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May 12, 2016 00:09 IST

The minister said electoral rolls were revised again by reference to January 1, 1976 as the qualifying date and were proposed to be finally published in August 1976.

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May 12, 2016 22:16 IST

Adi Godrej articulates a wider unease with the proliferation of bans — on beef or alcohol.

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May 12, 2016 00:00 IST

Amended tax treaty with Mauritius promises more transparency, reduced evasion, shored up revenues.

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May 11, 2016 00:55 IST

Using consumption expenditure to draw a poverty line leads to a flawed understanding of poverty.

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May 11, 2016 15:59 IST

Revelations of MP government’s ads to dodgy websites point to a larger malaise.

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May 11, 2016 00:30 IST

Indira Gandhi said India sought friendship with all nations, especially its neighbours.

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May 11, 2016 00:25 IST

A Central ministry must wait nine months for clearances for a parking lot. Thereby hangs a tale.

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May 11, 2016 00:15 IST

Lancet’s finding of self-harm among the youth is a warning: Don’t take demographic dividend for granted.

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May 11, 2016 00:00 IST

One of the questions in Uttarakhand, after the floor test: Was the Supreme Court’s handholding necessary?

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May 10, 2016 00:55 IST

H.R. Gokhale affirmed that whatever amendments were decided upon, the democratic structure would not be abandoned.

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May 10, 2016 08:30 IST

The fact that the court chose to discharge the accused 10 years after the crime, speaks volumes about the prosecution evidence in the present case

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May 10, 2016 02:25 IST

Nitish government must act firmly and quickly to ensure that justice is done — and is seen to be done.

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May 10, 2016 00:03 IST

While Europe battens down the hatches, London voted against the suspicion of the other.

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May 10, 2016 08:26 IST

In Haryana, a new law makes it mandatory for a general male candidate to pass Class X and a general woman candidate to pass Class VIII

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May 10, 2016 00:00 IST

A new study of death row convicts reinforces the case for the abolition of capital punishment in this country.

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May 9, 2016 00:01 IST

The strange strictures proposed by the Geospatial Bill will be the death of cartography.

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May 9, 2016 12:20 IST

It can only be the beginning of the search for one.

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May 9, 2016 00:01 IST

Oli government survives, but it must ask itself why it has failed to forge a consensus on the way forward in Nepal.

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May 9, 2016 12:26 IST

Those committed to gender parity are hoping for early verdicts from the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court

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May 7, 2016 00:53 IST

This makes it the most wide-ranging meeting between the two countries since the signing of the Simla Agreement when Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto met in 1973.

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May 7, 2016 00:53 IST

Vicente Calderon could be the eventual destination, some 12-odd kilometres west of Bernabeu, overlooking the historic Almudena cathedral.

May 7, 2016 00:53 IST

Parallel to this mission for war crimes justice, Bangladesh has witnessed a spate of horrific murders of secular and aethist thinkers, writers, bloggers and academics since the 2013 killing of blogger Rajib Haider.

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May 7, 2016 11:10 IST

The public would have benefited from knowing what the representatives of the people have to say on the drought situation as it has unfolded in their areas.

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May 7, 2016 00:53 IST

Ibn Khaldun thought the tribals were bound together by their “asabiya” (group feeling) and were united in making war on the “soft” city.

May 6, 2016 00:50 IST

Apex court does well to set the government a deadline to cure the MCI of its several ills.

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