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समय से पहले रिहाई के लिए दोषियों द्वारा पछतावा एक पूर्व शर्त होनी चाहिए
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Opinion | The wanton abuse of power by Karnataka police inside a hospital in Mangaluru, charging at people injured during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, sets a dangerous precedent, writes
@RPrasad12
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Editorial | While deradicalisation is certainly an imperative, Gen.
#BipinRawat
’s solution is way off the mark. Segregation of youth from family and community is a recipe for further alienation and public revulsion and also plainly illegal.
#Kashmir
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Comment | In India, sanitation work is caste-ridden. There is an urgent need to dissociate caste from labour as the workers in this field are devoid of their essential rights and still face stigma
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Editorial | The case of Dr. Khan is poor advertisement for India’s democratic credentials, for it brings to light its propensity to criminalise dissent, single out individuals for persecution & display a general disregard for basic rights
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Here is today's cartoon by Surendra.
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Comment | There is no one to celebrate P.V. Narasimha Rao's achievements in life; no one to bemoan his humiliation in death; no one to make a spirited demand for awarding the Bharat Ratna to him. Perhaps his subversive streak did not spare his own legacy.
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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Opinion | Bhagat Singh’s intellectual bequest should be a beacon of light to build a new India.
#BhagatSingh
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Editorial | The ‘othering’ of Muslims is no more discreet, but is being actively promoted in public and shared through social media.
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Today's cartoon by Satwik Gade
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Here is the cartoon for today by Surendra
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Comment | Nepotism is the latest instrument from the right-wing populist toolkit. As an ideological weapon, it is a missile with multiple warheads
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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Comment | The killing of gangster
#VikasDubey
was clearly a case of premeditated murder and not a spontaneous act of self-defence as the Uttar Pradesh police would have us believe.
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Today's cartoon by Deepak Harichandran
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Editorial | National identity cannot be linked to any one
#language
, as it is, by definition, something that transcends linguistic and regional differences.
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Opinion | As the government of India grapples with its next steps at the Line of Actual Control (LAC), it must cast a grand strategy, to renew its compact with the 'five fingers' today
#IndiaChinaFaceOff
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Comment | In the context of
#InternationalTigerDay
, India must not lose sight of the fact that there are other factors critical to ensuring the survival of this big cat, writes
@uramakri
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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Here's today's cartoon by Surendra
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Comment | You can write off your losses and walk away from a con man on the street, but how do you walk away from your own country?
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#Opinion
| Karnataka is poorer without A.K. Ramanujan, U.R. Ananthamurthy and Girish Karnad
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Comment | The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of 2019 has had huge consequences on both the domestic and foreign policy front.
#CAAProtests
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Comment | The fact that the Union Home Ministry has provided
#KanganaRanaut
with Y plus security has convinced many that she is acting as a surrogate for the
#BJP
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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All it wants to do is to demolish secular India and the Gandhi-Nehru state to erect a Hindutva state instead
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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Editorial | A larger message from the demise of the
#Rajapaksa
brand is that muscular nationalism and majoritarian mobilisation may not be an endless reservoir of support, and will be of no avail when the masses face economic hardship.
#SriLankaProtests
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Editorial | The Press Council of India must act in the interest of a free media and not kowtow to the government
#Kashmir
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Here is today's cartoon by Vasini Varadan
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Comment | In Aligarh Muslim University’s 100 years, it has not only contributed to nation-building but also played a role in India’s quest for building friendly ties with the Muslim world.
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Opinion| What are the compulsions that could have made
#NirmalasSitharaman
shy away from stating the numbers as her predecessors have done earlier, no matter how uncomfortable the fiscal position?
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Here is today's cartoon by Deepak Harichandan.
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Editorial | India must focus on what needs to be done, not on whom to blame for the virus spread.
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The Hindu Lokniti-CSDS post-poll survey | Twice as many voters in Tamil Nadu held a negative sentiment about the BJP than a positive one.
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Opinion | The media cannot be muzzled. India, after all, is not China. So it is in the government’s own interests to ensure what’s reported is well-informed, and not speculative or exaggerated.
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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Editorial | Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stated resolve to tap the energy of the sun to substantially power the economy and everyday life is to be welcomed, because it could help chart a green deal for the future.
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Opinion | India’s labouring poor have largely disappeared even from the inner pages of newspapers and from television screens.
