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Hospital nurses gather around the body of Aruna Shanbaug, as they pray for her, during her funeral, in Mumbai, India, Monday, May 18, 2015. Shanbaug, a Mumbai nurse who was in a vegetative state for 42 years after being sexually assaulted while working in a hospital has died, authorities said Monday. Aruna Shanbaug, 67, suffered severe brain damage when she was sodomized and strangled with a metal chain by a hospital worker in 1973. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Between life and death

The death of Aruna Shanbaug after 42 years in a comatose state brings into focus once again the issues of passive euthanasia, living wills, organ dona

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(FILES) This undated handout picture from India's Reliance Industries shows a general view of a refinery at Jamnagar, some 400kms west of Ahmedabad. India's largest private sector firm Reliance Industries said March 2, 2009, that it would buy out its subsidiary to create a crude refining giant in the country's biggest-ever merger. The share-swap with Reliance Petroleum will produce the world's sixth-biggest refiner and signal 'a significant step in our goal to be among the world's largest global corporations,' said Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani. The merger will unlock 'significant operational and financial synergies' between RIL and Reliance Petroleum and marks the country's biggest ever such amalgamation, RIL said in a statement. AFP PHOTO/HO/RELIANCE INDUSTRIES - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - GETTY OUT

Land conquests

With a compliant government in Gujarat, Reliance faced little hurdle in acquiring agricultural land for its Jamnagar SEZ, but its plan for a massive S

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Silent machines

Industrial workers are fighting to keep their jobs and make ends meet as prices rise in the neoliberal set-up.

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A verdict for Mumbai

The Bombay High Court's significant ruling on the sale of mill lands may give the city a reprieve from large-scale, unplanned development.

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A platform lost

The ONGC loses one of its most productive processing platforms in the offshore Mumbai High field in a devastating fire.

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For a new Mumbai, at great cost

The Rs.31,000-crore project for Mumbai has an admirable intention, to turn the metropolis into a liveable and efficient place, but the question being

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Winners and losers

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Tremors in the Shiv Sena

Open rebellion and leadership issues dent the image of the Shiv Sena as a cadre-based party with an unquestioned command structure.

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A tomb as target

The VHP's failed attempt to demolish the tomb of Mughal general Afzal Khan, an enemy of Chhatrapati Shivaji, is part of a larger Hindutva strategy tha

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Targeting journalists

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The divorce debate

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board's hesitation to curb the triple talaq system of divorce, apparently owing to pressure from certain sections of

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