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Playing the religious card

The Ashok Gehlot Cabinet's decision on the manner of handling investigations into certain types of charges against religious leaders faces protests fr

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Under a cloud

The Chairman and Managing Director of Coal India Limited is suspended for allegedly abusing his official position, but does not the rot run deeper?

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Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.-GOPAL SUNGER

Gehlot's gambit

The 14 per cent job reservation announced by the Rajasthan Chief Minister stumps the Opposition BJP in an election year and sets off a national debate

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A failure of will

The Women's Reservation Bill falls through despite months of active campaigning by women's groups, primarily because of the lack of political will on

T. K. RAJALAKSHMI in New Delhi

Spotlighting hunger

A convention of working-class and peasant women organised in New Delhi by AIDWA calls upon the Central government to ensure food security and employme

T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in New Delhi

Widening fissures

As a sign of the deepening ideological fault lines within the ICHR, controversy surrounds the grant of a fellowship.

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Baran's call

THE hamlets in Uni village in Kishanganj block of Baran district could be said to personify hunger. The men, women and children, even the cattle, look

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From bad to worse in Rajasthan

It could well turn out to be a drought crisis that is the worst in a century for this desert State. The State government is trying to do its bit, but

T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in Bikaner, Kota and Baran

Stopping Togadia

The arrest of Praveen Togadia has temporarily halted the VHP's provocative trishul distribution campaign in Rajasthan, but will the Congress(I) govern

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At a polling station in Deoridhat, near Shimla.-RAFIQ MAQBOOL/AP

A negative vote

Corruption, inflation and unemployment under BJP rule make the voters of Himachal Pradesh decide in favour of the Congress(I).

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A campaign without content

In Himachal Pradesh, the Congress(I) and the Bharatiya Janata Party focussed mainly on non-issues, pushing the real economic issues to the background.

T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in Mandi and Kangra

Tough going in Himachal

Both the Congress(I) and the BJP, the major players, face extreme pulls and pressures within, in the process of ticket distribution. And Sukh Ram's Hi

T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in Shimla and Theog