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Government by defaultWITH the task of President K.R. Narayanan rendered quite simple and non-contentious by the arithmetic and mixed-up politics of the emerging post-poll
Genius of SongWE cannot think of more than a small number of Indians about whom it can be said in honesty: his or her achievement is likely to endure a hundred year
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A new phase of censorship creep in India A proposal to amend the IT Rules 2021 and the ban on a BBC documentary are part of a larger trend of Internet censorship, growing since 2014.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.