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Pulwama: was there a conspiracy?

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12-03-202131 STORIES

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Panchamsali and Kuruba caste groups demand increase in percentage of quota in Karnataka

Chief Minister Yediyurappa finds himself in a catch-22 situation as a Lingayat subsect wants to be reclassified within the OBC list, while the Kuruba

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Imaginary enemies

Contrary to the vilification of Islamic rulers of the medieval era by Hindutva warriors over an imagined past of forcible conversion, historical evide

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Condition of Muslims in West Bengal: A reality check

Official data available in the public domain show that the claims made against Muslims in West Bengal in the election run-up are false.

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LEPAKSHI TEMPLE

The grandeur of the Vijayanagar era temple at Lepakshi, Andhra Pradesh

Built in the 16th century, the golden age of the Vijayanagar empire, the Lepakshi temple in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh boasts impressive scu

Sudha Mahalingam

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Interview: Audrey Truschke

Audrey Truschke: ‘I am not alone in refusing to sway with the Indian political winds’

Interview with the historian Audrey Truschke.

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TRIBUTE: Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer (1929-2021): Captain out of a trap

Actor Christopher Plummer (1929-2021) was much more than Captain von Trapp, the role that he is most identified with. In a remarkable career of over s

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D.N. Jha: A historian as myth buster

Professor D.N. Jha (1940-2021) sought to bring the dis-privileged into the historical canvas and celebrated pluralism and dissent in his writings.

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Justice P.B. Sawant

Justice P.B. Sawant (1930-2021): Champion of civil liberties

Justice (retired) P.B. Sawant (1930-2021) will be remembered for his deep involvement in social activism, his unfaltering position on civil and human

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DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

Funds crunch cripples industrialisation in North-eastern States

The Narendra Modi government’s industrialisation policy for the north-eastern States has proved to be a non-starter as it is highly centralised and fu

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RENEWABLE ENERGY

Maharashtra aims to achieve 40 per cent electricity generation through renewable sources by 2030

The Maharashtra government pushes for solar power generation under its new unconventional energy policy.

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Signs of a thaw between India and China

The agreement between India and China to withdraw their troops deployed in the Pangong Tso area is a positive sign of the two sides returning to the p

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Bhima Koregaon case: planted evidence?

Investigations by Arsenal Consulting, a global digital forensics consulting company, have revealed that evidence had been planted in the activist Rona

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Education in the time of pandemic

Online teaching cannot be a substitute for physical schools and the opportunities that schools offer for learning and building relationships.

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Chamoli flash flood: A wake-up call

Geologists and glaciologists see the recent landslide and flash flood in Uttarakhand as part of inevitable natural processes given the fragility of th

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CHAMOLI DISASTER

‘Our scientists have not found any evidence of a glacial lake in the region so far’

Interview with Kalachand Sain, Director, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology.

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Himalayan tragedy in Uttarakhand

The flash flood in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, which left death and ruin in its wake, was a man-made calamity resulting from the government’s decision to al

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Disha Ravi's Arrest

Disha Ravi’s arrest sparks off protests in Bengaluru

Friends, former classmates and members of civil society are speaking up and protesting against the Delhi Police’s arrest of Disha A. Ravi, a young and

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Interview: Kanwar Grewal

Kanwar Grewal: ‘I feel very responsible for what is happening around me’

Interview with Kanwar Grewal, singer.

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Farmers' movement

Farmers' movement gathers steam in Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh

Support from the khaps of western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and protests across the country have infused new energy into the farmers’ movement amidst

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Interview: Sarwan Singh Pandher

Sarwan Singh Pandher: ‘The government has to first create an environment conducive to talks’

Interview with Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Punjab.

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Trinamool stares at split in Muslim vote

New political equations emerge in West Bengal with the Left-Congress alliance in the process of sealing an understanding with the influential Islamist

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Revisiting Pulwama

Frosty relations with Pakistan after the Pulwama terror attack

Post Pulwama, India-Pakistan ties took a nosedive with the Modi government claiming that its hard-line tactics made Pakistan bend to its will when the

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Farmers' agitation

Popular resentment against the BJP-led Centre rises as ongoing farmers' agitation spreads, shows effects in Punjab local body elections

The spread of the farmers’ agitation to many parts of northern India, the traction it gets from other sections of society and the decimation of the BJ

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Revisiting Pulwama

Jingoism as politics

The ‘nationalist sentiment’ Modi evoked at every election rally post-Pulwama attack and his frequent exhortations around the Balakot air strikes and t

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Revisiting Pulwama

New world order and Pulwama

The apparent failure to act on intelligence inputs ahead of the Pulwama attack is alarming enough, but it is downright frightening to analyse the chai

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Pulwama Revisited

Why were intelligence inputs ahead of Pulwama attack ignored?

Frontline is now in possession of official documents that underscore the point that the whereabouts of the Pulwama attack’s key conspirator, Mudasir A

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Australia to make big tech pay for the news they link and direct users to

Australia’s proposal to make big tech firms such as Google and Facebook pay for the news they link to is being closely watched by many countries as a

The nation wants to know

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Diplomacy in militancy

The book, about the need for negotiations and talks, abounds with an astonishing number of case studies in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

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Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898): A man with a mission

An immensely readable biography of the reformist Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, and a corrective to existing studies of Muslim engagement with the colonial stat

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Eleven intelligence inputs warning of Pulwama attack were ignored

Frontline’s investigation reveals that 11 intelligence inputs warning of the Pulwama terrorist attack of February 14, 2019, were ignored. Who was resp

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