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TIRUCHI: TAMILNADU:-08/05/2015:- Anganwadi centre at Syed Murthusha school campus in Tiruchi. PHOTO: G_GNANAVELMURUGAN

Grim picture

A survey conducted by the Women and Child Development Ministry and UNICEF in 28 States and Delhi presents a dismal picture of crucial maternal and chi

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the launch of Digital India Week in New Delhi on Wednesday. PTI Photo by Manvender Vashist (PTI7_1_2015_000237A)

Growing resistance

The Narendra Modi government’s keenness to push through the Land Acquisition Bill faces stiff resistance from various organisations that have deposed

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Arson at Atali

The attack on the Muslim community at Atali, a village in Haryana, by a mob which included women gives the lie to the claim that minorities are safe

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JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, 03/06/2015: Injured survivors of the attack on Dalit families in Dangavas village (Nagaur district) being treated at JLN hospital, Ajmer. Seen in the picture is Khema Ram on whose legs a tractor was run over.
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Murder for land

In a land dispute that turned into caste violence, five members of a Dalit family are killed in Dangawas village in Rajasthan.

T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in Nagaur

NEW DELHI, 22/04/2015: A farmer, Gajendra Singh Rajput from Dausa Rajasthan, before committing suicide by hanging himself from a tree at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) anti-Land Bill rally at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on April 22, 2015.
Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

Killing neglect

Even as a group of political parties feels the NDA government is insensitive to the crop losses suffered by the farming community and is downplaying t

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A scene at a traditional toddy shop in Triprayar near Thrissur, in the southern Indian State of Kerala. Fresh toddy tapped in the morning hours is said to be a healthy drink.

No easy way out

Historical and anthropological evidence from the People of India project and other sources points to the existence of alcohol consumption in India fro

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CHENNAI, 16/10/2013: Union Rural Development Minister, Jairam Ramesh, interacts with partymen at Satyamurthi Bhavan, before addressing the media in Chennai on Wednesday.
Photo: S_S_Kumar

‘Go back to the 2013 law’

Interview with Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.

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The Ides of March

The BJP government is taken aback by the groundswell of opposition to the land ordinance.

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Activists of the Communists Party of India(CPI) burn an effigy representing the rapists of Delhi student, Nirbhaya during their protest in Hyderabad on March 6, 2015. An Indian court has banned the country's media from broadcasting a documentary in which one of the men who gang-raped and murdered a New Delhi student is shown blaming the victim, police said March 4. AFP PHOTO / Noah SEELAM

Words and deeds

The furore about the documentary film on the Delhi gang-rape draws attention to how inadequate the government’s measures are in dealing with crimes ag

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NEW DELHI, 24/02/2015: Farmers at a protest against changes in Land Acquisition Act on the second day, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on February 24, 2015.
Photo: S. Subramanium

Land Bill hits a wall

The NDA government’s amendments to the Land Acquisition Act of 2013 through an ordinance, widely seen as an anti-people intervention, meet with stiff

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Harishankar Brahma poses for the media as he takes charge as India's Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) in New Delhi on January 16, 2015. Former bureaucrat Harishankar Brahma took over as the Chief Election Commissioner after present CEC Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath retired on 15 January, 2015. A 1975 IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, Brahma (60), who hails from Assam, is a former Union power secretary. AFP PHOTO / PRAKASH SINGH

‘100 per cent peaceful’

Interview with Chief Election Commissioner H.S. Brahma.

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GURGAON, HARYANA, 16/01/2015: Press conference regarding the release of the movie- Messanger of God by Sant Gurmeet Ram Rahim, in Gurgaon on January 16, 2015.
Photo: Manoj Kumar

Problem message

The controversy surrounding the release of the film MSG: The Messenger of God, featuring Dera Sacha Sauda head Ram Rahim Singh, highlights the problem

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