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Countrywide student protests over CAA, NRC and NRP

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Science & Technology

Malaria mosquitoes develop resistance to insecticide

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Advanced core catcher for Kudankulam 3 unit

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Submarine cables as seismic sensors

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King among actors

A cerebral actor, Dr Shreeram Lagoo (1927–2019) established a benchmark for naturalistic acting in Marathi theatre and infused subtlety and complexity

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Jharkhand Assembly elections

BJP's losing spree

Jharkhand passes out of the BJP’s control, confirming the trend hinted at in the Haryana election and more clearly felt in the Maharashtra election.

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Gandhi’s assassination

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Tree of life

The baobab is revered in Africa and Madagascar as a sacred and mystical tree. Baobabs can live for more than a thousand years and are perhaps among th

Sudha Mahalingam

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Kolkata's Persian connection

At a time when divisive tendencies threaten to tear asunder the secular fabric of Indian society, Kolkata’s Iran Society stands like an oasis of cultu

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St Thomas' Cathedral

St Thomas' Cathedral: A chapter in Mumbai’s history

St Thomas’ Cathedral, which celebrated its 300th Christmas this year, has a shared history with Mumbai from its colonial days and stands as a symbol o

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Special Court in Pakistan finds Musharraf guilty of high treason

By sentencing former President Musharraf to death for subverting the Constitution, the country’s higher judiciary sends out a strong message on civili

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U.S. & India: Strengthening ties

The second ministerial-level meeting between the U.S. and India underlines the growing strategic closeness of the two countries.

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Diary from Trumpland

Trump plays victim

The sum total of U.S. President Donald Trump’s feverish defence against the impeachment inquiry is that the elites and the socialists are out to get h

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Industrial safety

Deadly violation of safety norms in Delhi

Three fire tragedies in Delhi highlight the lack of respect for safety norms and bring into focus the proposed Code on occupational safety and health,

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Savarkar & the BJP

What was Savarkar’s record in his 83 years to hail him as a hero? Six abject apologies to the British rulers, an unprecedented record in the entire hi

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Questions of justice: The judgments in Nirbhaya and Unnao rape cases

Two judgments, one by the Supreme Court in the Nirbhaya case and the other by a Delhi court in the Unnao rape case involving the former BJP legislator

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People’s march against CAA & NRC: Rallying forces in Tamil Nadu

Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens have snowballed into a mass movement across India. Significant

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People’s march against CAA & NRC: Spontaneous protests in Karnataka

Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens have snowballed into a mass movement across India. Significant

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People’s march against CAA & NRC: A different tune in West Bengal

Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens have snowballed into a mass movement across India. Significant

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People’s march against CAA & NRC: Show of solidarity in Maharashtra

Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens have snowballed into a mass movement across India. Significant

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A self-made fiscal trap

The government’s obsession with the fiscal defict results in reduced public spending and demand and consequently lower tax revenues.

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CAA-NRC Protests

Countrywide CAA & NRC protests: Secular unity

The widespread and continuing public support for the protests against the CAA, the NRC and the NPR has ensured that the issue does not remain a concer

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CAA-NRC Protests

CAA protest: Talking power to Muslims

The policemen who assaulted students at Jamia Millia Islamia University were not out to disperse the protesters. They were showing Muslims that they w

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Remembering Partition

The Urdu satirist Fikr Taunsvi’s account of Partition, written between August and November 1947, brings to life one of the most tragic episodes in the

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On the composite culture of India

One of the most significant frames of India’s cultural aggregation has been the idea of a joint Hindu-Muslim syncretic culture. Indians learn new form

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Historic Friday for Indian Muslims

Muslims ignore the advice of their religious leaders on the CAA.

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NRC & NPR: Policy disaster

With the BJP leaders speaking in multiple voices on the NPR and the proposed NRC and distrust mounting within its own ranks, the party’s strategy seem

Protest against CAA

‘CAA is a threat to marginalised communities’

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Reign of terror in Uttar Pradesh

The pro-majoritarian bias in the police action across Uttar Pradesh indicates an agenda to fan tension rather than diffuse it.

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Unveiling answers

The book examines, through readings from the Quran and the Hadith, the role of the mosque in Islam, and questions the ambivalence about gender equalit

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Shades of life

Paramita Satpathy’s stories present the life of the 21st century woman in the Odisha village, countryside and city effectively and imaginatively.

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Twilight narrative

A historical novel set in Mughal India that looks at history through a subaltern lens.

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Socio-economic factors

Social diversity & economic growth

Social and economic differences along communal and caste lines have led to a lopsided growth in India which favours the higher castes and fails to unl

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CAA-NRC Protests

What is the BJP up to?

The Centre’s brutal crackdown on the protests against the CAA is a naked assertion of the dispensation’s larger aim to fulfil the Sangh Parivar’s Hind

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CAA-NRC Protests

People’s march against CAA & NRC

Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens have snowballed into a mass movement across India. Significantl

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Citizenship Amendment Act

CAA-NRC protests: A nation awakened

The most determined attempt by divisive forces to overthrow the Constitution was met with the strongest resistance by those who believe in it, and the

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Citizenship Amendment Act

CAA: The north-eastern quagmire

The CAA has added to the complexities of settling the question of who is an “illegal migrant” in the north-eastern region. Defining who is indigenous

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