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Looking Forward to 79th Independence Day: Whither Democracy!
Our Independence was the huge achievement of people’s struggle against the British. The Independence struggle had the participation of people of all religions, castes, genders, languages and ethnicities. The...
GDP contracts by 7.3 percent in 2020-21, an all-time low in the last four decades!
While the fourth quarter of the year recorded a 1.6 percent growth, the overall fall has negatively influenced nearly every sector of the Indian economy
What do Ramdev and Adityanath have in common?
The two saffron clad men, will now be hailed as philosophers, their books will be included in philosophy syllabus at Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut
Abba, they took away Maa: CJP reunites a mother and her children in Assam
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Doyjan Bibi becomes the 40th person to be released from a Detention Camp on conditional bail with CJP’s help
A misguided attempt to revive Coal
How India can divert attention to other cleaner and sustainable energy sources to reduce dependence on the fossil fuel
WB Chief Secy retires, becomes Mamata Banerjee’s Chief Adviser
Another power move by the Bengal CM who recently crushed the BJP’s dreams of ruling Bengal by retaining power in her state via a landslide victory in the assembly elections
My goal is to save lives, not vaccines: Arvind Kejriwal
In trying to taunt Delhi CM Kejriwal’s constant SoS on shortage of the Covid vaccine, Haryana's ML Khattar said vaccines should be rationed, so stocks last longer
Wayanad citizens demand immediate end to draconian changes in Lakshadweep
In a letter to Prime Minister Modi, environmental group members remind him how the time-tested ways of the islanders that stand to be destroyed by new laws
First coconut trees painted saffron, now livelihood, culture threatened: Pinarayi Vijayan on Lakshadweep Admin
Kerala Assembly has unanimously passed a resolution demanding the urgent removal of new Lakshadweep administrator Praful Khoda Patel. The resolution was moved by Chief Minister of the state
Canada’s shame: Remains of 215 indigenous children unearthed at former residential school
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau orders flags on all federal buildings be flown at half mast, Kevin Annett’s memorandum details gritly details of torture
Untenable, unprecedented and unconstitutional: Mamata Banerji on WB Chief Secy’s transfer order
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