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Juvenile justice system

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22-01-201642 STORIES

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Economic Perspectives

A candid assessment?

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Economic policies

Price of economic policy failures

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Beeping the beep

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Primacy at stake

The IAS lobby is upset about the Seventh Central Pay Commission recommendation for parity in pay and promotion for all all-India services.

Sensitising the state

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The idea of the Taj

The Taj Mahal, considered the greatest achievement in the world of Indo-Islamic architecture, was originally conceived as “a masterpiece for ages to c

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Laws for automatons

Trade unions react strongly to the fresh set of amendments the government has introduced in the Factories Act without discussions with them.

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Excluded by law

The Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Act setting educational and other eligibility criteria for candidates can have disastrous social consequences.

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Water Resources

Lessons from Colorado

A plan for sustainable management strategies drawing from experiences in the Colorado River Basin in western U.S.

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Breaking bonds to evaporate

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Teeth for an Act

The long-pending amendments to the S.C. and S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, which expand the range of offences committed against them, is finally

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Intellectual giant

Samson Moyo (1954-2015) was tireless and unwavering in his quest for a humane and just social order with agrarian reform and social security at its co

Science & Technology

Photon in a fibre

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A pathfinder

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Tale of hope & despair

A street hawker’s indomitable spirit informs his struggle to keep alive his daughters’ dreams of sporting glory.

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Politics of a case

The Congress has apparently won the first round in the National Herald case with Sonia and Rahul securing bail and the party recording some electoral

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Superconductivity

The new wave

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Importance of Myanmar

A significant contribution to India’s knowledge of the East, which is essential for a successful “Look East” policy.

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A chance for peace

The UNSC resolution on Syria takes into account the ground realities in the region, but Western leaders persist with their contradictory statements.

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Growing hatred

In Jerusalem, the bitterness between the settlers and Palestinians shows signs of worsening as both sides increasingly use guns and knives to settle s

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A life in theatre

A useful work on Badal Sircar, the theatre stalwart whose plays initially took up the concerns of the middle-class youth of Kolkata but later articula

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Road to multipolarity

The Zhengzhou conference of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation adds more muscle to the grouping by incorporating India and Pakistan as its full mem

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An odd (-even) formula

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The Odisha experience

A visit to Konark, Puri and Bhubaneswar in winter can be enriching in terms of experiencing their tradition and culture, be it in the performing arts,

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Showmanship, no breakthrough

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise stopover at Lahore is of a piece with his government’s blow-hot-blow-cold approach to Pakistan.

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Interview: Ved Kumari

‘Government giving in to reactionary ideas’

Interview with Ved Kumari, Professor of Law, University of Delhi, and Chairperson of the Delhi Judicial Academy.

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Shahabuddin Ahmed

Painting for peace

The Bangladeshi painter Shahabuddin Ahmed amazes one and all with his creativity and inspires with his rebellious free spirit.

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Interview: Swagata Raha

‘Replicating a failed Western model’

Interview with Swagata Raha, Senior Legal Researcher (Consultant) at the Centre for Child and the Law, National Law School of India University, Bengal

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Activist officer

Brahm Dev Sharma (1929-2015), a lifelong champion of tribal rights, will be missed most keenly by the Gonds of Bastar.

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Juvenile Justice Amendment Act

Regressive step

The Ministry of Women and Child Development’s justification of the new amendment on the grounds that reformation homes are not leading to reformation

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Data in doubt

The NCRB data used to justify the new law bringing down the age of responsibility for criminal action are open to interpretation.

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Interview: Dr Shekhar P. Seshadri and Dr Preeti Jacob

‘The child should be given a chance to reform’

Interview with Dr Shekhar P. Seshadri and Dr Preeti Jacob of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NIMHANS, Bengaluru.

How Sujit turned over a new leaf

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Of juveniles and justice

The passage of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children)Bill, 2015, in Parliament exposes the vulnerability of the system in the wake of

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Just hellholes

Juvenile justice homes in Delhi are overcrowded and understaffed. Homes for children are plentiful in Maharashtra but the facilities are misused and d

Letters to the Editor

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Constitution and secularism

The 42nd Amendment made formal the Constitution’s basic commitment to the idea of a secular state—quite contrary to the BJP position that the amendmen

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'Unpaid' labour

In the master’s service

Bitti Chakri, a retrograde practice of engaging Dalits for the household work of landlords for a pittance, continues in the rural areas of north-weste

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Games people play

The vested interests of politicians and businessmen make sports governing bodies breeding grounds of corruption and nepotism.

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Juvenile justice

End of innocence

The government’s decision to amend the juvenile justice law will do little to address the root cause of juvenile crime, most of which is owing to pove

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Denial of dignity and rights

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Wetlands in peril

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