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Soldiers
In this issue
07-03-2014
36 STORIES
Economic Perspectives
No method in this confusion
Preoccupations
Nationalising losses
Nuclear Energy
Fusion reaction
Space
Mars orbiter
Physics
Physics of curly hair
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Anthropology
They came from Asia
Sashi Kumar
The model and the code
Books
Money matters
Heritage
Shooting in the dark
The challenge of photographing the paintings at Ajanta.
Tamil Nadu
Tangled for a cause
Japan
Strategic embrace
Japan steps up its diplomatic cooperation with India as part of its “contain China” policy, being pursued since Shinzo Abe became the Prime Minister.
Books
Musings on law and justice
Legal practitioners and academics engage with the history, politics and shifting scales of justice in India.
Letter from Beirut
Land of refugees
The number of refugees in West Asia riddle the imagination: there are millions of them. Conditions in Syria are deteriorating rapidly now, pushing mor
Thailand
Political impasse
Thailand stands on the edge of an abyss as the early elections called by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra turns out to be a futile attempt to end th
Maharashtra
Free at last
Health care
Ailing scheme
The Ex-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme is meant to provide cashless health-care services to veterans and their families, but inadequate funding,
Interview
Celebrating diversity
Yaadhum, a documentary tracing the roots of Tamil Muslims, evocatively portrays a syncretic tradition that allowed inclusiveness and peaceful coexiste
Defence Ministry response
Positive accommodation: Defence Ministry
Wendy Doniger
In their bad books
Penguin withdraws Wendy Doniger’s book on an alternative history of Hinduism bowing to pressure from right-wing forces.
Alternatives
A new platform
A non-Congress, non-BJP grouping of 11 parties takes shape and positions itself as a viable, secular alternative to the two mainstream parties in the
Controversy
A legal flaw
The Penguin case raises doubts about the state’s ability to protect writers’ freedom of expression from those seeking to impose unreasonable restricti
Soldier and his vote
Right to vote: discriminatory rules
Mumbai
Monorail as mass transport?
New Delhi
Two more attempts for civil service aspirants
Pay, pension, perks
Veterans’ woes
Defence personnel are at a great disadvantage in respect of pay, pension and medical benefits compared with civilian government servants.
Buddhist wonders
Monumental effort
Delhi
To farmers’ rescue
The Delhi government gets tough with agents at vegetable wholesale markets who charge farmers a 6 per cent commission for selling their produce.
Lead Story
Unhappy soldiers
India’s armed forces personnel, who put their lives on the line for the country, are denied what is their due in terms of pay, perks and pension in s
Lead Story
Alarming shortage of personnel
Interview
‘There is no sensitivity in the system’
Interview with General (retd) V.K. Singh.
India-Iran
Challenges & opportunities
Given its interests in the Gulf, India has opted not to get embroiled in GCC-Iran differences. With the thawing of U.S.-Iran relations, it is time
Communal violence
A Bill on hold
The UPA government is in a hurry to push through the Communal Violence Bill, but the lack of confidence expressed by the opposition and several State
Data Card
Oil & gas policy
Good policy marred by poor implementation—this sums up India’s oil and gas exploration history. Will the new uniform licensing policy change the count
Industrial Safety
Norms to the winds
In view of the violation of the norms for the health and safety of workers in thermal plants, the Supreme Court directs the High Courts to examine whe
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