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India

Who is afraid of job survey?

Union minister Arun Jaitley termed as 'preposterous' suggestions of job losses in the country

The Centre has effectively sounded the death knell for a quarterly employment survey

By Basant Kumar Mohanty

India

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra near Varanasi.

Purifiers crawl out in New India

By Piyush Srivastava and Pheroze L. Vincent

India

UK does what India did not: Jail NiMo

By Amit Roy

India

68 killed, all acquitted. BJP calls it ‘historic’

By Our Special Correspondent

India

PM feels chowkidar pain

By Our Special Correspondent

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A Stanford University researcher has concluded that a teacher adds value to an institution of learning; if teachers’ salaries reflected their value added they would teach better, and new teachers would be induced to add value.

Opinion

How can we fix our terrible school system?

By Ashok V. Desai
Rescue work in progress after a foot overbridge near CSMT station collapsed in south Mumbai on Thursday, March 14. The bridge connected the bustling Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus railway station with the Azad Maidan Police Station.

Opinion

Lessons from the Mumbai bridge collapse

By The Editorial Board
The Indian model for appointing the CBI director is opaque. A three-member panel consisting of the prime minister, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and the leader of the Opposition meet behind closed doors, and if two out of the three agree, the director is appointed

Opinion

Bringing the CBI into the light

By Anthony Khatchaturian
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern meets representatives of the Muslim community at the Canterbury Refugee Centre in Christchurch on March 16, 2019.

World

Ardern vows to deny accused gunman the notoriety he seeks

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The difference between a paleolithic edge-to-edge bite (left) and a modern overbite

Science

A taste for f-words

By G.S. Mudur
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Culture

At a shrine, pushed around and paying for a blessing

By Sonia Sarkar
Features
Chicken pattice, a classic Parsi appetizer
Sanya Malhotra
Kristian and Hila Aadnevik
Comment
Windmills in the Thar desert. India has the world’s fifth-largest renewable energy installed capacity of 70 gigawatts, comprising 22 GW of solar and 35 GW of wind energy. Total capacity is expected to increase to 140 GW by 2023, putting the total capital cost at more than $100 billion.

Strategies for renewable energy

By Arsalan Ali Farooquee and Upendra Bhatt

The Supreme Court has stayed the conviction and contempt proceedings against the editor of the Shillong Times, Patricia Mukhim.
Amit Shah: Pure focus
A few regulars of a certain vintage get together for longish bouts of 'adda', once in the morning, and once after office.
A discussion organised by the SOAS Indian Society, titled ‘Violence and Dissent in Modi’s India’, held in London in February 2019

Why Indian diaspora voices matter at home

By Adrija Dey, Chandni Chawla and Siddharth Chakravarty

Do you remember that last chun aao? Do you remember how you went about the last chun aao? You cannot not remember.
US Democratic representative Ilhan Omar might not have expected a strong backlash condemning her for her alleged anti-Semitism, but she might not have anticipated the stronger wave of support in her favour either

The changing fortunes of Israel

By Karthick Ram Manoharan

Official figures may show the current US unemployment rate at a mere 4%, but there has been a notable decline in the ratio of labour-force to population in the US since the crisis of 2008, owing to the ‘discouraged worker effect’ arising from meagre employment opportunities.
Mohammad Ali Bogra, the Pakistani premier, along with his second wife, on their arrival in Delhi from Karachi being received by Jawarhalal Nehru at Palam Airport in May 1955.
Traffic congestion at the S.N. Banerjee Road crossing, one of Calcutta's busiest intersections
A passenger was offloaded at Chennai airport last week after he happened to retort, in view of the extra vigil: “Am I carrying a bomb in my bag?”

Renewed clamour for more travel curbs

By Sudipta Bhattacharjee

The Supreme Court has recognized and reiterated the constitutional right to a clean environment
BJP MLA Rakesh Singh Baghel (right) after meeting the party's state unit president Mahendra Nath Pandey in Lucknow on Thursday, March 7. Baghel had come to blows with party MP Sharad Tripathi in a meeting in Sant Kabirnagar on Wednesday.
Schoolteachers are required to observe a rigorous code of conduct not only because they have the onerous task of shaping young minds, but also for their own protection
Question Sources and you are questioning the Nation
Dhritiman Chaterji in a scene from 'Pratidwandi'

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