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COVER STORY
14-11-2014
Labour under attack
Labour laws
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Briefing
Drug pricing
Bitter medicine
India
By forcing the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority to withdraw its internal guidelines to cap the prices of 108 essential drugs, the NDA governm
India & Pakistan
Border flare-up
India
India and Pakistan trade charges as ceasefire violations along the LoC take many lives and affect thousands of families on both sides of the border.
Trapped in a recession
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Political Corruption
Qualified respite
India
The Supreme Court grants bail to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and her co-convicts in the disproportionate wealth case but makes it cl
Misguided sage
Books
The book is replete with oversimplifications and inaccuracies and appears to be a crash course for U.S. politicians bewildered by the complex world ar
Interview: Rahaab Allana
Exploring the subcontinent
Arts & Culture
Rahaab Allana on how the cultural history of the subcontinent has been shaped by images, some of which were on display at the exhibition.
Defence
No flight of fancy
India
The test flight of India’s subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay, which can carry both nuclear and conventional warheads and has a range of 1,000 km, goes e
Inventing an enemy
Books
The book argues that global jehad is a “myth” used by the U.S. “military-industrial-congressional complex” which wants wars for its survival.
Labour law reforms
The curse of cheap labour
Lead Story
A society that systematically shortchanges its workforce will have to pay dearly.
Nobel Prize/Medicine
Inner GPS
Science & Technology
The Nobel Prize-winning work of John O’Keefe and May-Britt and Edvard Moser has unravelled the brain’s positioning and navigation system and marks a p
Sri Lanka
Victory of sorts
World Affairs
The European Court of Justice strikes down the E.U.’s anti-terrorism sanctions against the LTTE, imposed in 2006, on the technical grounds that they w
Bolivia
Morales’ hat-trick
World Affairs
Bolivian President Evo Morales’ landslide win for a third successive term in office is a victory of nationalisation over privatisation and a huge boos
Nobel Prize
For globalisation of compassion
India
Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace laureate, talks about his work, his mission and the award.
West Asia
Syria’s ruin
World Affairs
Even as Jabhat al Nusra draws youth to its side by offering them a chance to lead a life of dignity, Syrians of various ideological hues are equally d
Yemen
Kingmakers’ march
World Affairs
The Houthis, who have taken over the capital and other key cities of Yemen, want to be in a position to decide who rules the country. They themselves
United Kingdom
The last hurrah?
World Affairs
Questions are being raised about the “shelf life”of the I.S. Those who were initially seduced by its message now believe they have ended up creating a
Photography
Identity narratives
Arts & Culture
Portrait photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries from the Alkazi collection make for a rich visual interpretive history and contribute to a
Cover Story
Labour under attack
Lead Story
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s labour law reforms, aimed at supporting his “Make in India” campaign, have been designed without any discussion involvi
Contract labour
In the name of contract
Lead Story
There is an urgent need to introduce labour reforms to halt the mindless employment of contract labour in establishments having jobs of a perennial na
Labour statistics
Statistical half-truths
Lead Story
The relevance of labour statistics is seriously undermined by the dominant neoliberal ideology which seeks to cover up and even shut out any evidence
Elections
Centralising politics
Politics
The strategy of single-party control that the BJP brought to national politics through the Lok Sabha election has found its nuanced advancement in the
Industry upbeat
Lead Story
Elections/Maharashtra
No smooth sailing
Politics
The anti-incumbency factor and a well-thought-out strategy of accepting powerful rebels from rival parties helped the BJP emerge as the single largest
Elections/Haryana
Significant win
Politics
The BJP wins a majority in Haryana for the first time on its own and elects Manohar Lal Khattar as the first non-Jat Chief Minister in 18 years.
The legal basis
India
Case studies
Hapless victims
Lead Story
Data Card
India and space
Data Stories
After the Mars orbiter underlines India’s self-reliance in its space programme, now its focus shifts to sending astronauts into space.
Column
One more burden
Jayati Ghosh
Critiquing nationalism
K.Satchidanandan
Bridging a divide
Books
The book is a collection of erudite essays on various facets of India’s contribution, largely through Buddhism, to all aspects of Chinese religious, c
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Feb 10, 2023
P. Sainath: ‘I wrote this book for the people in it’
Editor’s Note
Shah Rukh Khan: The new action hero on the block
Tapovan Vishnugad: NTPC project at the heart of Joshimath crisis
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Jan 13, 2023
Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus seek India’s support as Sinhala government targets temples
Aggressive Koreas leave peninsula tense
Sex, lies, and chicken curry
A chat over tikki
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Jan 27, 2023
The Great Land Grab in Jammu and Kashmir
Great Nicobar development projects disregard risk in earthquake-prone area
How the Serendipity Arts Festival celebrated the spirit of community
Pele (1940-2022): At his feet, football transformed into poetry
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