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Suicide of farmers

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04-09-201537 STORIES

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Understanding the bonds that cause stomach infection

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River of life

Full of stories that are intense and involved, this book fills a major gap in the narrative relating to a river development project and its impact on

When neutrinos switch type

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Despair and hope on the Roof of the World

Ladakh is a vast, wondrous land —its enormous plateaus and lofty mountains traversed by rivers such as the mighty Indus and the Zanskar; its high-alti

Letters to the Editor

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The poverty alleviation way to development

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Interview: Prakash Kammardi

‘The predictability of incomes in agriculture has collapsed’

Interview with Dr T.N. Prakash Kammardi, Chairman, Karnataka Agriculture Prices Commission.

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Playing with fire

Turkey openly enters the fray as the U.S.’ ally in its indirect fight against the Syrian government by convincing the West that jehadists groups such

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India & Bangladesh

Stranded no more

On August 1, more than 51,000 stateless residents in enclaves in India and Bangladesh became citizens of the respective countries after nearly seven

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A real wonderland

The book contains a series of essays on the wildlife in the different landscapes of the Western Ghats and highlights the major conservation challenges

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End of a chapter

Peace talks between the Afghan government and the dominant faction of the Taliban may take a hit with the Taliban confirming that its reclusive leader

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Endangered bloggers

Niladri Chatterjee Niloy becomes the fourth online activist to be targeted this year by religious extremists.

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Blurred boundaries

The book is a comprehensive analysis of the cross-cultural encounters between the countries of Asia and the mutual influences.

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Higher Education

Decline and fall of Tamil Nadu

Uncontrolled expansion of self-financing engineering colleges, absence of competent teachers in most of them, and the deplorable quality of school edu

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Letter from America

Republican machismo vs Hillary Clinton

The 17 Republican presidential candidates’ drift into rhetoric on television and the U.S. elite’s condescension towards Democratic aspirant Bernie S

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Two flags, one State

By allying himself with the BJP, Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed has betrayed the ideals for which Kashmiris fought the Dogras.

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Ebola vaccine offers hope

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Capital punishment

Land acquisition for Andhra Pradesh’s proposed capital leaves farmers and landowners at their wits’ end.

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Murder on college campus

The Uvari model

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Students firm on Chauhan’s removal

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Aesthetics of impermanence

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Threat to free speech

The show-cause notices issued to three television news channels by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry put the spotlight on the inherent potenti

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Creditor’s noose

The State government’s drive against usurious moneylenders is bound to fail because it is not backed by any effort to reach institutional credit to fa

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Rally for justice

The AIKS brings together in a rally in New Delhi the family members of farmers who committed suicide in 12 States.

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Sugarcane growers

Fatal attraction

The prospect of good returns lures farmers into growing sugarcane, but the harvest turns bitter when factories, most of them politically connected, de

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Interview: CRDA Commissioner

‘The government’s priority is to protect agricultural lands’

Interview with Srikant Nagulapalli, Commissioner, Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority.

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New momentum

Sustained protests in a village for the removal of a liquor shop and the death of a crusader against alcohol consumption there provide new energy to t

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Interview: Hannan Mollah

‘Governments are in denial’

Interview with Hannan Mollah, general secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha.

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Interview: Krishna Byre Gowda

‘We are reaching out to farmers’

Interview with Agriculture Minister Krishna Byre Gowda.

Interview: Vaiko

‘We need total prohibition’

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One man’s crusade

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Interview: Prof. B.V. Sreekantan

The quest for ultimate reality

Interview with Prof. B.V. Sreekantan, cosmic ray physicist and astronomer.

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Reports from the States

Areas of darkness

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Interview: Prof. V. Rhymend Uthariaraj

Making successful engineers

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The spectre of suicide

As rural Karnataka reels under an unprecedented wave of suicides by farmers, the State administration looks on, unwilling to address the reasons that

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Women in politics

Women power?

Women continue to be grossly under-represented in Parliament and the State Assemblies and even at the candidate level, underscoring the need for reser

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