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THE POLITICS OF #BHARATMATAKIJAI: CAN YOU FORCE IT?
Full disclosure – The author is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party. An elected representative of the people of Mumbai’s Byculla Assembly constituency, member of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul...
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TWO POSSIBLE ENDS: PROF GN SAIBABA’S STORY
GN Saibaba is a professor of English at Delhi University. He’s also 90% disabled and has been imprisoned for over 17 months. He has been accused by the Maharashtra government of associating with the...
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NL HAFTA – EPISODE 59
Are there times in a marriage when ‘no’ doesn’t really mean ‘no’? Is the controversy over Bharat Mata exposing India’s ugly side? And what is going on with this Kangana Ranaut-Hrithik Roshan scandal?...
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE GOVERNMENT’S DECREASING ASSETS
The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBM) of 2003 and subsequent rules mandated the Central Government to disclose a statement of assets of the Central Government with every budget....
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HERE’S WHY ELECTRIC BUSES ARE A BETTER BET THAN DIESEL RUN BUSES
Electric buses generate 27% more revenue and 82% more profits than diesel buses per day, according to an Indian Institute of Science (IISc) study evaluating electric vehicles for urban transport. The...
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TURKEY’S CRACKDOWN CHRONICLES
Turkish prosecutors are preparing a case against media owner Aydın Doğan and his daughter, Hanzade Doğan Boyner, claiming they ran a fuel-smuggling ring, the pro-government daily newspaper Akşam said...
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MYANMAR JOURNALIST’S HOME BOMBED
Bangkok, March 16, 2016 – The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an independent, high-level investigation into the bombing of a journalist’s home in western Myanmar and for the perpetrators to...
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LOSERS ARE THE NEW WINNERS
It was the event that was supposed to mark a triumphant end to the IAS Week in Lucknow and it did. A “friendly” T20 match was held yesterday, at La Martiniere ground, between UP IAS Officers’...
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THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING GAY
An American gay man who had been on PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) has contracted HIV. For those not in the know, PrEP is a preventive mechanism that involves taking a tablet a day in order to reduce...
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NO CLEAN CHIT FROM NEERI FOR WORLD CULTURE FESTIVAL
When National Environmental Engineering Research Institute’s Dr Rakesh Kumar said to Firstpost that Art of Living’s World Culture Festival had not damaged the Yamuna or its floodplains, many minds...
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INDIA FACES WORST WATER CRISIS IN A DECADE
Water levels at 91 major reservoirs nationwide are the lowest in a decade–no more than 29%, according to the latest weekly bulletin of the Central Water Commission (CWC). As World Water Day is marked...
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WHY ARE INDIA’S GOVERNANCE FRONTLINES CASH STARVED?
Between 2010 and 2015, funding shortfalls to local governments nationwide—rural and urban—were as high as half the sanctioned amount and annual payments fluctuated extensively, with variations peaking...
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MORE THAN A CRORE PASSPORTS WERE ISSUED IN 2015
According to the Government data, a total of 1.05 crore passports were issued in 2015, up 24.3% from 84.72 lakh issued in 2014. In the states, number of passports issued in Uttar Pradesh more than...
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BRUSSELS ATTACKS: WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR
After twin terror attacks struck Brussels on Tuesday, killing at least 34 people and rattling the core of Europe, investigators are scrambling to piece together the plot behind the devastation. Here’s...
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COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS DEMANDS REPORTER’S RELEASE IN CHHATTISGARH
New York, March 22, 2016–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh to immediately release Prabhat Singh, a reporter for the Hindi daily...
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THE BURNING GIRL
In a month that was dominated by the controversies circling around Jawaharlal Nehru University, the news of a teenaged girl allegedly raped and burnt to death came and went without evoking much by way...
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VIETNAMESE BLOGGERS IMPRISONED FOR ‘ABUSING DEMOCRATIC FREEDOMS’
Bangkok, March 23, 2016 – The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns a Hanoi court’s sentencing today of two Vietnamese bloggers to prison terms on charges of “abusing democratic...
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THE GOVERNMENT EARNS BIG BUCKS FROM INDIAN HISTORY
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) manages 116 monuments in 19 different states. Revenue from entrance fee is collected by ASI and remitted to the consolidated fund of India. As per government...
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