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31 STORIES
Livestock and poultry
Livestock and poultry: Rising stock
Exotic livestock breeds are growing significantly while indigenous cattle are stuck in a low-growth zone, according to the latest Livestock Census.
Astronomy
Gamma rays get an energy boost
Climate change
Alarm bells ring on GHG emissions
The salmon run
Alaska: The salmon run and the grizzly bear
Every summer, the salmon run, when the fish moves from the ocean to the rivers of Alaska to breed, is an event eagerly awaited by grizzly bears retur
G. SHAHEED,
Nigil Haroon
West Bengal
The Owaisi factor
With the BJP polarising Hindu votes in its favour to challenge the Trinamool’s supremacy in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee can ill afford a division of
Institutions
Restoring the past in Sabarmati Ashram
The latest project to redevelop the Sabarmati Ashram is facing some resistance, especially from direct descendants of its original inhabitants, and qu
Social media
Mastodon: A new social media platform
Social media aficionados unhappy with platforms such as Twitter for various reasons now have a new option, Mastodon.
Social media
The Pegasus fiasco: Privacy in peril
The targeted snooping of WhatsApp accounts in India by malicious software raises concerns about privacy, data protection and citizens’ rights.
India
Jammu & Kashmir: Seething Valley
Nearly four months after the abrogation of special status, Kashmir simmers with rage, frustration and fear.
Julian Assange
Assange languishes in jail
The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in need of urgent medical attention, continues to be in prison despite the dropping of all charges against him.
Bolivia
Racist coup in Bolivia
Right-wing forces effect a violent regime change in Bolivia forcing Evo Morales to quit as President and seek asylum in Mexico.
United States
Trial and error: The impeachment proceedings against Trump
The impeachment trial against President Donald Trump over Ukrainegate may end up hurting the Democratic Party because the Republican-controlled Senate
National Register of Citizens
Nationwide NRC: Roll of contention
The government’s plans for a nationwide NRC and new citizenship laws lead to a fresh round of protests in Assam and other north-eastern States.
Spotlight
Electoral bond scheme: Hidden bonds
A media expose shines the light on the Modi regime’s subterfuge in preserving the opaqueness of the electoral bond scheme, which ensured that only the
Sri Lanka
Rajapaksas back in the game
With Gotabaya Rajapaksa winning the presidential election in Sri Lanka and his brothers Mahinda and Chamal Rajapaksa holding important positions, the
Controversy
Death on IIT-M campus
A student’s death on the IIT Madras campus again brings to the fore a serious structural malaise in the institute.
Higher Education
A case to make higher education free
Higher education must not only be provided through public institutions but be completely free, not allowing any exclusion on the grounds of impecuniou
Interview
Prof. Avijit Pathak: ‘Language is not a prisoner of religion’
Interview with Prof. Avijit Pathak of JNU.
Interview: Prof. Firoze Khan
Prof. Firoze Khan: ‘Sanskrit belongs to us all’
Interview: Raziya Mohammed Kutty, Sanskrit teacher
‘I don’t associate language with religion’
Interview with Raziya Mohammed Kutty, Sanskrit teacher.
Interview: Gopalika Antharjanam
Gopalika Antharjanam: ‘It is our right to learn or teach any language’
Interview with retired Arabic teacher Gopalika Antharjanam.
Higher Education
Communalising the BHU campus
Students at Banaras Hindu University, who are targeting a Muslim professor appointed to teach Sanskrit and a university official who performed her dut
Higher education
Privatising a public good
The argument that India cannot afford low fees at institutions of higher education does not square with the massive giveaways to corporates. The commo
Interview
Prof. Shyam Menon: Acts of an insecure state
Interview with Prof. Shyam B. Menon, educationist.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
End of free trade myth
The collapse of the WTO’s dispute settlement mechanism seems imminent and challenges the very basis of the so-called post-WTO freer trade order.
Letter & Spirit of the Constitution
The missing spirit of the Constitution in Maharashtra goverment formation
The facts of the Maharashtra developments bring out starkly the distinction between compliance with the letter of the Constitution and the spirit of i
Lead Story
BJP retired hurt in Maharashtra
The BJP loses the power game in Maharashtra in the face of rare opposition unity and critical judicial intervention.
Profile of a politician
Uddhav Thackeray: Reluctant politician
Coalition politics
Beaten back in Maharashtra
Sharad Pawar, the master strategist, outwits the BJP, which has been reduced to watching the game from the sidelines in Maharashtra.
Books
Rethinking priorities
The Nobel-winning economists have ignored the deeper issues that affect the lives of ordinary people in this otherwise informative and policy-oriented
Books
The medieval Deccan
A reading of three books throws light on the culture and politics of the Persianate world of the medieval Deccan.
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05-04-2024
Haryana: Scripting a new chapter
Alliance of convenience: AAP, Cong seal deal for Delhi, to go solo in Punjab
Karnataka: Congress still hunting for a compelling strategy
Is India truly the voice of the Global South at WTO?
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22-03-2024
Minimum Support Price: A question of how, not why
Fali S. Nariman (1929-2024): A life dedicated to the Constitution’s promise
Farmers’ protest: It’s a battle against servitude
Kerala’s brain drain: How student migration impacts society
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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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