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Dissent rooted in cultural context

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  • 2022-01-16 --

An excerpt from India’s Undeclared Emergency: Constitution and the Politics of Resistance.

By Arvind Narrain

One of the challenges that contemporary activism face Read more...

Should drug use be legalised?

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  • 2022-01-16 --

Dr Harshit Kukreja, research analyst

Forty years after criminalization of drugs, we are no closer to solving the drug crisis. According a 2019 report by the Government of India, about 2.8 Read more...

Biden team regroups after court setback on COVID campaign

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  • 2022-01-16 --

Washington: Concerned but not giving up, President Joe Biden is anxiously pushing ahead to prod people to get COVID-19 shots after the Supreme Court put a halt to the administration’s sweepin Read more...

Won’t allow any change on India’s border: Army Chief

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  • 2022-01-16 --

New Delhi: The Indian Army’s message is clear that it will not let any attempt to unilaterally change the status quo along the country’s borders succeed, Army Chief Gen M M Naravane sai Read more...

HDFC Bank net profit rises 18 pc in 3rd quarter

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  • 2022-01-16 --

New Delhi: The country’s largest private sector lender HDFC Bank on Saturday reported an 18.1 per cent rise in its standalone net profit at Rs 10,342.20 crore for the third quarter ended Dece Read more...

Kerala to appeal against Bishop Mulakkal’s acquittal in rape case

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  • 2022-01-16 --

Kottayam (Kerala): A day after a Sessions Court here acquitted Roman Catholic Bishop Franco Mulakkal of the charge of raping a nun in a convent in the State, Kerala police on Saturday sought legal Read more...

High profile exodus: Ominous signs for BJP in poll-bound UP

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  • 2022-01-16 --

The tide is slowly but steadily turning in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh where the ruling BJP is fighting to retain its ministers and MLAs many of whom have quit claiming they felt neglected by the Read more...

Lanka jumbos dying from eating plastic

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  • 2022-01-16 --

Pallakkadu (Sri Lanka): Conservationists and veterinarians are warning that plastic waste in an open landfill in eastern Sri Lanka is killing elephants in the region, after two more were found dead Read more...

Pak welcomes UN appeal for Afghan aid: Imran

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  • 2022-01-16 --

Islamabad: Pakistan is committed to providing all possible support to avert a major humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan said, even as he welcomed United Nations’ app Read more...

'All aspects related to Bengal train accident will be probed'

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  • 2022-01-16 --

Jalpaiguri/Kolkata: Railway Board Chairman V K Tripathi Saturday inspected the site where the Bikaner-Guwahati Express had derailed in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district and said all aspects r Read more...

‘Arrested Cong activists have no role in SFI worker’s murder’

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  • 2022-01-16 --

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee chief K Sudhakaran on Saturday continued to criticise the ruling CPM over the recent killing of Dheeraj Rajendran, an activist of its student w Read more...

Wild child of poetry

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  • 2022-01-16 --

Spoken poetry is an expression of your thoughts in the vehicle of dramatised verse.

Rachana Ramesh

A new form of poetry has taken the podium. With anger suffusing her v Read more...