumar

In spite of the continuing opposition of the Government of Kerala to the handing over of ...

With epic Brisbane victory, Indian cricket team win series against Australia 2-1 to retain the Border-Gavaskar trophy

Abhimanyu Hazarika

There were debuts, a lot of firsts, a great many dropped catches, but most importantly, a ...

Sajad Lone’s People’s Conference exits Farooq Abdullah-led Gupkar alliance

Anando Bhakto

The Sajad Lone-led Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference (JKPC) has pulled out of the ...

Dr V. Shanta (1927-2021), doyen of cancer care, passes away

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Dr V. Shanta (1927-2021), who redefined the concept of quality and affordable cancer care ...

Media trial, as seen in Sushant Singh Rajput’s case, amounts to contempt of court: Bombay High Court

Abhimanyu Hazarika

Coming down on two TV channels for their coverage of the Sushant Singh Rajput suicide ...

Uddhav Thackeray rakes up Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute to mark January 17 ‘martyrs’ day’ anniversary

Lyla Bavadam

At a time when the Shiv Sena is pushing its old agenda of renaming Aurangabad, Maharashtra ...

Editor's Pick

Relevance of Ambedkar

From Editor’s Column in the April 27, 1991, issue, assessing Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s role in ...

Interview: Amartya Sen

‘Making people’s lives better’

V.K. Ramachandran

Soon after he won the Nobel Prize, Amartya Sen spoke about the Prize, his research and the ...

Communalism

The Hindutva ride

K.N. PANIKKAR

The organisational advance, social reach, political clout and ideological influence that ...

Interview: Noam Chomsky

Chomsky on an unjust war

V.K. Ramachandran

Excerpts from an interview with Prof. Noam Chomsky in his office in Building 20 of the MIT, ...

Profile: Satyajit Ray

Walking tall

Gowri Ramnarayan

Excerpted from an article in the December 20, 1991, issue on Satyajit Ray, who went on to ...

R.K. Narayan in the first person

Recorded in interviews with Susan Ram or conversations with her or N. Ram over a decade ...

Books

Tracing six centuries of Delhi as cultural capital

Shafey Kidwai

A fine translation of K.A. Nizami’s Urdu book, “Ehd-e-Wusta ki Dilli”, which chronicles the history and culture of Delhi ...

THREATENED ECOSYSTEMS

Book review: Urgent need for conservation action to save India’s habitats

Lyla Bavadam

Comprehensive and thought-provoking essays dealing with the state of India’s wilderness and wildlife and the ...

Gender inequity

Marginalisation of women and the social exclusion discourse

Shafey Kidwai

The book makes a sincere attempt to identify the predicament of suppressed women who find themselves in a quagmire of ...

Fresh perspectives on medieval Deccan history

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Two recent books, which focus on the Deccan Sultanates of the 16th and 17th centuries, and which chart the connections ...

Migrant workers

The Asian workforce in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries

K.P. Fabian

The essays deal with a variety of policies and issues affecting the migrant workforce in the GCC countries.

On wildlife and ecosystems

Colourful descriptions of nature

Shekhar Singh

A collection of essays on wildlife and ecosystems with wonderful facts and inspiring prose.

Communalism

Communalism

Congress seeks to beat the BJP at its Hindutva game in Chhattisgarh

Divya Trivedi

In a bid to retain power and be one up on the BJP, the Congress in Chhattisgarh is utilising Hindu symbols to the core.

Politics

BJP using all means to get chairmanships in the Jammu and Kashmir District Development Councils

Anando Bhakto

Failing to secure the mandate they wanted in the DDC elections, the BJP and its allies have embarked on a campaign to bag as many council ...

Public Health

NFHS Round 5 data

Latest NFHS data reveal high levels of anaemia across nation

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Data from the latest round of the National Family Health Survey show disturbing trends in indicators such as nutritional levels.

The Nation

Farmers' protest

Farmers dig their heels in at protest sites on Delhi's borders

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Despite several odds and the government refusing to budge, the protest against the farm laws is gaining momentum and the ...

RIVER SAND MINING

The Madras High Court seeks fresh profiling of Tamiraparani river sands and finds the extent of illegal sand quarrying alarming

Ilangovan Rajasekaran

A report submitted to the High Court points to the presence of precious minerals in the Tamiraparani riverbed and the ...

