Social scientist Khera discusses the media’s ‘propagandist coverage’ of Aadhaar, damage to the public distribution system and her faith in the Supreme Court The Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 13, extended the March 31 deadline for linking various services to UIDAI’s Aadhaar. A five-judge constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, is hearing a bunch of […]

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Telangana CM is being accused of launching not a third front but BJP’s second front When Members of Parliament of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) along with fellow lawmakers from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), did not allow the Lok Sabha to function for three days, it might have seemed like a […]

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It’s time for a reappraisal of the MEA’s public communication apparatus On July 10 last year, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared that Mosul, the country’s second largest city, has been recaptured from ISIS. In a way, it was a moment of Mosul’s liberation from the Islamic State. That, however, was too late for 39 […]

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The wife of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru says she had suspected her husband’s involvement A small cluster of houses stand hidden behind Gulnarg Park, Sopore. The last house, a quaint brick house, stands alone, overlooking a meadow. A quiet stream flows along the side and a metal bunker with security forces inside keep a […]

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Will the BJP and Congress please come clean on their association with CA’s India partner? Cambridge Analytica (CA) is in the eye of a storm after an undercover investigation caught some of its senior executives boasting about psychological manipulation, entrapment techniques and fake news campaigns in order to manipulate voters. Not only that, a Britain-based […]

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Professor Atul Johri has called himself ‘a victim of politics’ but the accounts of his sexually coloured remarks and inappropriate touches leave little room for doubt The campus of Delhi’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has been under the spotlight yet again, with a fresh wave of protests against School of Life Sciences’ professor Atul Johri. The […]

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Women students of Jamia Millia Islamia have scored a small victory over the administration. Students can now stay out till 10.30 pm and the administration has also agreed to other demands On Monday night, the university extended curfew timings for women residing in the college hostel from 8 pm to 10.30 pm — as well […]

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‘Be quiet and stand in a corner!’ the Centre seems to be telling those who want to be in the vicinity of Parliament to raise issues their MPs don’t care about Some say angrily that it is an “undeclared emergency,” a strangling of democracy. Others say it is an attempt to silence dissent, to “thwart […]

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