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The increasing resort to exceptional laws is corroding India’s justice system
Once invoked, bail becomes harder, trials become longer and the burden of proof is reversed. The special law procedure ...
Delhi: Ban on fuel for ‘end-of-life’ vehicles deferred till November 1
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said the government will use the time to work collaboratively toward a long-term and practical ...
A new book studies the ideologies and functioning of the RSS’s tribal wing, Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram
The formation of the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram happened over concerns regarding the increasing activities of Christian ...
‘Confused product of a confused brain’: When Guru Dutt cast a spell over everyone – except one man
On the actor-director’s birth centenary, a flashback to his inability to impress the acerbic critic Baburao Patel.
Assam: Homes of 1,400 Bengali-origin Muslim families bulldozed in Dhubri eviction drive
These are erosion-hit people who lost their ancestral homes due to the Brahmaputra,’ said an affected resident.
Why China is searching for the next generation of ‘heroes’
The aim is to unite and mobilise the nation in what Chinese leadership see as the crucial final phase in the quest to become ...
Kerala nurse on death row in Yemen to be executed on July 16
The government of India can intervene in the matter to save her life,’ a negotiator in the case was quoted as saying by ‘The ...
‘How to Lose Your Mother’: Molly Jong-Fast’s sizzling memoir of her ‘always performing’ mother Erica
Lessing’s caretaking of the teenage Diski took place during the height of British and American feminism’s rejection of the ...
Rush Hour: X says India ordered blocking of Reuters handles, Bihar alters women’s quota rules & more
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Muslim residents forced to flee Pune villages after boycott calls, allege rights groups
The People’s Union for Civil Liberties and Association for Protection of Civil Rights urged authorities to act against those ...
Bihar: Accused in businessman Gopal Khemka’s murder killed during gunfight with police
An accused in the murder of businessman Gopal Khemka was killed in a gunfight with police in Bihar’s Patna on Monday night, ...
‘Need a civil disobedience movement against EC’: TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Bihar voter roll revision
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has moved the Supreme Court to try and stop the revision. In this interview with Moitra, she speaks about the process, calling it a way to disenfranchise voters “by ...