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Stories on the mining mafia in Tamil Nadu
In this issue
24-07-2015
43 STORIES
Column
Imperial manoeuvres
Genomes
Problem put to rest
Subhash Jeyan
Computing
A brain-like computer
Subhash Jeyan
Material Science
To conduct or to insulate?
Subhash Jeyan
Zanzibar
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
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
unmediated
The Dear Disappeared
Through my window
The poet as critic
People's movement
Ripples of hope
Books
Porous divide
Rather than looking at religious communities as binary opposites, the book presents a picture of a religious spectrum where considerable osmosis took
Afghanistan
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
Lead Story
Legal imprints
Riverbed mining continues unabated in the country despite directions of the courts and repeated assurances from State governments.
World Affairs
Road to reconciliation
Controversy
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
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.
World Affairs
Balance of power
Readers write
Letters to the Editor
Sri Lanka
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
Crime
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
Interview: Sanil Bhatia, Uber
‘We have launched key safety initiatives’
Interview with Sanil Bhatia, general manager, Uber, Pune.
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.
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
Space
Methane in Mars
SPOTLIGHT
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
Lead Story
Rivers, the lifelines of the land
Sand mafia
Murders most foul
Child Health
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
Lead Story
Tricks of the trade
Land Bill
Growing resistance
The Narendra Modi government’s keenness to push through the Land Acquisition Bill faces stiff resistance from various organisations that have deposed
Books
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
Greece
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
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
Books
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.
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
Beef exports
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
Books
Media’s problems
The book turns the searchlight on a wide spectrum of issues concerning the media.
BJP
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
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
History
From classical Indology to rigorous social science
Interview with Hermann Kulke, Professor Emeritus of South and South-East Asian History in Kiel University, Germany.
Granite mining
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
Tribute
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
Tribute
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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