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WE ASK #ASKCHETAN
We all know that Twitter loves Chetan Bhagat a bit too much for anyone’s comfort. This time, Twitter, you took it to a whole new dimension. Transcending the notion of time, #AskChetan is so much more...
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NOTICES TO ABP, NDTV AND INDIA TODAY FOR QUESTIONING MEMON JUDGEMENT. DID...
What we know: On August 8, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry hit out at three news channels because it claims they violated three clauses of the Cable Television Network Rules, 1994 with their...
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SUNDAR PICHAI: MEET GOOGLE’S NEW CEO
A slimmed-down Google is now the largest subsidiary of a new parent company called Alphabet. Page is the new CEO of Alphabet, with co-founder Sergey Brin as the President. In 2004, Pichai joined...
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INDIA’S UNRELENTING MORAL BRIGADE
Is there an unrelenting moral brigade in India and is our society fundamentally riddled with prejudices that we are unable to overcome? Is there an evil manifestation of the law that we should be...
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NITI PALTA RATES HERSELF ON OUR LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVE SCALE
In a country like India, where taking offence is a national pastime, how political can the comic scene be? Is it okay to make jokes on politicians and their politics, or is everyone too scared of Jaya...
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MAKING INDIA AWESOME: CHETAN BHAGAT HAS A PLAN, OR AT LEAST A NEW BOOK
Hardly a day passes when I don’t hear someone whining about the quality of Chetan Bhagat’s writing. Some of these people occasionally read his books and columns, most don’t. The truth is also that...
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NRIS IN SAUDI, KUWAIT 10 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DIE THAN THOSE IN US
Philip Lange / Shutterstock.com An Indian living in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait is at ten times the risk of death, compared to an Indian living in the US, an IndiaSpend analysis has revealed. More than 7...
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WHY HAS NORTH KOREA THREATENED WAR – AGAIN?
The dramatic escalation of the simmering tensions between North Korea and South Korea has both U.S. and China expressing concern. North Korea has set a 5 p.m. local deadline, or 4:30 a.m. EDT, to put...
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INDIA-PAKISTAN DIALOGUE: LITTLE PROGRESS SINCE 2012
Image credit: Shutterstock The National Security Advisor (NSA) level talks between India & Pakistan were supposed to take forward the discussions held in Ufa (Russia). The proposed NSA level...
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COMING SOON: GLOBAL SUMMITS: WHERE ARE WE GOING?
We present a new fortnightly podcast series in collaboration with Biraj Swain, for this project. “Global Summits: Where are we going?”, is a podcast series that will cut through the jargon and break...
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REPORTING ON SILICON VALLEY WHEN IT IS (OR COULD BE) YOUR BOSS
The New York Times exposé on Amazon, which reveals the sickeningly pressure-cooker environment at the online retailer, has set a number of pigeons aflutter. There is the company at the heart of the...
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ESSAR SUES THE CARAVAN FOR RS 250 CRORE FOR ITS LATEST COVER STORY AND IT’S...
On July 10, 2015, Vantage, the web-exclusive section of The Caravan magazine, carried a piece by staff writer Krishn Kaushik. Based on in-house email leaks of the Essar group, which showed how the...
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BJP GOVERNMENT TOES THE CONGRESS LINE, SAYS POLITICAL PARTIES CANNOT BE...
The issue of political parties coming under the ambit of Right to Information Act was in the news again after the Supreme Court issued notices to the six national parties to explain their stand. The...
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‘WHEN THE DISH BOX KNOCKED DOWN THE ANTENNA’: A STUDY ON WHAT’S HURTING...
India amended the Cable Television Act in 2011 with the intention to move from analog to digital systems. Dishes were to replace the antenna. It was a phased process — with the metros leading the...
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PROPORTION OF HINDUS DOWN 3.7 PER CENT POINT OVER 50 YEARS
Radiokafka / Shutterstock.com The proportion of Hindu population in the country declined marginally to 79.8% at the end of 2011, according to Census data released recently, from 80.5% at the end of...
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JOURNALISM: A MOST DEADLY PROFESSION
This statement was originally published on pen.org on 20 August 2015. On July 31, Ruben Espinosa was found bound, tortured, and killed in Mexico City. Espinosa, a seasoned photojournalist who captured...
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ONE PART SLUT-SHAMING, TWO PARTS MORAL POLICING AND YOU GET YOUR ASSAMESE TV...
Sometime in July, a recently-launched Assamese news channel, Pratidin Time, aired a news feature about clothes. It complained that young Assamese women were just not wearing enough clothes. The...
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INDIA’S POPULATION BY RELIGION AS PER CENSUS 2011
The Government released the 2011 Census data by religion a few days ago. Here is an infographic capturing that data. Leading the pack are Himachal Pradesh with 95% Hindus, Jammu & Kashmir with...
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