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Black money and grey areas

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27-06-201438 STORIES

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C.P. Chandrasekhar

Chinese dreams

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Science & Technology

Alert in polar ice

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Interview: Rudolf Elmer

‘Not hopeful about SIT success’

Interview with Rudolf Elmer, a former employee of the Swiss bank Julius Baer.

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Music and its spaces

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Anti-diabetic drug & lifespan

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FIFA World Cup: The greatest spectacle on earth

It comes around once in four years, throwing up heroes, villains and fools and eliciting the most intense of reactions.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Letters to the Editor

FL27GANGA

Air of uncertainty

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar will not have to worry about pressures from alliance partners. But one does not know how much space he is willi

FL27CREDITSUISSE

Toothless treaty

A new OECD declaration paves the way for access to information on bank accounts in tax havens like Switzerland, but is still skewed in favour of such

FL27NEHRU

Impossible agenda

The BJP’s long-running pledges for the abrogation of Article 370, for a Ram temple in Ayodhya, and for a uniform civil code are constitutionally impos

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Adhesives

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Marine biodiversity

FL27MOSQUITOES

Dengue & World Cup

FL27PROTEST

Jammu & Kashmir

Concern in Kashmir

The controversy over Article 370 has affected the psyche of the average Kashmiri and given rise to the fear that certain important rights that the peo

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The beautiful game?

There is anger on the streets of Brazil, which is reeling under economic hardships, as it plays host to the most expensive Football World Cup so far.

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Songs of the soil

A video documentary pays tribute to the immense contribution of theTamil lyricist Pattukottai Kalyanasundaram, whose songs were rooted in the socialis

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Interview: Prashant Bhushan

‘Stop allowing participatory notes’

Interview with Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan.

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Letter from Beirut

The tide turns

Even as the Syrian Army beats back the rebels in key areas, the massive turnout in support of Assad in the presidential election drives home the point

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Twists in Jain hawala case

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Driven to despair

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Science & Technology

New window to the universe

With the recent discovery of very-high-energy cosmic neutrinos by the South Pole experiment IceCube, neutrino astronomy can be said to have finally ar

FL27MODIMAIN

Interview: Prof. Arun Kumar

‘Political will matters ultimately’

Interview with Professor Arun Kumar, Centre for Economic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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A cry from Badaun

The gang rape and murder of two minor girls in Uttar Pradesh brings to the fore factors such as caste dynamics and police apathy behind the growing cr

FL27SITMAIN

Black money & grey areas

The decision to constitute a Special Investigation Team to investigate cases of black money stashed away in foreign banks will prove to be an acid tes

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From Bar to Bench

The Supreme Court collegium, going against accepted norms, has recommended the appointment of two practising lawyers of the Bar as judges in the Supre

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Building plans

In the new political climate, there is a pronounced assertiveness among Sangh Parivar outfits on core Hindutva programmes, including the construction

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How Dalits live

The book provides insights into the living conditions of Dalit households in different partsof the country.

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Grass-roots leader

Gopinath Pandurang Munde (1949-2014) was a simple man comfortable in his rural roots. A stranger to Machiavellian political machinations, he owed his

FL27TRAINONROAD

No gravy train

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Looming civil war

Russia withdraws its troops from the border with Ukraine, but the latter rejects dialogue with the Russian-speaking people in the eastern region, clai

FL27FORTNIGHTYAKUB

Reprieve for Yakub Memon

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Diplomatic surprise

The invitation to the Pakistan Prime Minister to attend the swearing-in of Narendra Modi may have been a diplomatic coup but Nawaz Sharif agreed to co

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Thinking music

A commendable first book by a leading musician, full of thought-provoking questions vital to the well-being of Carnatic music.

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Poor track record

FDI in the Railways without fixing the conditions that lead to frequent accidents seems to be an overly ambitious idea.

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Who is afraid of illicit finance?

Illicit capital outflow has increased significantly after neoliberal policies were introduced in 1991. Committed as it is to the same economic model,

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A takeoff aborted

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Troubled waters

The problems arising from the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, such as the transfer of 205 tribal villages in the submergence zone of the Polavaram proj

FL27COLUMNGREENWALD

Cine-framing the morally monumental

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