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Dispatches

West Bengal BJP leader Rakesh Singh arrested in narcotics case involving Pamela Goswami

West Bengal warns private hospitals of licence cancellation if they reject patients having government’s health insurance scheme

Delhi court grants bail to Disha Ravi, the Bengaluru-based climate change activist slapped with sedition in the ‘toolkit’ case

Human death and injury the dominant cost of human-wildlife conflict in India, says study

S. Vaikundarajan of V.V. Minerals sentenced to three years in prison, MoEFCC official to five years in SEZ project bribery case

Bombay High Court grants Varavara Rao six months’ bail on medical grounds, but with stringent conditions attached

Narendra Modi accuses Trinamool government of standing in the way of development and indulging in vote-bank politics

N. Rangaswamy of AINRC waits to hear from Puducherry Lieutenant-Governor after Congress government loses trust vote in Assembly

Bihar resident Javaid Alam Ansari arrested for abetting militancy in Kashmir

Massive win for Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP in rural local body elections in Andhra Pradesh

Revisiting Pulwama

Frosty relations with Pakistan after the Pulwama terror attack

John Cherian
Post Pulwama, India-Pakistan ties took a nosedive with the Modi government claiming that its hard-line tactics made Pakistan bend to its will when the reality was that international diplomacy helped ease tensions.
Farmers' agitation

Popular resentment against the BJP-led Centre rises as ongoing farmers' agitation spreads, shows effects in Punjab local body elections

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The spread of the farmers’ agitation to many parts of ...

Pulwama Revisited

Why were intelligence inputs ahead of Pulwama attack ignored?

Anando Bhakto Recently in Srinagar

Frontline is now in possession of official documents that ...

RELATED STORIES

Popular resentment against the BJP-led Centre rises as ongoing farmers' agitation spreads, shows effects in Punjab local body elections

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Why were intelligence inputs ahead of Pulwama attack ignored?

Anando Bhakto Recently in Srinagar

Trinamool stares at split in Muslim vote

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
New political equations emerge in West Bengal with the Left-Congress alliance in the process of ...

Jingoism as politics

Ziya Us Salam
The ‘nationalist sentiment’ Modi evoked at every election rally post-Pulwama attack and his frequent ...

New world order and Pulwama

SIDDIQ WAHID
The apparent failure to act on intelligence inputs ahead of the Pulwama attack is alarming enough, ...

Dispatches

West Bengal BJP leader Rakesh Singh arrested in narcotics case involving Pamela Goswami

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Three days after two leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) were arrested for ...

West Bengal warns private hospitals of licence cancellation if they reject patients having government’s health insurance scheme

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

The West Bengal government has warned private hospitals and nursing homes that refusal to ...

Delhi court grants bail to Disha Ravi, the Bengaluru-based climate change activist slapped with sedition in the ‘toolkit’ case

VIKHAR AHMED SAYEED

Disha Ravi, the Bengaluru-based climate change activist who was arrested by Delhi Police ...

Human death and injury the dominant cost of human-wildlife conflict in India, says study

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

A study led by researchers from the Bengaluru-based Centre for Wildlife Studies (CWS) and ...

S. Vaikundarajan of V.V. Minerals sentenced to three years in prison, MoEFCC official to five years in SEZ project bribery case

Ilangovan Rajasekaran

A Delhi CBI Special Court has sentenced the controversial beach sand mining baron S.

Bombay High Court grants Varavara Rao six months’ bail on medical grounds, but with stringent conditions attached

Anupama Katakam

Telugu litterateur and activist P. Varavara Rao has been granted bail on medical grounds ...

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

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898): A man with a mission

Mohammad Sajjad

An immensely readable biography of the reformist Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, and a corrective to existing studies of Muslim ...

Diplomacy in militancy

A.G. NOORANI

The book, about the need for negotiations and talks, abounds with an astonishing number of case studies in Asia, Africa, ...

Book review: R. Balakrishnan's "Journey of a Civilization: Indus to Vaigai" seeks to establish common ground between the Indus Valley and Old Tamil traditions

T. Udhayachandran

The book holds a treasure trove of surprises relating to the Indus Valley Civilisation and Tamil literature and seeks to ...

Digitisation and oil industry

M.P. Sukumaran Nair

A must read for the academic and industrial practitioners in the oil and gas industry. BY M.P. Sukumaran Nair

Co-publishing venture opens up new vistas for Tamil literature in translation

Abhirami Girija Sriram

The literature-in-translation programme supported by the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation in ...

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 ...

Cover Story

Pulwama attack

Eleven intelligence inputs warning of Pulwama attack were ignored

Anando Bhakto

Frontline’s investigation reveals that 11 intelligence inputs warning of the Pulwama terrorist attack of February 14, 2019, were ignored. Who was ...

Politics

EXCLUSIVE

Pulwama terror attack happened despite two successive actionable intelligence inputs

Anando Bhakto Recently in Srinagar

A year-long investigation by ‘Frontline’ reveals that between January 2 and February 13, 2019, a series of intelligence inputs were shared with ...

