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THE BLAND, BORING AND ROYAL LIFE OF WILL AND KATE
That a 93-year-old Parsee Anglophile is excited about the visit to India by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is understandable. After all Boman Kohinoor, proprietor of Britannia & Co., calls...
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THE IIT HIKE: DEBUNKING THE MYTHS
The Union government has given its nod to increase Indian Institutes of Technology’s tuition fee from Rs 90,000 per annum to Rs 2,00,000 per annum. Except for SC/ST students and certain others who...
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THE IIT HIKE: A BURDEN OF DEBT
Part I of The IIT Hike debunks myths about IIT salaries. Click here. Nearly 10,000 students are admitted into IITs every year. This means that 40,000 students of four-year courses are studying in the...
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ARE WE EATING OUR WAY TO CHRONIC DISEASES?
By choice or compulsion, Indians across age groups and income categories are falling short in meeting the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended daily intake of five servings of fruit and...
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MALDIVES GOVERNMENT CRACKS DOWN ON JOURNALISTS PROTESTING AGAINST...
New York, April 11, 2016–Maldivian prosecutors should drop charges against journalists and an executive from a pro-opposition television station, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The...
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PEARLS OF WISDOM FROM SWAROOPANAND SARASWATI MAHARAJ
Once upon a time, making an outlandish comment was an easy way to make news, but the stakes have been raised in recent times. Politicians and public figures are full of observations that are often...
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IS WAR IN OUR GENES?
The question of whether warfare is encoded in our genes, or appeared as a result of civilisation, has long fascinated anyone trying to get to grips with human society. Might a willingness to fight...
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ASSAM ELECTIONS: HOW NDTV GOT IT ALL WRONG
In the year 1808, a Scottish physician named Francis Hamilton was instructed by the Governor-General of Bengal to undertake a survey of the whole of the territories spanning the districts of Eastern...
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FIRE ACCIDENTS ARE CLAIMING LESS LIVES, SAYS NCRB
The National Crime Records Bureau Data indicates that a total of 113961 people lost their lives due to Fire Accidents from 2010 to 2014. This is an average of 62 deaths a day. Maharashtra alone...
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DELHI’S ROADS ARE THE NEW KILLING FIELDS
The viral video of a 32-year-old man, Siddharth Sharma, being mowed down by a Mercedes car driven by a teenager in Delhi has generated a lot of outrage, but Sharma is one of 71 Indians who die every...
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SYRIAN JOURNALIST SHOT DEAD IN TURKEY, ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY
New York, April 12, 2016–Syrian journalist Zaher al-Shurqat died today after being shot Sunday in the southern Turkish town of Gaziantep, according to news reports. The Islamic State group claimed...
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PANAMA PAPERS: WHY WE ARE LOOKING AT CORRUPTION THE WRONG WAY
Although the size and scale of the Panama Papers leak was shocking, the offshore dealing they revealed was hardly a surprise. After all, many organisations, including Transparency International,...
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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN NIT SRINAGAR
It was the seventh day of unrest at the National Institute of Technology, Srinagar. The presence of five paramilitary companies had turned the campus into a fortress. Journalists — most of whom have...
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CAN THE PANAMA LEAK USHER TAX REFORM IN INDIA?
It has been 10 days since the first set of stories from the data dump of Mossack Fonseca and the ensuing #Panama Papers started. Today the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...
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GURUGRAM GETS THE RAVISH KUMAR TREATMENT
Just what is NDTV’s Ravish Kumar eating for breakfast? Earlier today, on his Soundcloud channel, Kumar put up a new edition of what he calls Drerit Kavya. The objective of this particular brand of...
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GURUGRAM OR GURGAON?
On Tuesday evening, the Haryana government abruptly decided to change the name of the district of Gurgaon to Gurugram. According to the state government website, the city was earlier known as Guru...
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WHO KILLED SIDHARTH SHARMA?
On April 4, businessman Manoj Aggarwal’s son was four days short of his 18th birthday when he rammed his father’s Mercedes into 32-year-old Siddharth Sharma, at a speed of approximately 100kmph, said...
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REMEMBERING AMBEDKAR: THE TRIALS OF AN ‘UNTOUCHABLE’ BOY
Science and scripture — both have it in them to not only alter the world, but also to destroy it. In 1891 were born two men who understood this perfectly and who discovered, through life’s journey,...
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ON AMBEDKAR’S BIRTHDAY, FOR DALIT WOMEN, A STEP AHEAD, A STEP BACK
The literacy rate among Dalit women has increased by 14.6 percentage points–which is more than the increase for women in the general population (10 percentage points)–from 2001 to 2011, according to...
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DEMOCRACY REPORT CARD: MORE VOTERS, MORE POLITICAL PARTIES
India has had 16 general elections to the Lok Sabha so far. The number of eligible voters went up from 17.3 crore in 1951 to 83.40 crore in 2014. While only 53 political parties contested the election...
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