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Supreme Court judgment on the power struggle in Delhi

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03-08-201838 STORIES

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C.P. Chandrasekhar

Empty promises

The timing of the Modi government’s announcement of a hike in the minimum support prices for kharif crops suggests that this may be another of its ta

C.P. Chandrasekhar

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Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

Graded or degraded?

The MHRD’s rules and regulations for graded autonomy for universities locate autonomy in the financial domain and the emphasis is on steps to facilita

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Mexican quake

The victory of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and the leftist coalition led by MORENA, his new party, in the July 1 elections could possibly bring a brea

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A spring far away

Events that followed Hosni Mubarak’s ouster prove that Egypt was pregnant with a revolution that was abortable. Now the military’s hold over the count

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Amendment to a labour law in Kerala

Now, they can sit and serve

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Saving wildlife

A collection of essays on a conservationist’s single-minded campaign for protection of wildlife sanctuaries in Karnataka.

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Lawlessness in Tamil Nadu

Police raj

Midnight knocks on doors and wee-hour arrests of those who raise voices of dissent have virtually become the order of the day in Tamil Nadu of late.

Ilangovan Rajasekaran

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Diary from Trumpland

America’s reporter

For Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, journalism was simply about doing the right thing.

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Restoring sanity

The Supreme Court lays down the broad principles that should govern the resolution of disputes between the Lieutenant Governor and the Council of Min

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Resisting a refinery

Opposition mounts against a proposed gigantic refinery that threatens to affect the lives of thousands of families of farmers and fishermen in 17 vil

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LIC's takeover of IDBI Bank

Shotgun marriage

The coerced takeover of the publicly owned IDBI Bank by LIC, the country’s largest insurer, will neither protect the interests of the beleaguered bank

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The role of Governors

Political tool

In Goa, Manipur, Meghalaya and Bihar, the BJP brazenly used the Governor’s office to further its political interests. The machinations of the Governo

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Demystifying talaq

A conscientious explanation of the puzzling issue of instantaneous talaq.

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Muon conundrum

An experiment being carried out at Fermilab to measure the magnetic property of the muon has the potential to show the way to new physics.

Model move

The successful resettlement of tribal communities from a village in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve offers important lessons for other States.

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Governors bypassing elected governments

Parallel power

The Supreme Court ruling curtailing the powers of the Lieutenant Governor has done little to stop Kiran Bedi from being a law unto herself and interf

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SFI leader's murder in Kerala

In cold blood

The murder of a student leader in Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam, is an act of extreme brutality that points to the rise of communal and fundamentalis

R. Krishnakumar

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BJP's manoeuvres in Bihar

Losing the plot?

The BJP’s realpolitik considerations in Bihar and its manoeuvres in the Rajya Sabha ahead of the monsoon session of Parliament mark a clear retreat f

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan,Purnima S. Tripathi

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Lynching of nomads in Maharashtra

Killer message

The dangers of fake news become alarming as five nomads are lynched in Maharashtra after a doctored video of child lifters spreads fear and hate.

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The battle goes on

As both the Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP claim “victory” over the July 4 ruling of the Supreme Court, the BJP’s touchiness on the subject of full State

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Trajectory of the tussle

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In the lion’s den

By returning to Pakistan, where he was arrested as soon as his plane landed in Lahore, Nawaz Sharif is expected to make a crucial difference to the fo

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Old order changeth

No team is invincible anymore. The 2018 FIFA World Cup has given hope to smaller teams that nothing is impossible.

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Simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assemblies

Unsafe remedy

The majority of political parties reject the Law Commission’s proposal to hold simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies on th

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‘A landmark judgment’

Interview with V. Narayanasamy, Chief Minister of Puducherry.

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Chemical research

Rise and fall of oxygen

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A “sausage” in the Milky Way

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Election amid hurdles

Mohamed Nasheed, frustrated by the government’s attempts to target him, withdraws from the presidential race in favour of a common opposition candida

R.K. Radhakrishnan

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Revisiting Aurangzeb

A careful reading of history shows that Aurangzeb was not a bigot, although he used religion to further his political ends, and that the interests of

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Cooperative federalism

Governing the Governors

The federalisation of the party system and the emergence of coalition politics make cooperative federalism a political necessity.

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Chemical Research

A merger to measure expansion of the universe

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Oxytocin formulations

Faulty prescription

Citing grave misuse of oxytocin in milch animals, the Centre restricts the manufacture and retail sale of the drug used to prevent postpartum haemorrh

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Vivan Sundaram's work

Many shades of alienation

A retrospective on half a century of Vivan Sundaram’s work is held together by the metaphor of the interrupted journey, in which the artist is the tra

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Mixed bag

India’s coffee exports will likely fall in 2018-19 owing to lower carryover stocks, while sugar shipments will rise on the back of record output.

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Politics of diet

Data from various surveys prove that India is anything but a vegetarian nation, but ever since the BJP came to power at the Centre there have been att

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RSS & Emergency

The RSS and its flock in the BJP have no locus standi to make noises about the Emergency. Its own leaders grovelled before the Congress dispensation t

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Letters to the Editor

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Palestine’s voice

A comprehensive view of the history and the present state of cultural resistance in the occupied West Bank.

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