West Asia

Donald Trump’s transactional politics on behalf of Israel

John Cherian

It seems like there is almost nothing President Trump will not do, even in his last days in office, to please the ...

Western Sahara

Sahrawis betrayed again as Trump bats for Morocco

John Cherian

The United States gets Morocco to establish diplomatic ties with Israel by recognising Western Sahara as part of the ...

Obituary

Tribute

The disappearance of Roddam Narasimha

U.N. Sinha Srinivas Bhogle

Roddam Narasimha (1933-2020), a great scientist and scholar, will be remembered in India for his contributions to the ...

‘If APMC mandis go, MSP will vanish’

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Interview with Professor Sukhpal Singh, Principal Economist, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.

Politics drives India's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic even as questions over DCGI's approvals for vaccines persist

R. Ramachandran

The approval process for the two vaccines released for Restricted Emergency Use once again makes it clear that politics, ...

India’s vaccine saga continues with COVID-19 providing an opportunity to boost vaccine literacy

Shahul Hameed Ebrahim Muhammed Shaffi N.M. Mujeeb Rahman

India’s efforts at vaccines since ancient times have served as the foundation for its modern vaccination strategies and ...

Other

U.K.

Brexit pains: Boris Johnson seals the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union

John Cherian

The British parliament votes by a large majority to clear Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s exit deal with European Union ...

Other

Naveen Patnaik's BJD braces for battle against the BJP in Odisha

Prafulla Das

The Biju Janata Dal led by Naveen Patnaik falls back on its old plank of regionalism to hold on to its own political ...

Other

Slaughter ban in Karnataka to affect nutrition and rural economy

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

The Karnataka Cabinet takes the ordinance route to implement a new Bill banning the slaughter of cattle in the State, a ...

Cover Story

Covid vaccine

Approval for Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin lacks scientific basis

S. Srinivasan

The decision to approve a major vaccine without consideration of its efficacy in itself is rather extraordinary to the ...

Cover Story

Covid vaccine and farmers' agitation

Diversion vs determination: Government plan to overshadow farmers' protest with COVID-19 vaccine dry run fails

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The Modi regime’s latest attempt to overshadow the growing farmers’ agitation with a ...

AIADMK troubles

AIADMK in crisis ahead of 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections

R.K. Radhakrishnan

With an ambitious BJP breathing down its neck, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra ...

Tribute

Roddam Narasimha as scientist & mentor

K.R. Sreenivasan

Deeply immersed in acquiring and creating knowledge, Roddam Narasimha enjoyed the bliss of ...

Tribute

Roddam Narasimha, an illustrious master

Padmanabhan Jayasimha

What I learned from my interactions with Prof. Roddam Narasimha.

Tribute

Mangalesh Dabral: Poet of the masses

Ziya Us Salam

Noted Hindi poet Mangalesh Dabral (1948-2020) lived, thought, spoke and wrote among the ...

SAND MINING MAFIA

SANDRP report points to increasing violence by illegal sand miners and calls for urgent need to regulate riverbed mining

Lyla Bavadam

SANDRP’s report on deaths caused by incidents relating to illegal sand mining and attacks ...

Environment

Spotlight

Lignite mining triggers tremors in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat

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Even as lignite mining operations in the seismically unstable region of Bhavnagar district ...

Online education

Digital divide deprives have-nots of proper online education

Rama Kant Agnihotri

The experience of Vidya Bhawan Society (VBS) in Udaipur shows that an enormous gulf exists ...

Essay

How a Supreme Court judgment brought back the sedition law in India

A.G. Noorani

K.M. Munshi’s amendment had removed “sedition” from the Constitution, arguing that its ...

Columns

Investor exuberance amidst real economy recession

Even while the real economy remains in contractionary mode, not only have stock market returns exploded but India’s stock of foreign exchange reserves registered record-breaking increases in the April-September 2020 period mainly because expenditure, rather unusually, fell short of receipts in the current account.

Slideshow

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A shy, exclusively fruit-eating, arboreal primate endemic to the Western Ghats, the lion-tailed macaque has been classified by the International Union ...
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