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NEW DELHI, 22/02/2017: Members of AISA and non-political affiliated students of campuses from across Delhi protest against ABVP at Ramjas College which turned violent and police resorted to lathi charge, in Delhi University on Wednesday.
Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

Under siege

The ABVP rampage at Delhi University’s Ramjas College over a seminar leaves teachers and students brutalised and traumatised, but resistance to intimi

‘No truck with the BJP’

Interview with BSP spokesperson Sudhindra Bhadoria.

Sultanpur : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav addressing an election rally in Sultanpur on Tuesday. PTI Photo (PTI1_24_2017_000114B)

Tall claims, latent fears

As Uttar Pradesh goes into campaign mode, confusion prevails on the ground even as leaders of all major parties exude confidence.

VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN,DIVYA TRIVEDI

Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2017, in Gandhinagar, Gujarat on Tuesday. PTI Photo (PTI1_10_2017_000275a)

The show limps on

The Vibrant Gujarat summit, now in its eighth edition, has had little to show in terms of actual investments by or investment intentions of internatio

Peddling myths

Most mainstream media organisations capitulated to power and began to crawl even before they were asked to bend. There are a few exceptions though, wh

NEW DELHI, 13/07/2016: AISA, AIPWA, ANHAD, AICCTU and other organisations participating in a silence protest march at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Wednesday. They demand to stop killing civilians in Kashmir. Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

A witch-hunt

Civil society organisations that question the government or Modi face intimidation and harassment at the hands of officials.

NEW DELHI, 14/12/2016: Missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmad's mother, Fatima Nafees, with JNU students during a protest march for justice to her son at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar.

Where is Najeeb?

More than two months after Najeeb disappeared from JNU following an attack on him by ABVP supporters, neither the police nor the university authoritie

Tea garden workers gather to weigh tea leaves after plucking them at a tea estate in Nagaon district, in the northeastern state of Assam, India, November 2, 2016. REUTERS/Anuwar Hazarika TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Corporate neglect

A World Bank report chastises IFC and APPL for failing to improve the conditions in the tea estates of Assam, confirming long-standing complaints by w

A bank employee checks a discontinued currency note while working at a currency exchange counter at a bank in Gauhati, India, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016. People queued up outside banks for the second day to exchange currency notes after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, delivering one of India's biggest-ever economic upsets, declared that the bulk of Indian currency notes no longer held any value and asked anyone holding those bills to take them to banks to deposit or exchange them. (AP Photo/ Anupam Nath)

Bank staff at breaking point

Employees in nationalised banks were often mocked for their slow pace of work and long lunch breaks. Until the midnight of November 8 when demonetisat

Nailing a lie

The Central Bureau of Investigation’s reports pin the 2011 violence in Dantewada on the police and other security forces.

Kolkata: Muslim protesters hold placards at a protest against killing of 8 SIMI terrorists in an encounter, in Kolkata on Friday. PTI Photo by Ashok Bhaumik (PTI11_4_2016_000102B)

Systemic bias

NCRB data and other reports indicate how the most marginalised sections are also the most criminalised.

HYDERABAD: TELANGANA: 26/08/2016: Rally and Dharna by the Hijra and Transgender community against the transgender persons(Protection of Rights) bill,2016, in Hyderabad on Friday. Photo: G. Ramakrishna

A flawed Bill

The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill faces opposition as it fails to address the concerns of the community adequately.