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The scene of the blast at the dargah in Ajmer.-COURTESY: RAJASTHAN PATRIKA

Easy target

The Muslim community feels vindicated as fresh arrests in bomb blast cases reveal the involvement of Hindu right-wing groups too.

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Digvijay Singh: Banning an organisation is no solution.-V.V. KRISHNAN

BJP and RSS must come clean'

Interview with Digvijay Singh, Congress general secretary.

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With no safety net

Those hit the hardest by the price rise are workers in the unorganised sector.

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Death for love

Lack of governmental action to stop honour killings comes up for criticism even as the crime continues unabated.

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A MOTHER FEEDING her malnourished child at a nutritional rehabilitation centre in Sheopur district, Madhya Pradesh. Malnutrition and anaemia are recognised as major health problems among women and children in India.-REINHARD KRAUSE/REUTERS

Cash for mothers

ALTHOUGH a Maternity Benefit Act has been in existence for over five decades, the vast majority of Indian women do not get any maternity entitlements

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Kirti Singh: 'The Bill is badly drafted.'-S. ARNEJA

Bill not comprehensive'

THE draft Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2010, or Sexual Assault Bill, of the Union Home Ministry, which is under discussion, owes its genesis to the

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An AIDWA rally in Hyderabad demanding justice to a woman who was allegedly raped by her father-inlaw. A file picture.-MOHAMMED YOUSUF

Defining assault

THE draft Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2010, which seeks to amend the law in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) pertaining to rape and sexual assault, has

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A boy ploughs a field at Araku in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh. The bulk of boys engaged in labour is in the agriculture sector.-K.R. DEEPAK

Soft battles

The effects of the present global economic and financial crisis, rather than its causes, have been the central preoccupation of organisations such as

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Devendra Gupta (left) and Chandrashekhar, accused in the Ajmer shrine blast case, being produced in a court in Ajmer on May 1.-PTI

Hindutva hand

ON May 1, reviving memories of a long-forgotten terror attack, the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) came up with a surprising revelation by arrest

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Naveen Jindal. Underpressure, the young Congress Member of Parliament from Kurukshetra made certain pronouncements that indirectly supported the demands of the khap panchayats, but the party has described his opinions as personal.-SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY

Outside the law

ON May 9, Naveen Jindal, the young and highly educated Member of Parliament from Kurukshetra in Haryana, was in a dilemma over having to take a stand

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Reign of terror

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Less than normal

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