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31 STORIES
Labour force survey
Unemployment crisis revealed
The government releases its report on the labour force after a five-month delay, confirming the serious unemployment crisis in the country.
Electronics
Ultrafast movies get longer
Short story
The clay girdle
Books
Politics of lynching
This book documents the spate of gruesome cow-related lynchings after 2014 even as it studies the importance of the cow in the religio-cultural life o
Immunology
Hope for Type I diabetes patients
Public health
Shortfall in skilled health workforce
NSSO data
Taking control of data
By merging all major statistical bodies and bringing them under one Ministry, the government has compromised their autonomy and the future of independ
Congress
Time to introspect
The monumental defeat in the general election has created a crisis of confidence in the Congress, which urgently needs to resolve internal issues and
Kashmir
Operation Kashmir
After its massive victory in the Lok Sabha election, the Bharatiya Janata Party plans to capture Jammu and Kashmir on its own strength, and it is expe
Kashmir
Zero-sum game
The right course before the new BJP-led government at the Centre will be to avoid confrontation, respect domestic pacts, and give trust and dialogue a
West Bengal
Bitter turf war
The Trinamool Congress is under pressure as its MLAs and workers defect to the BJP after the latter’s success in the Lok Sabha election, and post-poll
U.N. report on Kashmir
Scathing report
India summarily rejects a U.N. Special Rapporteurs’ letter seeking progress on administering justice in cases of alleged human rights violation in Jam
Iran
Stirring the fire
War clouds are looming again on the horizon, with the Trump administration issuing threats and orchestrating “psychological warfare” against Iran.
Karnataka
Existential crisis
Successive electoral setbacks of the Congress in Karnataka, where it is a junior partner in the coalition government with the JD(S), show that the par
Prakash Ambedkar
‘Pressing need for the VBA’
Prakash Ambedkar, founder of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi, on the outcome of the Lok Sabha election.
Denmark
Being inhuman
Denmark’s right-wing government rejects the asylum pleas of an elderly Afghan woman with dementia and now seeks to deport her, even as Europe is grip
Vijay Prashad
Teesta Setalvad
‘Democracy was hollowed out in the past five years’
Books
Abiding relevance of Mahatma Gandhi
A timely book on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi that holds valuable lessons for the country today and shows why Gandhi remains important.
Frontline interview
Capitalism, populism & crisis of liberalism
Interview with Akeel Bilgrami.
Gujarat
Hindu Rashtra at work
Gujarat’s Muslims have no representation in the Lok Sabha, and the community, which forms 10 per cent of the population of the State, sends out this m
Maharashtra
Own goal
The declining quality of leadership, the failure to cash in on the Maratha vote, and the unwillingness to forge alliances with smaller parties are som
History
Making history accessible
A translation project, involving 21 volumes written in medieval Persian on the Adil Shahi dynasty of the Bijapur sultanate, which M.M. Kalburgi was he
EVMs
EVMs: Fears remain
Reports of discrepancies in the figures of votes counted and polled in various constituencies raise questions about the use of electronic voting machi
Exclusive: Inquiry report on Elavarasan's death
A closed chapter?
The report of the Singaravelu Commission, which probed the death of the Dalit youth Elavarasan after his marriage with a Vanniyar girl, has concluded
Biophysics
A new protein that glows
Periyar Tiger Reserve
Sights & sounds of Periyar reserve
The Periyar Tiger Reserve has an alluring landscape of plant and animal species and one of the best conservation programmes.
A.J.T. Johnsingh
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Looming economic war
In the U.S.-China tariff war, there is no economic gain to be derived by either side. But the U.S. is pushing ahead by bringing in the national securi
Essay
Congress: Lessons from history
The Congress must introspect and make the best out of the Nehru-Gandhis’ legacy without downplaying the contributions of several other Congress leader
Letters
Letters to the Editor
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05-04-2024
‘I don’t get rattled easily’: Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
Is India truly the voice of the Global South at WTO?
Haryana: Scripting a new chapter
Alliance of convenience: AAP, Cong seal deal for Delhi, to go solo in Punjab
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22-03-2024
‘Scent of a Bird’: A Malayalam story in translation
Babycha’s wager
A new biography delves into the turbulent life and subversive legacy of Michael Madhusudan Dutt
WTO is now just a tool to bully weaker nations
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08-03-2024
Mahatma Gandhi, in his own words
Finding home in the act: How Aagaaz theatre trust empowers young lives through art
Beyond borders: Unhoming in Lahore’s magical world
A worthy sequel to Animal Farm?
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23-02-2024
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: A force to reckon with
How would Vivekananda view the Ramjanmabhoomi movement and Ram Mandir?
Modi government’s crackdown on FCRA cripples civil society organisations
Rahul Gandhi, Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, and the power of walking
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