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The Metamorphic Resistance: Mahmoud Darwish, Resilience (Sumud), and the Architecture of Survival
If you are not rain, my love,be a tree sated with fertility, be a tree.And if you are not a tree, my love, be stone saturated with humidity, be stone.And...
Rare moments of candour, when corporate India has spoken against a vindictive Modi regime
India’s all powerful home minister, Amit Shah, had to defend his govt’s policies, especially when it came to accusations of vendetta and intimidation being used by the regime to get at political foes. The man making these statements was influential industrialist, Rahul Bajaj, compelling Shah to respond, in Mumbai at the glittering summit called by the Economic Times on Saturday
Did NRC turn BJP’s electoral dreams to dust in Bengal?
Questions being raised after party’s humiliating defeat in bye elections.
A legacy of honesty and courage in public life: VP Singh
November 27, 2019 is his 10th death anniversary.
Engineers and graduates apply for gov’t sanitation worker jobs!
Engineers and graduates apply for gov’t sanitation worker jobs!
Uddhav Thackeray stops tree cutting at Aarey
Within a day of taking oath as the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray has ordered Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) to stop work on the Mumbai Metro car shed that was set to be constructed in the Aarey region of Goregaon, Mumbai.
Siddaramaiah and Kumaraswamy booked for sedition and defamation
The charges were levied with relation to their protests against the IT raids, allegedly by the BJP in March
Maha Vikas Aghadi demands employment for ‘locals’
Will this lead to a rebirth of Shiv Sena’s ‘Sons of the Soil’ movement?
In the wake of protests in NE, MHA calls meeting with stakeholders
There seems to be an eerie silence ever since the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, spoke “officially” in the Rajya Sabha about a nation-wide National Register of Citizens (NRC) and re-introduction of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). Thus, it appears that the proposed bill has not yet been finalised by the central government that seems perturbed by the agitation and protests that have engulfed the Northeastern states ever since winter session began.
Anti-CAB protests rock Assam, north east even as HM holds meetings with CMs in Delhi
Image Courtesy: EPSGuwahati, November 29, 2019: The proposed...
Sonbhadra: 1L of milk given to 81 students as part of their mid-day meal!
A primary school was allegedly caught giving adulterated milk to its students as part of their mid-day meal in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh. A video demonstrating the cook adding one litre of milk to a bucket of water went viral on social media this Tuesday, on November 26.
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