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A UP police station house officer (SHO), a 20-year-old and a number of cows paid with their lives for a seemingly failed attempt at inciting communal violence in Bulandshahr. The fact that the same SHO had investigated the Dadri lynching of Akhlaque makes coincidence a...

This, it would appear, is a winter of rural India’s discontent and desperation. The chill is palpably unbearable. Two stunning reports have emerged from Maharashtra, which demonstrate the sad plight of farmers — not in one state, but across the country. One report from Ahmednagar...

The Coal Scam, one of the huge corruption scandals that nailed the UPA II, involved governmental allocation of the nation's huge deposits of coal for extraction to public and private sector firms. Cases were filed in 2012 after the CAG found the allocations had been...

In July this year, the Centre had raised the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy by Rs 200 — way below the state government's demand of Rs 2,900 per quintal. The hike, though very small, was expected to bring in a semblance of relief to...

Orissa put up a spectacular show 27 November, 2018 to mark commencement of the Men’s Hockey World Cup. Oriyas have historically been a non outdoorsy, non sporty race. It is not difficult to imagine that in the period probably before Christ, this race must have...

I was a few days short of my 23rd birthday December 6, 1992. That evening I was at my friend Rajiv Desai’s house and he told me that the Babri Masjid had been pulled down. I felt excited by the thought that something new and...

The introduction of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) in early 1990s revolutionised the experience of banking in India. Although ATM kiosks, to begin with, were confined to urban areas, subsequently they penetrated into semi-urban and rural landscapes. It took a while for lay customers to accept...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) seems to have surrendered national interests for personal gains of a few individuals currently holding office in that organization. The decision to bow before the demand to part with a huge amount of reserve funds generally held by RBI...

Mahatma Gandhi, in an attempt to address casteist oppression, coined the term Harijan to refer to the then ‘untouchables’. He may have believed that a term, which has the name of a divinity as its prefix, could perhaps change the way society viewed that section...

Schoolchildren of Pochani, a village about 80 km from Jameshdpur in Jharkhand, are reportedly carrying bows and arrows to school. They fear they would be harmed by strangers they spot in the jungles and are carrying these in self defence, according to the reports. It...