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Targeting history

The National Council for Educational Research and Training decides to remove some history textbooks from the higher secondary curriculum, and this mov

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A saffron twist

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad's opposition to the Tehri dam on religious grounds sidesteps the real issues involved in the matter.

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Bloodbath in Kanpur

Kanpur witnesses arson and killings as some communal elements in the police and right-wing activists inflame passions and unleash violence.

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An oppressed lot

TEN years ago, when three women researchers from the National Commission for Women went to Kotra block of Udaipur district to study the revamped publi

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A shocking acquittal

Acquitting the accused in a major case of rape and murder, a Delhi court raps the investigators for their lapses.

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The fight for survival

Amid all the talk of environmental issues, planning priorities and relocation processes, the interests and concerns of the ordinary worker seem to rec

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Caution on two contraceptives

Women's groups and activists warn that two injectable contraceptives that will possibly be included in the national family planning programme may not

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In the name of the witch

Persecution and torture of women after denouncing them as witches no longer appears to be a tribal practice. Assertion by women in matters such as pol

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Sex selection and questions of law

A public interest petition filed in the Supreme Court draws attention to the loopholes in the law intended to prevent pre-natal sex determination and

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Concern in Haryana

AS the world reacted to the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Fiji's Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, the anguished voices of and

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Adding to the burden

Higher education in the country could become dearer from the coming academic year.

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Deprived of their due

A study highlights the flouting of the norms of reservation for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in appointments to institutions of highe

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