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KERALA,KOCHI,01/07/2014.farmer removing weeds at a paddy field near Thrissur, Kerala as clouds gather over the sky before the onset of rains. With the southwest monsooon playing hide and seek, the farmers remain confused on whether to go for large-scale sowing. As per the World Meteorological Organisation, over 90 per cent of India has recorded deficient -scanty precipitation, with 42 per cent rainfall deficit this June. It has forecast a 60 per cent likelihood of it establishing fully by August. For the farming community, a renwed dry spell in August-September could affect crop yields due to moisture stress during the flowering and late growth stages.Photo: K_K_Mustafah.

El Nino worries

El Nino is expected to hit in the second half of the monsoon period, but whether it will cause a drought is still not certain. While consumers may be

(FILES) In this photograph taken on May 26, 2014, rescue workers and mangled train compartments are pictured after the Gorakhdham Express rammed into a goods train at Chureb station in Khalilabad, some 700 kilometres (430 miles) east of New Delhi. India's incoming railways minister promised to improve safety on the ramshackle network May 27, 2014 as the death toll from a train crash in the north rose to 26 after more bodies were pulled from mangled carriages. AFP PHOTO/FILES

Poor track record

FDI in the Railways without fixing the conditions that lead to frequent accidents seems to be an overly ambitious idea.

‘Model code is like a fire brigade’

Interview with S.Y. Quraishi, former CEC.

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DELHI, 18/02/2014: Media Persons wait to capture any action related to the passage of the Telangana Bill at Parliament house in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: Monica Tiwari.

News space on sale

Political parties flush with funds provided by corporate houses are winning over journalists, and some news organisations are creating packages for el

In their bad books

Penguin withdraws Wendy Doniger’s book on an alternative history of Hinduism bowing to pressure from right-wing forces.

Containers are unloaded from the MSC Valeria, an ultra-large containership from the Mediterranean Shipping Company S. A., of Geneva, at Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone at Mundra, some 400 Km from Ahmedabad on June 4, 2013. India's industrial output accelerated by a surprise 2.5 percent in March, its fastest pace in five months, data showed Friday, fuelling hopes that a sharp economic slowdown could be bottoming out. The economy has been struggling under the weight of high interest rates in the face of uncomfortably strong inflation and sluggish investment amid fears about graft and disappointment with the slow pace of government economic reforms. AFP PHOTO/ Sam PANTHAKY

Vanishing commons

Across the country, the common wealth of the people, like land and water, is being sold off to big capital, leading to environmental degradation and l

Her story

After winning her right to bear her child, an intellectually disabled rape survivor proves pessimists wrong about the child’s well-being.

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