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Russian Airplane Crash: Terror In The Sky
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Russian Airplane Crash: Terror In The Sky

The I.S. claims responsibility for the crash of a Russian airplane with 224 people on board after it took off from Sharm el-Sheikh. Western and Russian investigations concluded that it was a terrorist act, but the Egyptian authorities dismissed this as propaganda. 

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December 11, 2015
Tardy Progress Of 'Swachh Bharat Mission'
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Tardy Progress Of 'Swachh Bharat Mission'

One year after the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission, it is clear that the mission is still a long way from meeting its targets and that its approach to the problems of providing sanitation are inadequate. 

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December 11, 2015
Narendra Modi's Blow-Hot-Blow-Cold Approach To Pakistan
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Narendra Modi's Blow-Hot-Blow-Cold Approach To Pakistan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise stopover at Lahore is of a piece with his government’s blow-hot-blow-cold approach to Pakistan.

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January 22, 2016
The UNSC resolution: A Chance For Peace
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The UNSC resolution: A Chance For Peace

The UNSC resolution on Syria takes into account the ground realities in the region, but Western leaders persist with their contradictory statements.

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January 22, 2016
Pathankot Attack: A Desperate Act
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Pathankot Attack: A Desperate Act

The terror attack on the Pathankot Indian Air Force base fails to deter India and Pakistan from continuing the dialogue process in right earnest. 

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February 5 2016
North Korea: Answering With Bombs
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North Korea: Answering With Bombs

North Korea’s latest claim of having tested a hydrogen bomb is partly a result of the politics of intimidation practised by the U.S. and South Korea.

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February 5 2016
Terror Dots On The Globe
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Terror Dots On The Globe

The deadly terrorist attack on the Bacha Khan University campus in Pakistan’s Peshawar closely follows three others in the same fortnight, in Istanbul, Jakarta and Ouagadougou. 

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February 19, 2016
In A Sea Of Hate
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In A Sea Of Hate

The fate of the Rohingya refugees in India hangs in the balance as the Narendra Modi government sees them as a threat to national security although police verification of refugees camping in Jammu has proved to the contrary.

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October 27, 2017
Tinderbox Petition
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Tinderbox Petition

The legal challenge to Article 35A, which protects the demographic composition of Jammu and Kashmir, has brought all sides of the political spectrum, barring the BJP, together. Tampering with it has the potential of setting the Valley ablaze once again.

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September 15, 2017
Breaking Point Of Kashmir
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Breaking Point Of Kashmir

The young people who throw stones in Kashmir know that it will not bring a solution but see it as the only option left to them to vent their frustration at the government’s “oppressive tactics”.

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May 26, 2017
Sticky Wicket
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Sticky Wicket

Successive electoral defeats have put the Aam Aadmi Party on unsure ground and given the BJP an edge in Delhi.

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May 26, 2017
Hall Of Shame
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Hall Of Shame

The way the Yogi Adityanath government has dealt with the Unnao rape case has caused a setback for itself and the BJP, which came to power in Uttar Pradesh promising, among others, improved law and order.

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May 11, 2018
Stillborn Scheme
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Stillborn Scheme

An audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India comes down heavily on the Haryana government for its lax implementation of the Beti Bachao scheme.

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May 11, 2018
A Spanner In The Works
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A Spanner In The Works

Hit hard by demonetisation and GST, micro, small and medium enterprises in Vadodara and Surat, the industrial hubs of Gujarat, are striving to make a comeback.

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November 24, 2017
Reverse Growth
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Reverse Growth

Demonetisation and GST have pushed back Kanpur, the second largest city in Uttar Pradesh and a leather industry centre, by ten years.

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November 24, 2017
Clean Sweep In Himachal Pradesh
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Clean Sweep In Himachal Pradesh

The BJP wrests power from the Congress in a keenly fought election marked by a few upsets.

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January 5, 2018
Long Road Ahead
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Long Road Ahead

With his formal elevation as Congress president, Rahul Gandhi now faces several challenges to lift his party from the doldrums. 

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January 5, 2018
Mayhem In Mandsaur
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Mayhem In Mandsaur

The Shivraj Singh Chouhan government remained complacent as resentment was building up among the farmers of Madhya Pradesh over the unremunerative prices of farm produce. Then came Mandsaur to wake it up.

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July 7, 2017
Bumper Problem
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Bumper Problem

With low market prices and little help from the government,Rajasthan’s farmers, especially garlic producers, are in a financial mess in a good crop year.

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July 7, 2017
Maharshtra Chief Minister Gives In
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Maharshtra Chief Minister Gives In

Maharashtra farmers drive a hard bargain, forcing the Devendra Fadnavis government to concede their demand for farm loan waiver.

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July 7, 2017
Scheme Sans Substance
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Scheme Sans Substance

The Yogi Adityanath government’s waiver plan, constrained by resource crunch, is a non-starter.

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July 7, 2017
The Strikes & The Echo
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The Strikes & The Echo

Tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in the subcontinent are escalating following India’s “surgical strikes” across the LoC in late September.

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October 28, 2016
Chief Minister in hospital
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Chief Minister in hospital

Speculation is rife about Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s health, and the secrecy surrounding it raises the issue of the right to privacy versus the public interest.

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October 28, 2016
matter of routine
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matter of routine

the killing of innocent civilians in fake encounters and branding them as foreign mercenaries has been going on in jammu and kashmir for close to 27 years in what is seen as an attempt to subjugate the local people.

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november 25, 2016
israel's isolation
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israel's isolation

in the first serious condemnation of israel by the international community in eight years, a u.n. security council resolution holds the establishment of jewish settlements in the occupied territories illegal.

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february 3, 2017
A Method In The Madness
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A Method In The Madness

There are similarities between the murders of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, M.M. Kalburgi and Gauri Lankesh that cannot be dismissed as merely coincidental.

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September 29, 2017
Murdering Scholarship
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Murdering Scholarship

Why was M.M. Kalburgi, a top-notch scholar who doggedly pursued the path of truthful research, assassinated two years ago? What, in his research, moved Hindutva bigots to mow him down? 

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September 29, 2017
Ruined livelihoods
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Ruined livelihoods

More than 80 per cent of India’s workforce is in the informal or unorganised sector and has taken the full brunt of the demonetisation move.

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December 9, 2016
Voting Out Democracy
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Voting Out Democracy

The military junta in Thailand gets yet another Constitution passed through a “referendum” which effectively prevents any single party from gaining a majority in Parliament. BY JOHN CHERIAN

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September 16, 2016
Acid Victims
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Acid Victims

A spurt in acid attacks against women has become a cause for concern in rural and urban West Bengal. BY Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay.

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September 16, 2016