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The Maharashtra Government agreed to negotiate with the representatives of the Shetkari Sanghatana, including its leader, Sharad Joshi, on their demands for remunerative prices for agricultural produce. Consequently, the Shetkari leaders suspended their agitation till

NFHS data on child malnourishment presents sobering picture. Government must go back to drawing board, plug holes.

Talking and listening: That’s what PM said was spirit of democracy. Invoking imaginary ‘anti-national gangs’ of farmers undermines that.

He elevated the espionage novel to literature. His protagonists were all too human, and bore cost of ideologically-driven battles.

In most commercial contracts, dispute redressal is by arbitration and big ticket deals provide for institutional arbitration.

Developed countries with significant coal capacities such as Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States are taking different approaches to weaning away from coal.

Society looks back to its past or at who women choose to marry or kiss for the source of its problems when, in reality, these are engendered by large-scale structural transformations introduced by the current

No change is without risk but there are only two choices: Journey on with an unfit system (status quo) or be ambitious (reform). For once, a government has chosen the latter, but a vociferous section

Astad Deboo could break free of the stage, and do a tandav on the Great Wall of China. He was a citizen of the world, and he brought it home.

France's proposed law to deal with 'enemy within' could be counterproductive, undermine country's founding principles.

The RSS mode of targeting Muslims as the permanent enemy, and Owaisi’s attempts to organise Muslims electorally, may lead to a national disorientation and gradual disaster.

A database of migrant and unorganised sector workers should serve as the basis of a new social security architecture.

The MIG-25 is capable of flying at 2,900 kilometres per hour. It has achieved a maximum height of 35,000 metres in 4 minutes, 11 seconds. According to the defence ministry, the delivery schedule of the

Between the lawns of Rajpath and the barricaded borders of Delhi today, we see the city becoming increasingly hostile to dissent. The state wants to keep the protestors out and the general public accepts the

India must continue to pursue institutionalisation of multilateral frameworks irrespective of regional conflicts.

The new rules are a follow-up on the amendments to the FCRA that were passed in the last session of Parliament.

The most rampant crime in UP is two young people falling in love and marrying! The ‘new’ normal for UP may become the new normal for India. That is scary.

Is it just that sort of moment when Indian reality becomes so surreal that it is hard to see clearly what reality is any more. Through the fog of surrealism what is clear is that

One cannot be blind to the suppression of one’s own while positing a universalist agenda. Anti-women behaviour needs to be addressed as a community project.

"I had to quarantine myself for seven days in a Bangalore hotel before leaving for the IPL," says Parthiv Patel, who recently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.

The asymmetric negotiating matrix between the famers and corporates will invariably lead to negation of their rights. The present laws alter the bargaining landscape in favour of the corporate players to the detriment of the

Sri Lanka offered DDCs as a solution at a time when the Tamil polity was already radicalised. The DDCs became a reality but they did nothing for Sri Lanka’s relations with its Tamil citizens.

Surjit S Bhalla writes: A minuscule minority of farmers is protesting against the farm laws. They don’t want an end to the system that has benefited them.

There are many “parties” working as “non-state actors” who may dislike your reports and come after you. In the interior of the province of Sindh, a journalist can be kidnapped and killed by an offended

Waving, air kissing and namaste will replace the handshake. Maybe in retrospect, we’ll miss this bizarre time that has provoked a universal bout of mass introspection.