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A demonstrator shouts slogans and waves the Indian national flag as she takes part in a protest demanding the release of Kanhaiya Kumar, a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student union leader accused of sedition, in New Delhi, India, February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee

In defence of JNU

The crackdown on Jawaharlal Nehru University and the aggressive campaign with focus on its “anti-national character” is part of a Sangh Parivar plan t

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NEW DELHI, 22/02/2016: Anant Prakash Narayan, student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), one of the five students wanted by the police, at JNU in Delhi on February 22, 2016.aa__Photo: Shanker Chakravarty

Profiles, real and concocted

Coming mostly from impoverished backgrounds and marginalised communities, the implicated JNU students have one other thing in common: passion to uphol

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NEW DELHI, 14/02/2016: Bikramaditya Choudhary (left), the secretary of the JNU Teachers' Association and Ajay Kumar Patnaik, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University addressing a press conference before starting a human chain and protest against arrest of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar at JNU campus in New Delhi on February 14, 2016. _Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

‘JNU administration making deplorable statements’

Interview with Bikramaditya K. Choudhary, Secretary, JNUTA.

NEW DELHI, 02/02/2016: LGBT community celebrating the Supreme Court's order on Section 377, in New Delhi on February 02, 2016.
Photo: Sandeep Saxena

Renewed hope

The Supreme Court’s decision to refer the curative petitions against its 2013 verdict re-criminalising consensual sex between two adults in private to

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NEW DELHI, 24/03/2014: For Vijetha's story: Sandeep Kumar Singh of the ABVP in JNU campaigning for BJP in New Delhi 2014. Photo: Meeta Ahlawat

Personnel matters

The appointment of the new Vice Chancellor for Jawaharlal Nehru University is the latest in the BJP’s attempts to push its saffron agenda in academic

Notes from the street

Balaknama, a tabloid run by street children in New Delhi, tells stories of their world in their words, empowering and transforming the lives of thousa

A miner stands at the Gevra coalmines in Chhattisgarh, India, in this November 21, 2009 file photo. India is getting ready to open up commercial coal mining to private companies for the first time in four decades, with the aim of shifting the world's third-biggest coal importer towards energy self-sufficiency. To match INDIA-COAL/ REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/Files

Coal matters

Coal India plays a key role in securing the country’s energy needs, but the government is neither taking any step to support it nor addressing the iss

MADURAI, TAMILNADU, 02/12/2014: A view of Juvenile Justice Board building at Kamaraj Salai in Madurai.
Photo: S. James

Data in doubt

The NCRB data used to justify the new law bringing down the age of responsibility for criminal action are open to interpretation.

Unequal justice

Members of a Dalit family in Dankaur in Uttar Pradesh are jailed for stripping themselves in public to draw attention to the fact that their land was

DIVYA TRIVEDI IN DANKAUR

‘We need other forms of punishment’

Interview with Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament.

‘We have launched key safety initiatives’

Interview with Sanil Bhatia, general manager, Uber, Pune.

Moving on apps

Online taxi aggregators have many takers in the country despite the ambiguity over regulation of such services and a ban on them in Delhi. But is Ind