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Government representatives and Gujjar leaders before the start of the talks in Jaipur on June 13.-PTI

Stir and standoff

The Gujjar agitation is a challenge to the BJP government in an election year.

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Raging resentment

Gujjars continue with their agitation as the government shows no sign of conceding their demand.

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Brinda Karat is a member of the CPI(M) Polit Bureau.-K. GOPINATHAN

We have crossed the first hurdle

Interview with Brinda Karat, vice-president of the All India Democratic Womens Association.

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Bill of bias

The Vasundhara Raje government has pushed through a Bill to prevent religious conversions, with the Assembly elections in mind.

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Students of Patna University celebrating the Supreme Courts verdict, on April 10.-RANJEET KUMAR

For and against, with reservations

The Supreme Courts order finds acceptance among sections that are for and against reservation.

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IN SIMILIPAL, ORISSA. Would the promotion of complementary baby foods help impoverished mothers and malnourished children?-

The food question

Moves to float a corporate alliance to promote complementary baby food evoke protests.

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PROFESSOR UTSA PATNAIK does not agree with the poverty estimates of the government.-T.K. RAJALAKSHMI

No mechanism to protect the poor

Interview with Utsa Patnaik, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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Testing times

The Central Research Institute in Kasauli faces an uncertain future after its licence to produce vaccines is suspended.

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Justice A.R. Lakshmanan (right), Chairman of the Law Commission, submitting a copy of the report to Union Law Minister Hansraj Bharadwaj.-VIJAY VERMA/PTI

Child redefined

The 18th Law Commission, in its report, addresses the lacunae in the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.

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Crying wolf

ABVP activists protest against the inclusion of an essay on different tellings of the Ramayana in Delhi University syllabus.

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Kirori Singh Bainsla, president of the Gujjar Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti.-PTI

Passing the buck

Gujjars are unhappy with the Chopra Committees report, and the State government passes their demand for S.T. status to the Centre.

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The BJP's chief ministerial candidate Prem Kumar Dhumal (right) and its central leader in charge of the State unit Satpal Jain in Shimla, after the victory in the elections.-PTI

No-surprise win

The BJP victory has more to do with an overall disaffection with the State government than the politics of the Central government.

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