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05-04-201335 STORIES

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Sincere rebel

On the impact of Howard Zinn’s daring and rousing speeches on his students and political thinkers and activists all around the world.

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Extinction threat

One in every five reptiles is threatened with extinction, and freshwater turtles are at particularly high risk.

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Automobile industry

Bumps ahead

The downturn in the car industry has a lesson for the Indian economy: debt-driven growth cannot be sustained over the long term.

Atrocities in focus

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Kolkata remembers

That shrinking feeling

The value of global financial assets grew rapidly in the decade up to 2007, but has fallen sharply since then. A new report suggests that the global

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Igniting an intifada

The death of yet another Palestinian in an Israeli jail precipitates large-scale protests in the occupied territories.

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Science & Technology

Groundwater arsenic poisoning unrelated to human activity

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Science & Technology

Bee venom-loaded nanoparticles kill HIV

Science & Technology

Green tea, coffee lower stroke risk

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BJP bites the dust

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Argo: Telling the story and spinning a yarn

Ben Affleck’s film ‘Argo’ is not about seeking to understand or about reconciling differences, but about reinforcing the “othering” of Iran. Irrespect

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Controversial end

The death of the main accused in the Delhi gang-rape case interrupts due process of law that might have restored the faith of women in the state’s abi

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Livelihood issues

Banking on hope

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Evolution of a practical visionary

Steering clear of neoliberalism as well as classical communist traditions, Hugo Chavez has sown the seeds of institutions rooted in the Venezuelan re

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Bolivarian revolutionary

No other leader in the world did so much as Hugo Chavez to set the 21st century on a new course. Without him Venezuela will face big challenges in the

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No more “Your Excellency”

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Imperial images

An exhibition on Delhi from the late 19th to the early 20th century, which was recently on in Bangalore, gives visitors a chance to understand the pom

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Jammu & Kashmir

Acts of despair

Employment generation schemes that fall short of providing sustainable solutions only breed more resentment among the youth.

Golden run ends

There are clear indications that the gold rally is coming to an end after 12 long years.

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Uhuru Kenyatta wins

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Unequal attention

Lopsided funding for wildlife conservation is resulting in some critically endangered species being driven towards extinction.

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Tiger tales from the Himalayas

Bhutan’s 20,000 sq km unbroken tiger habitat, a mountainous landscape, can support 100 more adult tigers provided there is an abundance of wild ungula

Ambitious reforms plan

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To fast again

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A man who made his revolution

Hugo Chavez, who made a revolution in Venezuela in the face of serious challenges and became the standard-bearer of the radical change taking place in

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Political stalemate

A three-way split in votes in the recent general election has complicated the political situation in a country that faces an economic crisis that many

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Ayodhya and Narasimha Rao

An insider’s account of why P.V. Narasimha Rao as Prime Minister did not act to prevent or stop the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

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Strategic embrace

Strategic ties between Russia and China, driven by economic and geopolitical compulsions, are growing apace, prompting some analysts to warn of greate

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Brand Qatar

Qatar, a nation built on gas revenues, relies on various forms of contract labour to facilitate its nationals’ luxurious existence, and on U.S. troops

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Biosecurity Bill

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A growth story, retold

An attempt to show that the “mysterious” Orient was not a “changeless” entity, carefully avoiding “ideology-tainted concepts”.

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Jammu & Kashmir

Wounded valley

Chaos and confusion dominate the political landscape of Kashmir as no serious Central intervention has happened to soothe the anger over the Army’s ac

Letters

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Indomitable spirit

Bhanwari Devi continues to fight for justice, 21 years after she was gang-raped.

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