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30-05-201442 STORIES

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Ukraine under attack

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Threat from big pharma

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Realistic virtual universe

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Saturn’s hexagon

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Spheres of influence

The strong and consistent Anglo-American tradition of maintaining spheres of influence continued all through the last century and exists still. Yet, a

‘Policeman of the New World’

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Riddle of zebra stripes

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Blaming the ‘other’

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Trade in rupee

India weighs rupee trade options with a number of countries, including many non-oil producing ones, to reduce the drain of forex reserves.

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Stonewalled state

Israeli intransigence derails the U.S.-brokered peace agreement on a two-state solution, but the Palestinian Authority retaliates with deft political

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Cultural encounters

An important collaborative work that cuts across disciplinary boundaries and weaves together visual and textual histories to investigate the dynamics

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River of blood

The massacre in the villages of the Bodoland Territorial Area is seen by the minority community as yet another attempt by the Bodoland People’s Front

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Creative tales

It is difficult to box Ashok Srinivasan’s stories into a particular genre, but whatever genre one settles on, there is no doubt that the stories are c

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Height advantage

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States round-up

Violations galore

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Clueless in Chennai

The police are still in the dark about the purpose of or the persons and organisations behind the twin bomb blasts that rocked Chennai Central railway

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Challenge to democracy

The Election Commission’s helplessness in the face of a campaign against it by the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, and blatant viola

Murder in jail

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Breach of faith

The Supreme Court orders a special audit of the properties of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram after divesting the Travancore roy

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End of ‘bull run’

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Caste-related massacre

Tsunduru’s agony

It took 16 years for the Special Court to convict the accused in the Tsunduru massacre of 1991 in Andhra Pradesh in which eight Dalits were killed. No

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Praveen Kumar, CEO, Tamil Nadu

‘We tried to stop money transactions.’

Interview with Praveen Kumar, Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu.

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Model code of conduct

Code & conflicts

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More light on a hero

The book serves a useful purpose in preserving the revolutionary legacy of Bhagat Singh.

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Interview: H.S. Brahma

Challenges, past and present

Interview with H.S. Brahma, Election Commissioner.

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High tension in Hisar

The alleged abduction and rape of four Dalit girls by caste Hindus escalates tensions in Haryana’s Hisar district, which is already polarised on caste

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‘Model code is like a fire brigade’

Interview with S.Y. Quraishi, former CEC.

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Ban without basis

The continuation of the ban on SIMI raises questions about the functioning of the tribunal set up under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and t

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U.S. dirty tricks

An investigation blows the lid off USAID’s covert Twitter-like platform aimed at destabilising the Cuban government.

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Crackdown at Taksim

Protests build up against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but he remains defiant, cracking down on the May Day rally in Istanbul and even indicat

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Noose around Egypt

It is back to the Mubarak era in Egypt as the country is headed for a one-party authoritarian rule after a brief but heady hiatus. Liberal parties tha

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Paramilitary forces

A different battle

The paramilitary forces battle terrorists, insurgents and naxalites and even play a role in the smooth conduct of elections, but it is the fight for d

‘Enforcement is very poor’

Interview with Dushyant Dave.

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Hope and angst

Myanmar presents a mixed picture three years after the launch of reforms, and the next presidential election holds the key to which way the country wi

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Covering elections

News space on sale

Political parties flush with funds provided by corporate houses are winning over journalists, and some news organisations are creating packages for el

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Proportional representation

For fair representation

It is time India moved towards a system of at least partial proportional representation as the present first-past-the-post system often results in ske

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Ban on mangoes

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Corporate social responsibility

Evening the score

Interview with Pooran C. Pandey, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact Network India, on corporate social responsibility.

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Elusive hunter

The leopard is unique in that it can live in every kind of habitat, including human-dominated landscapes, sugarcane fields, rocky outskirts, evergreen

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Mystery of a royal grant

The Leiden plates provide a glimpse of the story of how a great Buddhist centre of learning and spirituality flourished in Nagapattinam thanks to the

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India in the changing world

The book, comprising 17 articles, deals with India’s role in the changing global political and economic order and attempts to show how difficult, and

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