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Abdul Jabbar was shy of seeking funds. The advice by his friends to create a corpus (for which many of his well-wishers had expressed their eagerness to contribute) was always dismissed by him with cynicism

Remember when Mamata Banerjee had said, ‘I’m your paharadar, nobody can displace you from Bengal’? Well, her true intentions are now under the scanner as her government is in the process of building two detention camps, apparently for accommodating just 110 under trial foreign nationals.

If you ever believed in angels, this would certainly renew your belief. One of the many things that keep us going is that despite of all the evil, there is still some good in the world. One such good Samaritan, Dilip Das, the headmaster of a school in Tripura travelled all the way to Assam to submit documents that ultimately led to a woman being freed from the detention centre and being declared a citizen by a Foreigners Tribunal.

Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.comIt is over three months that the...

The government’s veiled efforts to completely clamp down human rights activists in India has now become quite apparent.

Deadlock over appointment of Hitesh Dev Sharma caused by his biased propaganda on social media

Win hearts, Mamata tells officials

It wrested the union from the Independents’s Consolidation

The Karnataka MLAs disqualification case recently adjudged by the Supreme Court reflected poorly on the political environment in our Country. Defection is an unhealthy practice and is a betrayal of the mandate of the voters. Here’s a look at why the judgment allowed the legislators to recontest and how was the disqualification upheld.

The JNU Executive Committee has also proposed a scheme to provide financial help to students from the Economically Weaker Sections