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Modi government on the backfoot

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27-10-201737 STORIES

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Dangerous gambit

Iraqi Kurds hold and win a referendum for an independent state defying strong warnings from neighbouring countries and the central government in Iraq.

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In damage control mode

The looming economic crisis, a result of reckless policies, has rattled the BJP, which leads the government, and the larger Sangh Parivar.

FL27GSTMEETING

Economic policy

Compounding a crisis

In the hands of the Narendra Modi government, economic policy has been reduced to disaster management following the wreckage caused by GST and demonet

FL27ARUNJAITLEYAKSHAY

Jan Dhan Yojana

Dry accounts

The Jan Dhan Yojana, the government’s flagship scheme that, along with Aadhaar and the mobile, aims to achieve financial inclusion of the poor has run

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Ayurvedic cancer treatment

Battle for recognition

A project to establish scientific parameters for Ayurvedic cancer treatment has been hanging fire despite the Modi regime’s claims of promoting Indian

FL27INDIABIGBAZAAR

De-digitisation of India

FL27DEMONSTRATION

Where is the mind without fear?

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Jammu & Kashmir

Might is right

By denying space for dialogue, the Narendra Modi government has reinforced its policy of a military approach to Kashmir which will only give more oppo

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Campus Politics

Message from Hyderabad

Union election results at the Hyderabad Central University confirm the growing disenchantment with right-wing forces among students.

FL27ROHINGYAKID

Victims twice over

Hyderabad has the largest Rohingya settlement in the country after Jammu, with 4,000 refugees living in 17 camps. Driven out of their own country and

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America’s crime

The book by a former senior leadership analyst with the CIA presents a different picture of Saddam Hussein which is in contrast to his public persona

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‘I am not a votary of mumbo-jumbo Ayurveda’

Interview with Vaidya Balendu Prakash.

Vain engagements

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Dystopia unchecked

The country’s military junta, armed with a new interim Constitution that makes a mockery of democracy, has been postponing elections on some pretext o

FL27HAVANACUBA

Diary from Trumpland

A tale of two islands

One island, a poor socialist state with infrastructure in grave need of modernisation, has slowly emerged out of the chaos caused by a hurricane’s wra

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Vocational training

Chasing a mirage

The Union government’s much-touted schemes to impart vocational training failed in their twin objectives of providing employment and creating a pool o

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Bin Laden, the inside story

The book, backed by relentless research, brings out the actions that led to the killing of the Al Qaeda leader.

FL27STUDENT

A new beginning

The BHU students’ protests have helped consolidate a progressive sensibility that is challenging the feudal system dominating the university.

FL27BOOKSUMANGALA

Of rousing times & tunes

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Rural electrification scheme

Unrealistic initiative

The Prime Minister’s announcement of a rural electrification scheme sounds hollow in view of the government’s track record in implementing earlier sch

FL27GST

Strangulating the informal economy

The current slowdown in the economy, aggravated by the persistent world economic crisis, has much to do with the twin coercive instruments of demoneti

FL27VEGAS

Bloodbath in Las Vegas

A man with little political connection and no real religious fealty, a high-stakes gambler who enjoyed the high life of Las Vegas hotels and casinos,

FL27SBIHQPT

Dangers in a Bill

The Resolution Corporation that the Central government is planning to set up through an Act of Parliament can result in a clean-up of banks and other

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Meat traders in U.P.

Licence to harass

Meat traders in Uttar Pradesh continue to suffer as the administration fails to remove the hurdles placed in the way of their business.

FL27ROHINGYA

In a sea of hate

The fate of the Rohingya refugees in India hangs in the balance as the Narendra Modi government sees them as a threat to national security although po

FL27POWERDATACARDPIC

Electrification

Waiting for light

The government’s latest scheme to achieve universal household electrification is high on ambition and sets impractical targets.

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Mukul Roy quits Trinamool

FL27VVDIPAKMISRA

Targeting judges

The transfer and subsequent resignation of Justice Jayant Patel, whose handling of the Ishrat Jahan encounter case did not go down well with the power

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Campus politics

Saffron setback

Across campuses, students reject the brand of divisive and conservative politics practised by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.

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Fear of ideas

The Sangh Parivar ideologue Dinanath Batra has demanded the removal of a poem by Paash, the revolutionary Punjabi poet, from an NCERT textbook, claimi

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Swachh Bharat Mission

Narrow vision

The Swachh Bharat Mission, by focussing on cleanliness and toilet use, leaves out a wide spectrum of urgent urban sanitation issues such as solid wast

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Grasslands for the tiger

In an extremely anthropogenic landscape, it has become important to launch a habitat and prey-base restoration programme for recovery of tiger numbers

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Infidel (Kafir, 1938)

FL27TFRAJNATHSINGH

Uneasy calm in Darjeeling

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Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

‘Maybe they wanted it to be a mob lynching’

Interview with Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, writer and political observer.

FL27ALTERPOET

Tom Alter: Doyen of dignity

Tom Alter (1950-2017) carved a unique space for himself in Hindi cinema and television and played a major role in reviving Urdu theatre with his robus

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