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A tradition-bound village institution in northern India, notorious for regressive honour killings, has done a sharp turnaround by joining the country’s battle against female infanticide. Haryana’s ‘khap panchayat’ is in …
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Relief has been pouring into Uttarakhand ever since the floods ravaged the Himalayan state. Besides the armed forces and government, innumerable NGOs, charitable organisations and religious institutions have been working …
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In an ironic twist, Britain, which colonised India for centuries, is now going to expose its school children to the history of India’s freedom struggle. If the new national curriculum …
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It’s raining houses in the US for Indians, quite literally. The US real estate market has been flooded by Indian investments ever since the bursting of the housing bubble in …
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Against the backdrop of the increasing strategic salience of the Indian Ocean and China’s rapidly expanding footprints in the region, India has signed a trilateral maritime agreement with Sri Lanka …
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The holy Bodhi tree, under which Lord Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment centuries ago, has emerged unscathed, but a string of horrendous blasts targeting the famed Mahabodhi temple …
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Amid festering strategic distrust between Asia’s rising powers, the defence ministers of India and China are set for wide-ranging talks in Beijing that aim at buttressing trust and promoting enhanced …
Read MoreIt’s admission season in colleges in India — a season of soaring hopes and great expectations! Students and their families believe that admission in a good college and a sufficiently …
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The recent calamity in Uttarakhand, triggered by apocalyptic floods in India’s northern hilly state, is a disaster with ripples reaching far and wide, hitting hard the tourism industry, the lynchpin …
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When writer Khushwant Singh wrote his famous novel Train to Pakistan, he may not have thought of what is nestled close – the jewel in India’s crown, Kashmir. The good …
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