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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DADRI KILLING
In Uttar Pradesh’s infamous district of Dadri, the village of Bisara is roiling with anger. Seven months after the killing of Mohammad Akhlaq, a Sangharsh Samiti (a committee to fight) has been set up...
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INDIA’S MALARIA CURSE
(In part one of this series, A.C. Dhariwal, the NVBDCP’s director, accepts that the numbers are flawed but insists the program’s efforts are unharmed because the system accurately captures trends in...
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MOBILE DATA USAGE IN INDIA DOUBLES IN 3 YEARS
As more and more people start accessing the internet through their mobile phones, mobile data usage is increasing by the day. As per the latest available information with the government, mobile data...
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WINTER MAY BE RETURNING TO WESTEROS, BUT OUR NEXT ICE AGE IS ON HOLD
Note: this article is spoiler-free. The epic television series Game of Thrones makes compelling viewing for many reasons. Exotic locations and cutting edge visual effects have spectacularly translated...
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VIETNAM JAILS TWO JOURNALISTS FOR COVERING ECOLOGICAL DISASTER
Bangkok, May 4, 2015 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrest of two journalists amid a wider crackdown on dissent in Vietnam. Police on May 1 arrested Chu Manh Son, a reporter with...
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HOW TOBACCO INDUSTRY IS MISLEADING PEOPLE WITH ITS ADS
Major cigarette companies have stopped production since April 1, 2016 in response to a notification issued by Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The notification mandates increase in the...
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PAKISTANI HINDU REFUGEES ARE WAITING FOR INDIA TO ACCEPT THEM
Fourteen-year-old Dharampal is a fan of Heropanti star Tiger Shroff and he wants to become an engineer. There’s a serious roadblock that dream is facing though. “Our teachers say that the government...
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ALL ABOARD THE BOOZE EXPRESS
Even as “water trains” deliver succour to the parched in drought-stricken Marathwada and Bundelkhand, there’s a thirst of another kind in another part of India. It’s been one month since total...
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POVERTY LEVELS MAY RISE DUE TO SLOWDOWN IN CONSTRUCTION
The construction sector in India, which employed more than 44 million people at the end of 2010 (the last date for which official data are available), is witnessing a slowdown, affecting millions of...
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FROM GODMAN TO CORPORATE GURU: SRI SRI, BABA RAMDEV AND RAM RAHIM SINGH INSAAN
The saints are marching in, through your TV screens, and coming straight for your wallet. In February, Sirsa-based ‘spiritual leader’ Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh ‘Insaan’ (yes, he absolutely insists he is...
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SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH AT 90: THE MESMERISING STORYTELLER OF THE NATURAL WORLD
Sir David Attenborough is 90 years old. As a child in the 1970s and 1980s his series were my most eagerly-awaited TV programmes. At school my friends and I discussed Life on Earth and The Trials of...
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10 TIMES LIFE TOTALLY MADE YOU FEEL LIKE AN #URBANPOOR
Yesterday, an article on Buzzfeed introduced a new dimension to the concept of urban poverty. These are twenty-somethings who “spend a majority of their salaries on keeping up the lifestyles and...
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DEATH PENALTY REPORT: ON DEATH ROW, THEY DIE MANY DEATHS
“Who, by and large, are the men whom the gallows swallow? The white-collar criminals and the corporate criminals whose wilful economic and environmental crimes inflict mass deaths or who hire...
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NL HAFTA – EPISODE 66: FROM KARL MARX TO KANGANA
AgustaWestland’s VVIP choppers are flying inside parliament or perhaps they’re crashing? Is Kangana Ranaut a feminist icon? How seriously should you take trolls and is Rajdeep Sardesai giving them...
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ISLAMIST ZEALOTRY CHOKING LIBERTY IN BANGLADESH
Those in the media and among the intelligentsia outraging over the targeted killing of bloggers, writers, professors and activists, who were not necessarily atheists but avowedly secular, in...
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266 DISTRICTS, IN 11 STATES DECLARED DROUGHT AFFECTED
As per the information given by the government in the Rajya Sabha, 266 districts in 11 different states are declared drought affected in 2015-16. A total of 13497 crore rupees has been approved for...
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THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SELF-IMMOLATION AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Indian men are twice as likely as women to kill themselves, but of all the methods of suicide, self-immolation is the only one that claims more women than men, according to national crime data. In...
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KANGANA, ADHYAYAN, BARKHA AND RAHUL. A STORY OF THREE INTERVIEWS.
I spent last Friday night with the Holy Trinity – Shekhar Suman, Adhyayan Suman and Rahul Kanwal. Thankfully not in the flesh. On Friday night at 10pm, Rahul Kanwal conducted an exclusive 23-minute...
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