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Deadlocked Yet Again

The turf war between the judiciary and the executive over appointment of judges reaches another cul-de-sac. There are no signs of a modified Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) heralding transparency seeing...

Kerala liquor ban: In a Tight Squeeze

The SC order banning booze outlets along highways has hit the state hard as it has a high population density and little land, igniting fears of a parallel illicit drugs industry  ~By Naveen Nair i...

Gujarat: Getting Wet While Dry

The state’s judiciary has criticized its prohibition policy by pointing out numerous leakages. Decades of ban have only fuelled a multi-crore, black money spewing industry ~By RK Mishra in Gandhin...

Assam: Two is the New Norm

The state government’s attempt to curb the number of children its citizens can have is being seen as a move to reduce Bangladeshi settlers there. In the process, are fundamental rights getting violate...

GST: Taxing Times?

Though the “one market, one rate” tax regime is likely to be implemented from July 1, some concerns remain, making it advisable to delay the target to September 1, 2017 ~By Sumit Dutt MajumderThe j...

New UGC guideline will deplete JNU’s research base

The decision to drastically cut the number of seats for MPhil and Phd will affect education in ways which the present policy-makers perhaps are unable to envision ~By Meha MathurEven as the Kanhaiy...

A Matter of Culture

While President Pranab Mukherjee has cleared the proposals of a parliamentary panel that says speeches of dignitaries should be in Hindi if they can, this smacks of ignorance of India’s culture and re...

Ploughing a National Furrow

The apex court enlarges the scope of a PIL filed on farmer suicides in Gujarat to encompass problems faced by the agrarian community across the country. This is a welcome step ~By RK Misra in Gandh...

Meatless in BJP’s UP

The problem of slaughterhouses was simmering long before the new government acted peremptorily in the matter. Now that it has dirtied its hands, it will have to do the clean-up ~By Parsa Venkatesh...

Prejudice or backlash?

The recent attacks on Nigerians in Greatar Noida show that private biases are now openly vented triggering a larger debate as how much intolerance is seeped in Indian society  ~By Usha Rani DasA s...

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