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The selective targeting of NGOs by the Modi government

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11-07-201439 STORIES

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The new journalism

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Space Technology

New possibilities

The U.S. government has eased its export controls on commercial satellites and components, which could open up fresh opportunities for ISRO.

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Live and let live

Attacks by tigers and leopards on livestock cause devastating losses to owners at the Kanha Tiger Reserve, yet villagers rarely retaliate. Stewardship

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Through my window

Sri Lankan stories

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China & the U.S.

Destabilising the East

With its policy of “rebalance to the East”, the U.S. is trying to use the long-simmering territorial disputes between China and its neighbours to sto

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Attack in Aluthgama

The violence against Muslims in the coastal town by a Buddhist group leads to fears of a resurgence of the Sinhala nationalism that targeted Tamils in

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Virtual revolution

On the dynamics of social upheavals spurred through the agency of social media.

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Rebooting Infosys

In a business landscape that has changed drastically, Infosys searches for new strategies and direction as its founders step down.

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Crossing swords

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Centre & the States

For a fair share

Unable to meet the growing non-Plan expenditure commitments on salary, pension and development activities, the States seek a more equitable share of t

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Politically motivated: Medha Patkar

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Stoking the fire

Pune has become a breeding ground for Hindu militancy, and the deplorable attacks in June have exposed a dangerous communal problem that exists in th

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Price of extravagance

Brazilians continue to protest against the Dilma Roussef government for spending huge sums of money to host the FIFA World Cup at a time of economic d

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A plan for partnership

Ways in which India can contribute to and benefit from Africa’s economic and political resurgence.

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Livelihood Issues

Sea of troubles

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Murder in a mill

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Unpleasant journey

The detention, by the Railway Police at Palakkad Junction, of 579 children from northern and eastern States being taken to orphanages in Kerala withou

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Cultural Policing

Publishers as censors

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Targeting NGOs

The timing and contents of the I.B. report naming select NGOs and individuals as working against the national interest exposes the Narendra Modi gover

Letters to the Editor

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Livelihood Issues

Double disadvantage

Governments on either side of the Palk Bay must realise that many years of displacement, lengthy processes of relocation, and huge losses suffered in

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Rise and fall of PWM

Rakhshanda Jalil’s book offers valuable insights into the emergence of a consciously progressive, almost left-wing, literary and cultural movement.

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The good, the bad & the ugly

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Modifying democracy

To reduce the members of the Council of Ministers to ciphers is to subvert the Constitution. The trend has been set afoot.

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No legal bar

The Intelligence Bureau report can be taken as an admission by the government that there is nothing illegitimate about the funding of NGOs although it

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‘Our struggle was funded by the people’

Interview with S.P. Udayakumar, coordinator, People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy.

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‘The report is to discredit protests by people’

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New truth regime

The Intelligence Bureau’s report gets it all wrong in accusing the robust civil society and its NGOs of threatening national economic security.

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Holy cow

The I.B. report leaves out India’s biggest NGO, the RSS, which has been accused by independent fact-finding reports of accepting foreign funds in th

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‘Need to regulate NGOs better’

Interview with BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain.

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Confidence vote

The presidential election has once again proved that the majority of Syrians are behind President Bashar al-Assad despite the miseries caused by the c

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Warning signals

Trade unions feel that the Rajasthan government’s proposed amendments to labour laws, which industry representatives have hailed, have serious implic

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Letter from Beirut

Fighting for dignity

Around 300 Palestinians are on hunger strike in occupied Palestine protesting against the inhuman provision that allows the Israeli authorities to arr

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‘Right to protest under threat’

Interview with Samit Aich, executive director, Greenpeace India.

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Muzaffarnagar riots

Clutching at FIRs

The victims of the Muzaffarnagar riots still live in abysmal conditions in relief camps with no hope of justice or rehabilitation.

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Taking new routes

Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, believed to be operating out of the Pakistan Mission in Colombo, seems to be at the centre of a terror network

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Sonali Dasgupta

An affair to remember

Educated in Santiniketan, refined and cultured, tall and lissome, Sonali Dasgupta personified the West’s perception of the enigmatic Indian beauty, wh

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Refined recreation: Stage adaptation of Ponniyin Selvan

The stage adaptation of “Ponniyin Selvan”, presented in Chennai in June by Magic Lantern, does not disappoint as an honest attempt to retain the soul

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Killing competition

Pharma multinationals use the FDI route to acquire Indian companies in order to monopolise the generic market.

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