Reacting to traders holding the city to ransom while protesting against the recent sealing drive, the apex court observed, “Is there a rule of law?”   There’s great inertia in Delhi to implement reforms. Some hidden forces seem to guide the government. The multiplicity of agencies, the three tiers of government, have recently been at […]

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Sandbags, bunkers and overwhelming presence of armed constabulary gives the impressing that Delhi’s a police state. But it’s not easy to secure a city of Delhi’s proportions and complexities A denizen of Delhi, irrespective of his or her social status, cannot miss one fundamental fact of existence: the ominous presence of security forces with guns […]

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At 82, Anna Hazare is still espousing a variety of causes, though without the massive popular support he had seven years ago. Considering his deteriorating health, this fast for farmers’ rights may be his last   Around two in the noon, on Wednesday, teachers and students from Delhi University were marching towards Parliament Street protesting […]

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The internet has transformed life, and politics is no exception. Bypassing the media, top politicians are using social networking sites to good effect Social media is in the news for all the wrong reasons. The government has issued a notice to Cambridge Analytica — the company accused of Facebook users’ data breach — demanding a […]

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How much is too much treatment? Sometimes you have to decide for yourself, based on what you’ve read or the experiences of other patients More people are killed by chemotherapy than by cancer, says a recent news report. Well, it may be a typical media simplification of a carefully worded scientific report. But it is […]

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India is among the nations which have a less reliable digital environment and which are the biggest growth opportunities for digital players The latest shoe has dropped on Facebook: Private data on 50 million users found its way to a shadowy research outfit, Global Science Research, and then on to Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm launched […]

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The very controversial beauty pageant Miss Tibet has been held since 2002 in McLeodganj. While it has been criticized for being “un-Tibetan”, and well, like other pageants, a platform to objectify women, it has been symbolic of rebellion by the Tibetans who fled their land. The Chinese government sees the pageant as an irritant, and […]

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As the 60th anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s crossing into India approaches, an interview with Sonam Dagpo, official spokesperson of the Central Tibetan Administration March 31 of this year marks 60 years since the Dalai Lama stepped into Indian territory, along with thousands of Tibetan refugees. While New Delhi was supposed to play host to […]

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