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Aam Aadmi Party's win in Delhi

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06-03-201542 STORIES

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In search of clean air

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Content marketing challenge

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Yoga & health

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Terror as pretext

The Goodluck Jonathan government postpones the elections, citing the Boko Haram insurgency as the reason, even as observers believe that his inability

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Missile power

The success of the canister-launched flight trial of Agni-V reaffirms India’s status as a world-class missile power.

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Setback for Mamata

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Freedom of Expression

Who is the offended?

Shirin Dalvi, the editor of an Urdu daily, is the latest victim of religious bigotry in the country.

Bullying by the state

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Extreme electronics

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Water Resources

Grand revival

Telangana is faced with scarce water resources and the overuse of groundwater. The government’s flagship project Mission Kakatiya aims to revive the c

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Air Squadron No.1

The book is a history of the Indian Air Force narrated with rich details and interesting anecdotes.

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A chilli for your pain

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Five-planet star

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Reprieve for Koli

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Hounding an activist

The Gujarat Police’s pursuit of Teesta Setalvad, who has been fighting for the riot victims in Gujarat, in a case of “misappropriation” of funds smack

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Sharp swing

The AAP employed its own methods to convince the voters of its seriousness to form an honest and corruption-free government, and the campaign worked o

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Reaping whirlwind

Even as the Islamic State, which is on a killing spree, is being gradually pushed back in Iraq and Syria, the goal of a decisive military victory over

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Acts of resistance

International Theatre Festival of Kerala 2015 provided a well-rounded experience of the various forms of theatre.

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Old economics, new stirrings

Interview with the economist and author Ha-Joon Chang.

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Former Minister faces coup charge, in custody

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The night is long

President El-Sisi’s authoritarian measures of silencing the opposition and pushing through IMF-dictated reforms alienate the militant textile workers

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The Rebirth in Puri

Puri is getting ready to host over five million devotees and also a huge number of tourists during Nabakalebara, the life-force-infusing ritual in the

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‘Governance in Delhi our topmost concern’

Interview with Manish Sisodia, senior AAP leader.

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Conflicting interests

The Uttarakhand government has been urging the Centre to withdraw a December 2012 notification that declared a 100-km stretch between Gomukh and Uttar

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Interview: Chief Election Commissioner

‘100 per cent peaceful’

Interview with Chief Election Commissioner H.S. Brahma.

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‘Personalised campaign backfired’

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A famous victory in Delhi

The Aam Aadmi Party’s victory and the manner in which the party consolidated its strengths in Delhi hold important lessons for mainstream political pr

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What next?

The Aam Aadmi Party may venture into small States, or those in which class is the principal driver or those witnessing rapid urbanisation or those wh

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Neutrino scare

India’s neutrino project, slated to come up in Bodi hills in Tamil Nadu, once again runs aground, this time following a petition filed by MDMK leader

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Preamble politics

There are rising concerns about a possible amendment to the Preamble to the Constitution to delete the words “socialism” and “secularism”.

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India’s sordid record

India’s relations with Sri Lanka will heal only if there is a sincere realisation of past mistakes and of the grave damage that India inflicted on a h

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Syriza’s triumph

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ plans to take Greece out of the stranglehold of austerity gain support ahead of the country’s negotiations with the Eur

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Food insecurity

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Interpreting the numbers

A new socio-economic group

The AAP’s victory is the result of a new kind of socio-economic formation where religion is not a fault line.

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‘Priority is to save Greece from total destruction’

Interview with Marina Prentoulis, a member of the five-member Coordinating Committee for Syriza in London.

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Swiss Leaks

The investigations revealing the names of several thousand HSBC clients, including prominent Indians, highlight the problems of banking secrecy that e

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Exposing a frame-up

The NIA finds that the arrest of a reformed militant wishing to return to Kashmir was part of a conspiracy by the Delhi Police.

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Plastic ocean

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A wake-up call

The books calls for a new economic model and a new way of sharing the planet.

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Through my Window

Rereading Gandhi

It is in the search for the ethical foundations of democracy that we will be forced to rediscover the relevance of Gandhi.

Letters to the Editor

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Subash Ghising passes away

From a soldier in the Gorkha Rifles regiment, Ghising went on to become the single most powerful leader of the Darjeeling Hills.

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