Cover Story

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: The nation wants to know

R. Vijaya Sankar

“Patriotism can’t be our final spiritual shelter. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over ...

Cinema

Film Review

Film review: 'The Great Indian Kitchen' discusses gender issues and patriarchal values in relationships

C.S. Venkiteswaran

The Malayalam movie 'The Great Indian Kitchen' addresses the gender issue by bringing into the narrative the oppressive ...

U.S.-Iran

New regime, old games: U.S. goes slow on restoring nuclear treaty with Iran

John Cherian

The Biden administration seems to be in no hurry to restore the nuclear treaty with Iran, which is increasingly losing ...

Nepal

New political crisis in Nepal

S.D. Muni

As Nepal’s ruling Communist Party grapples with a leadership tussle, there are powerful sections within India’s National ...

Uganda

Museveni declares victory over Bobi Wine and will be in power for another five years

John Cherian

President Yoweri Museveni has declared himself victor in the recently concluded presidential election that was marked by ...

Communalism

Communalism

How hate is brewed in Hindutva’s laboratory

ANUPAMA KATAKAM

A report on recent trends in communal violence in Gujarat notes a shift in the scene of violence from urban to rural ...

The United States

Foreign policy challenges that U.S. President Joe Biden faces in Asia

Vijay Prashad

Even as Asia remains the most important frontline of United States President Joe Biden’s foreign policy, there are clear ...

West Bengal

The exodus from Trinamool to BJP is on

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

A fresh round of defections from the Trinamool Congress, led by former Cabinet Minister Rajib Banerjee, has come as a ...

Suicides in Armed Forces

At war with the self: Indian armed forces register alarming suicide trend

Anando Bhakto in New Delhi

The alarmingly high number of serving soldiers committing suicide while on duty calls for an urgent need for structural ...

Environment

Wildlife

Watching the birds come to bathe in the Dandeli forest

Sudha Mahalingam Photographs by Sudha Mahalingam

The Dandeli forest in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka is a birder’s delight that offers rewarding sightings of a ...

Arts & Culture

FOLK THEATRE

The Padma Shri for Manjamma Jogathi does her, her community and Karnataka proud

VIKHAR AHMED SAYEED

Manjamma’s life began on the margins of society as a Jogathi. It has now taken centre stage with the government ...

Literature

‘The lies my mother told me’ by Ashita: A Malayalam short story in translation

MY mother told me more lies than anyone else in this world. The realisation burns through my being with the ...

The Nation

Interview: Hamid Ansari

Hamid Ansari, whose autobiography hits the stands in January, exhorts Muslims ‘to struggle for our rights’, ‘focus on education and business, and not respond to any provocation’

Ziya Us Salam

Interview with M. Hamid Ansari, former Vice President of India, on his latest book.

The Nation

Essay

RSS as Vishwaguru

A.G. Noorani

The RSS’ drive to position India as preacher to the world encapsulates a long-term ...

COVID-19

COVID and other diseases: An Animal Farm perspective

Debraj Ray S. Subramanian

The global burdens of COVID and the global benefits of anti-COVID policy have been skewed ...

Union Budget 2021-22

The Budget does not help those facing hunger, unemployment and loss of educational opportunities

Rahul Lahoti Surbhi Kesar

The euphoria with which the Budget was received petered out upon close examination of it.

Farmers' Movement

Allahabad High Court halts the Uttar Pradesh government's attempts to intimidate farmers

Divya Trivedi

The Allahabad High Court intervenes against the Uttar Pradesh government’s intimidation of ...

Farmers' Agitation

Maharashtra’s farmers stand united with the farmers’ protesting on Delhi’s borders

Anupama Katakam

In the three days before Republic Day, approximately 15,000 farmers from across ...

RAILWAY BUDGET

The Finance Minister has dressed up the Indian Railways’ balance sheet, indulged in tokenism and in grand projections

R. Elangovan

The budget reveals a shocking collapse of the Railways’ revenues and shows that no ...

Agriculture

Farmers' Agitation and the CAA protests

A tale of two protests: farmers’ protest and Shaheen Bagh

Ziya Us Salam

While the government has shown more willingness to engage with the protesting farmers than ...

Cover Story

A republic of rants: Arnab Goswami roams free despite WhatsApp chat leak

Anupama Katakam

Arnab Goswami continues to roam free despite damning WhatsApp chats on security and TRP ...

Union Budget

The Union Budget is marked by an overall compression of expenditures for agriculture

R. Ramakumar

The Budget shows no commitment to agricultural growth or farmers’ welfare. Against the ...

Columns

Australia to make big tech pay for the news they link and direct users to

Australia’s proposal to make big tech firms such as Google and Facebook pay for the news they link to is being closely watched by many countries as a way to facilitate the digital transition that publishers without a clear revenue model have begun.

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Birds of Dandeli forest

The Dandeli forest in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka is a birder’s delight that offers rewarding sightings of a myriad of avian species.
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