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14-11-201434 STORIES

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Identity narratives

Portrait photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries from the Alkazi collection make for a rich visual interpretive history and contribute to a

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Letters to the Editor

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Surveyor or statesman?

Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself agreeable to a boundary settlement with China which inevitably must be based on compromise?

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Nobel Prize/Physics

Light revolution

Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura jointly win the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the world’s first blue LED, which has unleashed

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Bitter medicine

By forcing the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority to withdraw its internal guidelines to cap the prices of 108 essential drugs, the NDA governm

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India & Pakistan

Border flare-up

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.

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C.P. Chandrasekhar

Trapped in a recession

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Labour under attack

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s labour law reforms, aimed at supporting his “Make in India” campaign, have been designed without any discussion involvi

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Identity narratives

Portrait photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries from the Alkazi collection make for a rich visual interpretive history and contribute to a

The legal basis

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Political Corruption

Qualified respite

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

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Misguided sage

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

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Interview: Rahaab Allana

Exploring the subcontinent

Rahaab Allana on how the cultural history of the subcontinent has been shaped by images, some of which were on display at the exhibition.

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No flight of fancy

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

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Labour law reforms

The curse of cheap labour

A society that systematically shortchanges its workforce will have to pay dearly.

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Nobel Prize/Medicine

Inner GPS

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

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Victory of sorts

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

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Morales’ hat-trick

Bolivian President Evo Morales’ landslide win for a third successive term in office is a victory of nationalisation over privatisation and a huge boos

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For globalisation of compassion

Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace laureate, talks about his work, his mission and the award.

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Syria’s ruin

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

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Kingmakers’ march

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

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The last hurrah?

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

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Contract labour

In the name of contract

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

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Labour statistics

Statistical half-truths

The relevance of labour statistics is seriously undermined by the dominant neoliberal ideology which seeks to cover up and even shut out any evidence

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Centralising 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

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Elections/Maharashtra

No smooth sailing

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

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Elections/Haryana

Significant win

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.

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Hapless victims

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Inventing an enemy

The book argues that global jehad is a “myth” used by the U.S. “military-industrial-congressional complex” which wants wars for its survival.

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India and space

After the Mars orbiter underlines India’s self-reliance in its space programme, now its focus shifts to sending astronauts into space.

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One more burden

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K.Satchidanandan

Critiquing nationalism

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Bridging a divide

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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