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FOR INDIA’S FARMERS, HARDER LIFE AHEAD: LATEST STUDIES
The unseasonal rain and erratic weather unsettling the Indian farmer—and the nation’s agriculture, economy and politics—are no aberrations. Extreme rainfall events in central India, the core of the...
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MASSIVE FCRA CANCELLATION IS NOT A NEW THING. 4138 NGOS LOST THEIR FCRA...
In an order dated 06th April, 2015, the Union Home Ministry cancelled the FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) certificate of 8975 organizations (NGOs) for violating Section 18 of the FCRA act....
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RIGHT WING ON TWITTER HITS A NEW LOW WITH #SOULVULTURES
The problem with being a propagandist is that you have to often give up on logic to make sure you are not ceding ground to the other side. It is, in fact, an interesting psychological phenomenon: how...
View ArticleNEWSLAUNDRY HAFTA – EPISODE 13
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WHY THE INDIAN MEDIA SHOULD LEARN FROM ABC’S BRUCE JENNER INTERVIEW
“I’m a woman.” Bruce Jenner, former track star and Olympic gold medallist, revealed this long-kept secret in an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer late last week. “I was not genetically born that...
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TIMES NOW DROPS A PRIME-TIME DEBATE ON BCCI
Last Monday, April 27, Times Now carried promos of what was to be a prime-time debate on the ongoing battle between the two camps in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Called “The War...
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THOUSANDS OF BIBLES REACH NEPAL AND SATIRE MAKES IT TO NEWS
If you are here reading this, there is not a chance in hell that you haven’t read the story over hundred thousand Gideon bibles being shipped to Nepal. “Nepal quake: Missionaries send bibles as relief...
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IS LAND ACQUISITION THE PRIME REASON FOR STALLING OF PROJECTS? DATA SAYS ‘NO’
The amendments to the Land Acquisition act (Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act) are being touted by many in the Government as a game...
View ArticleFILMMAKER & COLUMNIST PAROMITA VOHRA ON FEMINISM TODAY
The fate of women in India is a lot like the country itself, a mass of contradictions where every condition and its opposite can be equally, unequivocally true. The brutal rape and murder of Delhi...
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SMARTPHONE USE SOARS, SO DO SMUT-SHARING CRIMES
New Delhi: Early this week, the Mumbai police registered a case against “unknown persons” for leaking a nude clip of actor Radhika Apte. Part of a 20-minute film directed by Anurag Kashyap, the clip...
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RELENTLESS QUESTIONING BY SOME REPORTERS AND ANCHORS LEFT MEGHA SINGH...
By now the image of Aam Admi Party (AAP) leader Ashutosh bawling for a good 10 minutes while apologising to farmer Gajendra Singh’s daughter on live television has gone “viral”. What is not known,...
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HERVé FALCIANI’S OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI
Hervé Falciani is a French-Italian whistle-blower who handed over information on over 100,000 HSBC account to French authorities now known as the HSBC leaks. He is a former employee of HSBC Private...
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THE OH CAPTION! MY CAPTION! CONTEST #15
Fill in the blanks and be part of a Clothesline gag. Enter our photo dialogue contest and you (and your winning dialogue) could be featured in next week’s Clothesline. You wring ‘em clean, and we’ll...
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ZEE NEWS VERSUS KUMAR VISHWAS
The alleged suicide at the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) farmer rally at Jantar Mantar and the ensuing drama – all of which played out on national television news with much histrionics – has brought forth...
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ABU BAKR-AL BAGHDADI: DEAD OR ALIVE?
Around 2000 years ago, a man who preached religion against the establishment resurrected within three days of being dead. He was Jesus Christ. Who knew, centuries later, a perceived anti-Christ would...
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90% OF INDIAN COPS WORK FOR MORE THAN 8 HOURS A DAY
According to a study by the Bureau of Police Research & Development, Government of India, 90% of the Police Staff currently work for more than 8 hours a day. 68% of Officers report that their...
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MODI WIELDS SOFT POWER TO BEFRIEND CHINESE
Ahead of his visit to China—from May 14 to 16—India’s social-media friendly Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined the Chinese social media platform Weibo to connect with Chinese citizens....
View ArticleKNOCK KNOCK: SHOULD JUVENILES BE TRIED AS ADULTS FOR HEINOUS CRIMES?
The Union government has proposed a major change to India’s Juvenile Justice Act 2000. It wants 16 to 18 year olds charged with committing heinous crimes, to be tried as adults, following the...
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