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10-07-201533 STORIES

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Clouds of despair

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Green country

The international conservation community should admire the efforts Bhutan is making to preserve its environment and give it the maximum support possib

Pseudo ‘trade deals’

Letters to the Editor

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The quest for a pizza

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Passport to crime?

The arguments for and against revoking Lalit Modi’s passport expose the loopholes in India’s legal framework that make it difficult to check white-co

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Wait for Vizhinjam

The Kerala government’s proposal to develop Vizhinjam into an “all-weather, multipurpose, deepwater, mechanised, greenfield port” raises expectations

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Strategic setback

The coming together of the JD(U) and the RJD for the Bihar Assembly elections changes the electoral arithmetic and upsets the BJP’s “divide and surge”

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Quietly eloquent

"Court" creates a believable, real world through a measured narrative that convincingly captures the protagonists’ often-heroic, sometimes-c

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Rise and fall of Lalit Modi

A ruthless businessman who made cricket a spectacle of packaged entertainment, Lalit Modi was a victim of his own success.

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Syria’s ongoing autopsy

The two books reveal a great deal more about the prevailing mood among Syrians than the news reports that track the minutiae of this battle and that b

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More on law, less on justice

The book is primarily about the evolution of the LARR Act, 2013, and the debates that led to the making of it, but on the land question it is limited

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The IPL scam

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BJP's fault lines

Divided family

The controversy surrounding Sushma Swaraj points to intensifying battles within the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

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Building bridges

The book presents ideas about deepening and strengthening the current state of engagement between Latin America and India to the benefit of both sides

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Interview: Prashant Bhushan

‘There is a conflict of interest’

Interview with Prashant Bhushan, activist and advocate.

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Capital drama

The BJP regime at the Centre and the party’s State unit in Delhi are resorting to indirect attacks and direct smear campaigns against the AAP even as

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Flawed & delayed

The Modi government’s choice of candidates to fill the long-pending vacancies in the Central Vigilance Commission and the Central Information Commiss

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Opposition attack

In the line of fire

Opposition parties demand the resignation of Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje and an explanation from the Prime Minister on “Modi-gate”.

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Godmen and libel

In 1862, the head of a religious sect filed a defamation case against a newspaper for exposing his sexual exploitation of female devotees. In a remark

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Game of bluff

The Modi government’s claim that it will seek the direction of the Supreme Court on the legality of approaching the International Court of Justice ag

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Ministerial bluster

The chest-thumping bravado by Ministers of the Modi government on the Army’s covert operations along the Indo-Myanmar border embarrasses the Army and

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Unholy nexus

Revelations of misuse of power by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje to help controversial cricket o

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A breather in the hills

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Letter from America

White rage

Police violence, largely against black people, continues unabated in the U.S., with over 500 killed in the first five months of 2015. The institutiona

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Recipe for disaster

The Maggi controversy brings into sharp focus a disaster that is waiting to happen in India which has a toothless monitoring mechanism for food produc

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FTII controversy

Saffron script

FTII students refuse to accept the government’s nomination of a television serial actor as the chairman of the institute’s governing council.

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Nestle in a soup

The Swiss food multinational finds reality catching up with its claims of producing healthy food for the masses.

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Unceremonious exit

The Director of the Indian Statistical Institute is removed at the fag end of his term for “indiscipline”.

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New slave trade

The recent rescue of bonded workers from a Karnataka factory exposes the mutating form of bonded labour in the unorganised sector, where trafficking w

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Tale of neglect

The Maggi controversy, while shining the spotlight on food safety, has also exposed government apathy towards strengthening monitoring agencies, which

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Noodle watch

Countrywide probes into the presence of contaminants and flavour enhancers in various noodle brands have placed the popular snack under the microscope

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Interview: Sunita Narain, CSE

‘Food safety should become a priority’

Interview with Sunita Narain, director general, Centre for Science and Environment.

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