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Mayhem In Mandsaur

The Shivraj Singh Chouhan government remained complacent as resentment was building up among the farmers of Madhya Pradesh over the unremunerative prices of farm produce. Then came Mandsaur to wake it up.

Bumper Problem

With low market prices and little help from the government,Rajasthan’s farmers, especially garlic producers, are in a financial mess in a good crop year.

Scheme Sans Substance

The Yogi Adityanath government’s waiver plan, constrained by resource crunch, is a non-starter.

The Strikes & The Echo

Tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in the subcontinent are escalating following India’s “surgical strikes” across the LoC in late September.

matter of routine

the killing of innocent civilians in fake encounters and branding them as foreign mercenaries has been going on in jammu and kashmir for close to 27 years in what is seen as an attempt to subjugate the local people.

Clean Sweep In Himachal Pradesh

The BJP wrests power from the Congress in a keenly fought election marked by a few upsets.

Long Road Ahead

With his formal elevation as Congress president, Rahul Gandhi now faces several challenges to lift his party from the doldrums. 

A New Platform

Jignesh Mevani’s rally in New Delhi brings fiery youth leaders on a single platform to mount a challenge to the BJP and fight against atrocities on Dalits and other marginalised sections of society.

Reliance Jio: A Full Scale War In The Mobile Telephony Business

Reliance Industries unleashes a full-scale war in the mobile business by blurring the divide between voice and data. But its entry as a harbinger of radical change is sullied by grave questions of regulatory negligence that has stifled competition.

Hall Of Shame

The way the Yogi Adityanath government has dealt with the Unnao rape case has caused a setback for itself and the BJP, which came to power in Uttar Pradesh promising, among others, improved law and order.

Stillborn Scheme

An audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India comes down heavily on the Haryana government for its lax implementation of the Beti Bachao scheme.

A Spanner In The Works

Hit hard by demonetisation and GST, micro, small and medium enterprises in Vadodara and Surat, the industrial hubs of Gujarat, are striving to make a comeback.

Reverse Growth

Demonetisation and GST have pushed back Kanpur, the second largest city in Uttar Pradesh and a leather industry centre, by ten years.

A Method In The Madness

There are similarities between the murders of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, M.M. Kalburgi and Gauri Lankesh that cannot be dismissed as merely coincidental.

Murdering Scholarship

Why was M.M. Kalburgi, a top-notch scholar who doggedly pursued the path of truthful research, assassinated two years ago? What, in his research, moved Hindutva bigots to mow him down? 

Ruined livelihoods

More than 80 per cent of India’s workforce is in the informal or unorganised sector and has taken the full brunt of the demonetisation move.

Voting Out Democracy

The military junta in Thailand gets yet another Constitution passed through a “referendum” which effectively prevents any single party from gaining a majority in Parliament. BY JOHN CHERIAN

Acid Victims

A spurt in acid attacks against women has become a cause for concern in rural and urban West Bengal. BY Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay.

Syrian File

Caught between Turkey’s demands and Kurdish ambitions, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has an impossible mission in Syria in which he is both the peacemaker and the war maker.

In A Sea Of Hate

The fate of the Rohingya refugees in India hangs in the balance as the Narendra Modi government sees them as a threat to national security although police verification of refugees camping in Jammu has proved to the contrary.

Tinderbox Petition

The legal challenge to Article 35A, which protects the demographic composition of Jammu and Kashmir, has brought all sides of the political spectrum, barring the BJP, together. Tampering with it has the potential of setting the Valley ablaze once again.

Sticky Wicket

Successive electoral defeats have put the Aam Aadmi Party on unsure ground and given the BJP an edge in Delhi.

israel's isolation

in the first serious condemnation of israel by the international community in eight years, a u.n. security council resolution holds the establishment of jewish settlements in the occupied territories illegal.

systemic bias

ncrb data and other reports indicate how the most marginalised sections are also the most criminalised.

violation of doctrine

the bhopal “encounter” and its aftermath raise the question whether the madhya pradesh government is aware of the supreme court guidelines to be followed in cases of death in police encounters.

Turbulent Phase

Never before had the head of the judiciary publicly and repeatedly expressed exasperation over the government’s continued indifference to the judiciary’s concerns.

Selfie Diplomacy

The Prime Minister’s personalised foreign policy approach fails to deliver.

Justice Without Fairness

The Supreme Court’s order convicting and sentencing Justice C.S. Karnan raises serious questions about the court’s commitment not only to natural justice but also to freedom of expression.

Stalled Impeachment

The process to initiate impeachment proceedings against Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy of the Andhra Pradesh/Telangana High Court for alleged interference in the course of the judicial process, including physical assault and use of caste slurs against a Dalit junior civil judge, is sought to be revived.

The Afghan Toll

The U.S. has little to show for its long engagement inAfghanistan. And if the Taliban returns to power, it will be a major blow to U.S. prestige. Every contingency will be taken to prevent that outcome, even the destruction of Afghanistan.