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The curious case of Davinder Singh and his arrest

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14-02-202034 STORIES

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Interview: Kabir Khan

‘Netaji would not like the Right to appropriate him’: Kabir Khan, film-maker

Interview with Kabir Khan, film-maker.

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CAA protests: Relentless resistance

The protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the NPR and the NRC keep gaining momentum, with reaffirmation of the basic spirit of the Constit

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Arctic warming linked to little-studied GHGs

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Fish production

Fisheries sector: Growing catch

The fisheries sector has recorded healthy growth in production and exports in recent years, placing India among the top 10 worldwide in both fields.

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Interview: Sadaf Jafar

‘This is Freedom Struggle II’

Interview: Mohammed Shoaib

‘We have to keep fighting hard’

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Bizarre objects near Milky Way black hole

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Delhi Assembly Elections

Delhi elections: Advantage AAP

Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP seems poised to win Delhi again on the back of the perception of good governance among an electorate that is not moved by the BJ

Development issues

Battle for Aarey

As more and more land is being carved out of Mumbai’s Aarey Forest to satisfy the city’s requirement for space, the forest’s Adivasi residents are fac

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Troubled relations between India and Malaysia

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s views on Kashmir and the CAA upset the Indian government, which retaliates by stopping the import of palm oil from t

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Doha’s resilience

Qatar has suffered economically owing to the blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia, but it has responded to threats with diplomatic maturity. There are now

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BCG revaccination against TB

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Deceptive calm in West Asia

After the precise counterstrike by Iran on U.S. bases in Iraq, the two countries have avoided further drastic action although there is a scaling-up of

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Karnataka: Furore over a Christ statue

In Karnataka’s Kanakapura taluk, the Hindu right wing stirs up a furore over a proposed statue of Jesus in a Christian-majority village that has alway

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The Atlas and the Army chief

The signs are many and disturbing that the Modi government may be contemplating military action to wrest Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

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Flawed script: Rajinikanth's comments on Periyar's 1971 rally

Actor Rajinikanth’s comments on an anti-superstition rally in 1971, organised by Periyar’s organisation, are criticised as part of a scripted move by

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Interview: Dr H. Vinod Bhat, Vice Chancellor, MAHE

Always a pioneer

Interview with Dr H. Vinod Bhat, Vice Chancellor, MAHE.

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Building entrepreneurs

The Manipal Universal Technology Business Incubator, in collaboration with the government of Karnataka, has established incubators for nurturing an ec

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CAA Protests: West Bengal

West Bengal: Right-wing rants

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh keeps up his barrage of aggressive comments, making sure that the party remains in the public eye as the main op

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Eminence & excellence

Manipal Academy of Higher Education is India’s first private, multidisciplinary, multi-college deemed university and offers 290 programmes in 22 disci

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Student support centre

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Going international

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CAA protests: Kerala

CAA protests in Kerala: On collision course

The Kerala Governor spares no opportunity to hinder the State government’s efforts to register its opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and t

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Shaheen Bagh: A vigil for their rights

Since December 15, in the subzero winter chill of Delhi, the women of Shaheen Bagh have kept their protest against the CAA going round the clock in wh

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Dhankhar’s ‘history’

Letters to the Editor

C.P. Chandrasekhar

The road to dominance

Reliance’s success in areas such as telecommunications and retail is the result of aggressive investment and predatory pricing, facilitated by capital

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Agrarian focus

This Festschrift for the social scientist Venkatesh Athreya brings together a wide range of papers relating to agrarian transformation in India.

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The tree family

Richard Powers’ Pulitzer-winning fiction emphasises the ecological interdependence of people and trees.

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A window to village India

The book is a study on the changing pattern of society, economy and polity in contemporary rural India.

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Parliament House attack case

Afzal Guru & Davinder Singh: The missing link

The question of why and how Davinder Singh escaped the radar when Afzal Guru, the convict in the Parliament House attack case, mentioned him as the pe

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Kashmir massacres

Encounters with reality

The news of Davinder Singh’s arrest brings a strange hope, of closure of wounds, for the besieged eight million people of Kashmir whose memories are a

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Counterinsurgency war in Kashmir

Smoke and mirrors

The arrest of DSP Davinder Singh, who was travelling with militants, reawakens questions on his possible link with the 2001 Parliament House attack ca

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Davinder Singh arrest: The plot thickens

The dramatic arrest of Davinder Singh, Deputy Superintendent in the Jammu and Kashmir Police, along with Islamist militants raises new questions about

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