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Opinion | The manner in which the torture bill has been treated reveals a betrayal of the people of India by successive governments
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Comment | “I have no status to apologise on behalf of the UK, its government or its history. But I am personally very sorry for this terrible atrocity,” Archbishop of Canterbury said at Jallianwala Bagh
#jallianwalabagh
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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Opinion | It is this man-made suffering that has recently invaded our lives. It is induced neither solely by
#COVID19
nor by the decision to lockdown but largely by how the lockdown has been handled.
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Comment | The suicide of actor
#SushantSinghRajput
has instigated a discussion on how certain individuals or families control the
#film
industry and often exclude the ‘outsider’
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Opinion | There is a tendency in today’s world to think and to say that Gandhi’s ideal of non-violence is a noble idea but impractical and unrealistic. The odd thing about this affirmation is that it tends to sanctify him while rejecting his principles.
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Comment | Today is the 71st anniversary of Gandhi’s death. His
#assassination
was a great shock. But, strangely, his death unified those in India who had lost faith in non-violent co-existence.
#MahatmaGandhi
#Martyrs
' Day
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Opinion | The India that Narendra Modi faced this August 15 was in desperate need of an assurance that the nation’s affairs were in safe, competent hands.
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Editorial | The special status of J&K was never meant to be permanent, but it should not have been scrapped without wider consultations
#Article370
#Article35A
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Editorial | The government has no power to make the app’s use compulsory without legislative authorisation.
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Editorial | The shutting down of the Internet in
#Delhi
and several States as a response to growing protests against the CAA is unsophisticated and deeply damaging to social life and the economy.
#CAA_NRC_Protest
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विपक्ष भाजपा पर हमला करने के बजाय अपना बचाव करने तक सिमट कर रह गया है
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Comment | The treatment of the
#SushantSinghRajput
case by some TV news channels is a good example of how the interrelated concerns about ratings and revenues drive news coverage in substantial parts of the electronic media.
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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नफरत फैलने से रोकने के लिए सुप्रीम कोर्ट को हरसंभव प्रयास करना चाहिए
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Editorial | It seems the dilution of
#Article370
was not the end of the problem but the beginning of fresh challenges in
#Kashmir
, which need careful handling rather than just muscular triumphalism.
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Editorial | The BJP seems to have fielded Pragya Singh Thakur for all the wrong reasons.
#PragyaSinghThakur
#PragyaThakur
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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Opinion | Mr. Modi, in the conduct of India’s foreign policy, surely does not allow any extraneous considerations to influence his thinking, and is basing his approach by what he perceives as furthering our national interests
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Today's cartoon by Vasini Varadan
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Comment | Today’s policymakers fail to understand Nehru’s eminently sensible approach
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Editorial | It is regrettable that the police and the bureaucracy appear to act in wanton disregard for basic rights. The relentless hounding of Dr. Khan is a blot on the country’s democratic credentials.
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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Editorial |
#Ethiopian
Prime Minister
#AbiyAhmed
should stop the collective punishment of the Tigrayan people, end the blockade and be ready for talks with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (
#TPLF
) for a mutually agreeable cessation of all hostilities
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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Opinion | As we bid farewell to
#CJI
Bobde, the
#SupremeCourt
must examine what has happened to what had once been called the most powerful court in the world and a beacon for many other courts across the world
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Comment | The people of India, despairing of the BJP’s overweening dominance and increasingly divisive governance, need us to perform both “Bharat Jodo”and “Congress Jodo”, writes
@ShashiTharoor
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Editorial | The Centre’s insistence, based on new UGC guidelines, that final year examinations in all universities and institutions be held in spite of the risk posed by
#COVID19
is a needless complication in the national pandemic response
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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सशक्त घरेलू बुनियाद, भारतीय शतरंज को नई ऊंचाइयों पर ले जा रहा है |
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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Today's cartoon:
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Today's cartoon by Vasini Varadan
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Comment | Accounts from the past suggest that
#SardarPatel
played a key role in the incorporation of Article 370 in the Constitution, writes Karan Thapar
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Opinion | Britain’s refusal to squarely apologise for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre is expected but disappointing.
#JallianwalaBaghCentenary
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Comment | Ramanujan’s greatness is not that he was a poor man who travelled to England & did research. It is that he was prolific & that his works were diverse, original & transcended time; & all this while he surmounted many odds coming from indigence
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Today's cartoon by Surendra
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Opinion | India needs its top leader to make people realise why science has no substitute in the battle against
#COVID19
.
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Comment | Mahalanobis is perhaps more relevant today when the accuracy of different sorts of data — from economic data to COVID-19 data — is under the scanner.
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राहुल गांधी को सजा आपराधिक मानहानि को खत्म करने की जरूरत पर बल देती है।
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