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Cauvery water dispute

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14-10-201640 STORIES

Letters to the Editor

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Voice of sanity

FL14GANDHI

RSS & Gandhi’s murder

There is enough historical evidence to nail the RSS’ lie that Nathuram Godse was not a member of that organisation when he assassinated Mahatma Gandhi

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Minding the language

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Anti-farmer mergers

Interview: Captain S. Raja Rao

‘Karnataka is open about its water usage’

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Midnight mayhem

Murder, gang rape, and vandalism in the name of cow protection are changing the face of the Mewat region in Haryana and the future of its predominant

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Supreme Court's Role

Caught in a tangle

The Supreme Court finds it difficult to extricate itself from the Cauvery conundrum even as the disputing States continue to test its ability to adjud

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Towards conciliation

FL14BIPAN

Halting history

The National Book Trust has decided to stop printing the historian Bipan Chandra’s book Communalism: A Primer.

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Inter-State water issues

Disputes aplenty

The Cauvery water dispute has put the focus on inter-State river water disputes in India and the experience so far.

FL14RAMKUMAR

Suspicious end

The alleged suicide of Ramkumar, the accused in the Swathi murder case, at the Central Prison in Chennai, fuels doubts about the investigating authori

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Jammu & Kashmir

Fuelling fear

The terrorist attack in Uri which killed 18 Indian soldiers has generated fears about a resumption of hostilities across the border and added new dime

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Situation in Karnataka

Karnataka’s troubles

The Supreme Court’s directive to release water to Tamil Nadu arouses strong feelings in Karnataka which is yet to recover from two consecutive drought

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Lady Elliot Island

Gentle giants of the Pacific

FL14VELLOREFORT

The other revolt

FL14UP

Uttar Pradesh & Bihar

Divided family

The fight for supremacy between Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav in Uttar Pradesh and the struggle for predominance between t

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Bye-bye NAM?

India’s growing political and strategic alliance with the U.S. came into sharp focus when Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to skip the NAM summit

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People's Initiatives

Voice of the family

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Science & Technology

Scramjet success

FL14BABY

Surrogacy and law

The surrogacy Bill sends out a conservative political message about what kind of families are culturally acceptable. A complete ban on surrogacy, on t

FL14ASSAM

Assamese nationalism

Through academically relevant and well-illustrated arguments, this volume does an admirable job of examining the issues relating to sovereignty in the

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Letter from America: Election watch

In a hall of mirrors

No significant issues drive the campaign. No one is seriously entertaining the questions that bother ordinary Americans. The haste to drop ballots int

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ARUNACHAL PRADESH

High drama again

The tables are turned on the Congress in Arunachal Pradesh as Chief Minister Pema Khandu, who was preferred over previous Chief Minister Nabam Tuki i

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Bigger bomb

North Korea conducts another nuclear test, which helps it gain the capability to produce “standardised and minimised” nuclear warheads, and the U.S. p

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Salafi-jehadism and its cohorts

Two books attempt to explain the apparent contradiction between Islam’s precept and its practice in the context of the wanton destruction and violence

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Cryogenic gains for GSLV

ISRO announces its arrival in the global satellite launch market with the successful flight of the GSLV-Mk II rocket with an indigenous cryogenic engi

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Interview: Dr Soumya Swaminathan

‘Surrogacy a hot topic’

Interview with Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research.

Slice of small-town life

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The lawyer as writer

Many of the writer’s remarks are strikingly relevant to the Indian judicial system.

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Godavari Gundu

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Interview: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah

‘This dispute needs political solution’

Interview with Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.

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Defence Services

United against pay panel award

FL14SYRIA-CONFLICT-AID

Fragile state

Russia and the U.S. were able to come up with a ceasefire agreement for war-ravaged Syria, but the many violations of the agreement and two serious at

Bengaluru’s water woes

FL14FORTNIGHTMAMATA

Singur and Mamata celebrate

FL14WENDYDONIGER

In Conversation: Wendy Doniger

‘Fight words with words’

FL14KARNATAKAPROTEST

Cauvery conflict

The reappearance of the crisis shows that only equitable sharing of the river’s waters combined with scientific water conservation and management meas

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Intolerance unplugged

The academic Meera Nanda is under attack for her article on the Hindu right wing’s positions on the history of science.

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Spending on education

Cost of education

NSSO data reveal marked disparities in what people spend on education and also point to a steady erosion of the state's role in higher education.

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