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Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal leading the `Vishwas Yatra' taken out by the BJP as part of its election campaign in Himachal Pradesh.-

A rough ride for the BJP

The lack of unity in the opposition camp is likely to help the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party tide over the anti-incumbency factor in Himachal Pradesh.

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The big freeze

A cold wave takes a heavy toll of the poor in northern and central India, chiefly among those sections of the population already left vulnerable by ec

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End of a witch-hunt

The Home Ministry bureaucracy finally gives up an extended drive to implicate a journalist. The government now has much explaining to do on the matter

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The Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, Kul Gautam, presents the report at a press conference in Brussels on December 11, while Noella Simbi Banza, a 15-year-old girl from the Democratic Republic of Congo, looks on.-THIERRY CHARLIER/AP

Focus on the rights of children

THE priorities of children are not very different from those of adults; they require access to opportunities, redress of their economic situations, an

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The wife and the mother of a Dalit youth from Badshahpur village, who was lynched on October 15.-R.V.MOORTHY

A carnage and a clean chit

The commissions that inquired into the October 15 lynching of five Dalits at a police post in Jhajjar district of Haryana fail to go deep into the fac

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Young lives on the line

The death of over 50 children in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh owing to a mysterious disease brings into sharp focus the dismal condition of th

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Godman under a cloud

The Dera Sacha Sauda in Haryana and its head are under investigation in connection with the murder of a journalist and charges of sexual exploitation

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Targeting voluntary organisations

The changes proposed in the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, voluntary organisations fear, are aimed to hound them.

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A cloud over the MCI

Medical Council of India President Ketan Desai steps down after the Delhi High Court indicts him on charges of corruption.

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Crime capital

The rape of a medical student in Delhi, the latest in a series of crimes against women in the capital, highlights the need for a higher conviction rat

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Front against aggression

ANTI-WAR protests have been taking place the world over, the most recent one being in Italy where thousands of people gathered to denounce the shrill

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A grant and a controversy

THE four-day visit to India by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was marked by an unprecedented gesture of philanthropy, with a billionaire businessman an

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