The Supreme Court judgment reveals the courts and the Constitution as providing a challenge to majoritarianism.
Besides persistent inequality, global hunger is accentuated by climate change, conflict and falling nutrition standards.
Should India be alarmed or relieved that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad will be giving the Bajrang Dal lessons in law?
At the recent World Hindu Congress in Chicago, vice-president Venkaiah Naidu's moderate voice was the exception.
If the river has to be cleaned, its social ecosystem needs to change along with its physical ecosystem.
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Between April 2002 and March 2018, there have been 13 major fires in Calcutta - nine of them in markets and warehouses - and Bagree Market is only the latest.
Commercial DNA data storage will not be available any time soon. But when it happens, the storage race may be over.
The environment makes poor business sense. This seems to be the bedrock of the philosophy propounded by the president of the United States of America. What else can explain Donald Trump's repeated attempts to weaken institutions that seek to safeguard what is left of threatened ecosystems around the world.
The response of the former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, to the parliamentary estimates committee's query on non-performing assets has triggered off the usual fault-finding exercise. According to the former governor, NPAs began to grow rapidly during the United Progressive Alliance government's time and then continued in the National Democratic Alliance regime.
In a sermon on the mount, Hispreaching Son Shylla was exhorting the audience to vote for his party, the All Party Hill Leaders Conference, in the 1993 Meghalaya Assembly elections. "Breathe, breathe," he appeared to say in a fervent yogic chant. "Breathe... out!"
Pep talks may unite a party but divide a nation. That seems to be the message that can be gleaned from the recent speech that the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party delivered in Rajasthan. Amit Shah thundered that the BJP's political juggernaut has rolled on in spite of the reservations expressed by 'liberals' on Mohammad Akhlaque's lynching in Dadri. Mr Shah also added for good measure that his party remains committed to expel illegal immigrants.
Is suicide a disease? One of the findings in the five studies on the statewise analysis of non-communicable diseases based on data from India as part of the Global Burden of Disease report between 1990 and 2016 shows that 37 per cent of the total number of suicides among women all over the world occurs in India.
In Goa, without a plan or company, and photo ops aplenty
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