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Why the EC has not moved against Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

The Election Commission had issued a general advisory, saying political parties/candidates should desist from indulging in any propaganda involving defence forces

By Pheroze L. Vincent

India

Author and newspaper columnist Twinkle Khanna

Modi to Akshay: I am watching Twinkle

By Our Bureau

India

Tu-taadi friends: Modi and Obama

By The Telegraph

India

CJI case: Will get to root if plot is established, says SC

By R. Balaji

Opinion

Which party stands for the environment?

By Bhaswati Chakravorty

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Kanhaiya in Begusarai on Wednesday.

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The Kanhaiya paradox: riveting yet onerous

By Sankarshan Thakur
A Thomson Reuters office in London. Asian News International (ANI), a partner, has been accused of “defaming” the intentions of an appeal against the use of the armed forces for political purposes

India

Veterans write to Reuters about ANI's report

By Imran Ahmed Siddiqui
Chinese businessman Jack Ma recently endorsed a 72-hour working week. Industry leaders and owners consider total production to be more important than the quality of life of the people who work for them

Opinion

Are long work hours really a blessing, Mr Ma?

By The Editorial Board
In this Oct. 30, 2009 file photo, a mother holds her baby receiving a new malaria vaccine as part of a trial at the Walter Reed Project Research Center in Kombewa in Western Kenya.

World

Malawi becomes 1st nation to immunise kids against malaria

By AP
In India, bad healthcare has received little popular attention and has never been an electoral issue. Public demand for healthcare in India has not been vigorous enough to move it up the government’s agenda.

Opinion

Wanted: clamour on health care in India

By Soham D. Bhaduri
Features
Karan Johar had initially planned to make Kalank his big casting coup with Ajay Devgn as the khandani, legitimate son and Shah Rukh Khan as the boy out there in Lahore’s notorious Hira Mandi but shelved it temporarily
Anand Patwardhan’s latest film, Reason, is divided into eight chapters with names like Shivaji Kaun Thhe, In the Name of Cow, and so on
Comment
The Nobel Committee is still trying to live down criticism over its Peace Prize to former US president Barack Obama when he was in office, and before the drone attacks he ordered led to record deaths
Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Republic Day in New Delhi on Saturday, January 26, 2019. In the current atmosphere, the complaint against the CJI and its timing have caused more confusion.
BJP candidate Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur in Bhopal on Thursday, April 18, 2019. She is the ideal mascot to convey two central and intertwined Hindtuva themes: the Hindu as the “victim” and the Hindu as the “avenger”
In this May 19, 2017, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures to supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he lived in self imposed exile from 2012 until his arrest on April 11, 2019.
Shakeel Ahmed turned a rebel to file his nomination from Madhubani, his traditional bastion
Former chief election commissioner T.N. Seshan represented the flip-side of a lax culture of informality — where the gaps in the law were weaponized to keep political parties in check
As one billionaire after another pulled millions of dollars out of their pockets to help restore Notre-Dame after the recent fire, and President Emmanuel Macron promised to restore the cathedral, many people burned with anger and a sense of neglect
Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal was allegedly propped up by a scheming world of crony capitalism
Members of the largest minority community feel deeply insecure as it is their food, beef, that is being projected as equivalent to poison for the majority community
Kim A. Wagner
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election rally at Akluj, in Solapur district, Maharashtra, on Wednesday, April 17, 2019.
Owning a toilet is no guarantee of use as several studies, field visits and interviews with sanitation workers have shown

The truth about Swachh Bharat

By Nitya Jacob and Sunetra Lala

Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati addresses a press conference after Election Commission banned her from campaigning for two days, in Lucknow on Monday, April 15, 2019.
Under authoritarian regimes, school-level history is often purged of episodes of violence, atrocities and other forms of oppression perpetrated by the State to create a facade of harmony and unity

When history is a weapon

By Shuvatri Dasgupta

The papers reveal how brazenly the Prime Minister’s Office rode roughshod over the Indian negotiating team by offering unprecedented waivers in offset agreements, and the changes made by the Narendra Modi-led government seem like mala fides
The Greenpeace report placed Lahore in the 10th spot and New Delhi eleventh in a global list of 4,200 odd cities with toxic air

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