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3,404 SIR Forms Found at Kharghar Xerox Shop: CJP, VFD and BCS demands answers from Maharashtra SEC

The discovery of original voter Enumeration Forms outside official custody, followed by the suspension of five BLOs, raises serious questions over the security and integrity of Maharashtra’s electoral-roll revision process; citizens groups demand a comprehensive inquiry

Why isn’t anyone trying to buy this MLA in Maharashtra ?

As everybody watches with bated breath the 'Game of Thrones' that modern day 'Chanakyas' and 'Renaissance men' play in public and applaud the complete lack of pretense that such naked ambition for power entails, one MLA is not interested.

India ranks first in child deaths under 5 years of age: UNICEF report

Despite multiple health schemes running in parallel and many of these focusing on primary health care of children, India is falling behind; it’s time to examine lacunae in implementation

Jharkhand Assembly elections: JVM (P) has highest candidates with criminal charges

BJP has most number of ‘crorepati’ candidates

Why fee hikes are the death of education in India

With private education costs skyrocketing, public universities are the only refuge the disempowered students of India have

TMC-BJP face off in crucial by-polls in Bengal

By-polls being held in three constituencies with substantial population of ‘migrants’

Suspected Bangladeshi sent to Bengal by Karnataka police without trial clueless about their future

Karnataka police picked up 61 people including 15 minors and 25, mostly rag pickers on suspicion of them being Bangladeshi. Without producing them to the court, they have sent them to West Bengal to hand them over to the border security forces, who in turn will hand to the Border Guards of Bangladesh. However of 61 individuals arrested, 59 have been sent to Bengal, while 2 have been kept back in Karnataka only

Seven Detainees of Bongaigaon District released from Goalpara Detention camp

GUWAHATI: A total of seven detainees from Bongaigaon District...

Brazenly defiant of SC, BJP President Ranjit Kumar Das calls for fresh NRC

GUWAHATI: Unmindful of the fact that his and his...

Electoral bonds: Why the BJP is batting so hard for it

Opposition parties stage walkout after the Lok Sabha Speaker refuses to allow fair discussion on sale of electoral bonds for state elections

Turmoil in the NE: The Naga Pact and its ramifications

The Naga Peace Pact, that is yet to be signed despite agreements in principle between Naga nationalists led by the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak Muivah faction) or NSCN (IM) and the Indian government, has been a source of a virtual heartburn for the Northeast of late.

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3,404 SIR Forms Found at Kharghar Xerox Shop: CJP, VFD and BCS demands answers from Maharashtra SEC

The discovery of original voter Enumeration Forms outside official custody, followed by the suspension of five BLOs, raises serious questions over the security and integrity of Maharashtra’s electoral-roll revision process; citizens groups demand a comprehensive inquiry

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Three associates of D Thankappan, Javed Anand, Roma and Teesta Setalvad pay their tributes to this man of action and intellect who was a leading light in India’s trade union movement. D Thankappan, ailing for some years, passed away early this morning, September 2, at his home in Airoli, New Bombay. He was 87.

Maharashtra’s schools are struggling to survive as students protest, infrastructure crumbles and Marathi-medium institutions disappear

From Adivasi students on hunger strike to Class 10 students demanding teachers, government schools without electricity and internet, and hundreds of schools facing the loss of grant-in-aid, Maharashtra’s education crisis is increasingly visible on the streets

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