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UP & Bihar: Tranches of arms & explosives recovered over the Diwali weekend

The seizure of 19,250 live cartridges from Koilawar police thane near the Kulhadiya Toll Plaza, Bihar over the weekend (Lokmat News, November 5) was connected to another serious incident...

A Farmer’s Budget but where is the Minimum Support Price?

The budget vowed to double farmer income by 2020,...

Arrogance Personified: MHRD Minister Smriti Irani forces AMU VC to Quit Delegation

  The arrogance and uncouth behaviour of minister for HRD...

Bhagwat, NaMo contact the Christian Indian diaspora in a damage control exercise

  Something big is afoot.The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) supremo...

The End of Impunity: Gujarat 2002

Photo Credit: Binita DesaiThe struggle of man (or woman)...

‘What is happening in India today is similar to the McCarthy era’: Partha Chatterjee

There is something ominously new in the manner in...

Vilification from the apolitical: The Dreyfus Affair and the case against JNU: Joyojeet Pal

Photo: Courtesy csuohio.eduThe notion that we are a different,...

ABVP: In the footsteps of Pakistan’s Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba; ominously so

The unfolding Modi-BJP-RSS-ABVP nexus in India is but a...

The Real Classroom: Outdoor Lectures Dissect Nationalism at JNU

JNU teachers create History with the sit in lectures...

Consolidated Solidarity Statements in Support of JNU

by Sunalini KumarWe are consolidating the statements received in...

Look Who’s Talking! Hate speech can’t be free speech, says Jaitley

  In Parliament on Thursday Union finance minister, Arun Jaitley...

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