COV 24-07-15

Stories on the mining mafia in Tamil Nadu

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24-07-201542 STORIES

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Imperial manoeuvres

Problem put to rest

A brain-like computer

Material Science

To conduct or to insulate?

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Island in the sun

Zanzibar, once the centre of East Africa's slave trade, is a melting pot of many cultures and a vital link in the cultural continuum of the Indian Oce

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Rising stakes

India’s meat exports, which bring in significant revenue every year, have been on an uptrend in recent years, with beef accounting for a large chunk o

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Media’s problems

The book turns the searchlight on a wide spectrum of issues concerning the media.

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Rivers, the lifelines of the land

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Murders most foul

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People's movement

Ripples of hope

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Nurture mission

Odisha shows the way in the implementation of the ICDS scheme to ensure that children receive nutrition and care in their earliest years, but the Cent

Tricks of the trade

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Growing resistance

The Narendra Modi government’s keenness to push through the Land Acquisition Bill faces stiff resistance from various organisations that have deposed

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Nehru’s contradictions

The four volumes on Nehru that no student of India’s history can do without throw light on different facets of his personality, including his intolera

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Porous divide

Rather than looking at religious communities as binary opposites, the book presents a picture of a religious spectrum where considerable osmosis took

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Deepening morass

The Taliban’s attack on the Afghan parliament, the latest in a spate of offensives, and a steady rise in its territorial gains are ominous signs that

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Legal imprints

Riverbed mining continues unabated in the country despite directions of the courts and repeated assurances from State governments.

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Avoidable tragedy

The refusal of European authorities and the IMF to address Greek debt restructuring exposes their desire to placate financial capital, but it may end

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Once a hill

The illegal granite mining industry in Madurai district has cost the exchequer an estimated Rs.16,000 crore and has been responsible for wiping off t

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Andhra Pradesh & Telangana

Cash-for-vote scam

The battle between the Telangana Rashtra Samiti and the Telugu Desam Party hits a new low with the names of a TDP MLA of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

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The sound of silence

The Bharatiya Janata Party, which was projected as the font of new and positive politics not so long ago, is reeling under a spate of exposes on the e

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Letter from America

Liberal turn

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent judgments on gay marriage, health care and housing suggest that even a highly conservative institution has to move wit

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China up-close

The book deals at great length with the author’s business engagements with China, the thrust of which was Sino-U.S. trade and economic cooperation.

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Mineral deposits

Titanium connection

It is the ore ilmenite, and not thorium, that the “mining mafia” is after in the beach sands of Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Titanium, a strategic m

Road to reconciliation

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Twist in the ISI tale

After humiliating the former Director of an institution of national importance and vitiating the atmosphere, the government does an about-turn and tri

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Sister Nirmala Joshi (1934-2015)

Service with a smile

Sister Nirmala (1934-2015), who passed away on June 23, was a true inheritor of all that Mother Teresa stood for.

Balance of power

Letters to the Editor

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Walking a tightrope

The passage of the Constitution 19th Amendment limiting the powers of the executive presidency, the dissolution of Parliament and the announcement of

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Death for daring

The killing of two Hindi journalists who exposed the illegal activities of powerful people in their respective regions shows how press freedom is at t

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Interview: Sanil Bhatia, Uber

‘We have launched key safety initiatives’

Interview with Sanil Bhatia, general manager, Uber, Pune.

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Beach sand mining

Life is not a beach

Mining for beach sand minerals poses a threat to the economic and social fabric of fishing villages along Tamil Nadu’s coast.

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Riverbed mining

A requiem for rivers

Unscientific and indiscriminate quarrying, illegal stockyards and the nexus between officials and the sand mafia may lead to rivers in Tamil Nadu bein

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Methane in Mars

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Moving on apps

Online taxi aggregators have many takers in the country despite the ambiguity over regulation of such services and a ban on them in Delhi. But is Ind

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From classical Indology to rigorous social science

Interview with Hermann Kulke, Professor Emeritus of South and South-East Asian History in Kiel University, Germany.

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Illegal Sand Mining

The mother of all loot

Illegal mining of natural resources like river sand, granite and placer minerals in utter disregard of the laws of the land, the environment and the l

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The Dear Disappeared

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Through my window

The poet as critic

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Charles Correa: From earth to sky

Charles Correa (1930-2015) always managed to find the right balance between demand and creativity and his architectural response invariably emerged ju

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Praful Bidwai: Organic intellectual

Activist, humanist, pacifist, journalist, columnist, uncompromising secularist, Praful Bidwai (1949-2015) was passionate about his quest for justice a

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