Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, arrested in connection with the assassination of Lala Jagat Narain will be released on October 15, according to Akali...

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Gujarat or Delhi, PM Narendra Modi’s dynamism and vision have marked his tenure

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed 20 years in public service as head of a government at the state and national level on October...

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Granting bail in UAPA cases, Assam courts push back against misuse of terror law

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In a welcome pushback, the judiciary in Assam has granted bail to 14 people arrested under the UAPA for social media posts that...

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It is not criticism by moderate Muslims that fuels Islamophobia

NewsBoat.in - October 12, 2021 0

If right-wing Hindus and right-wing Muslims are equally displeased with “elite Muslims” like Javed Akhtar and Naseeruddin Shah, they must be doing something...

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October 11, 1981, Forty Years Ago

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Two Andhra Pradesh ministers, C Das and Chandrababu Naidu, who were suspended by PCC chief K Prabhakara Rao for defiance of party directives,...

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The Baadshah and I; the father and us all

NewsBoat.in - October 10, 2021 0

It was a bus full of irrepressible teenagers, exhausted by the demands of high school, overfed on much-shared Mills & Boons, tired of...

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Nobel Peace Prize to journalists is acknowledgement of challenges to the profession

NewsBoat.in - October 9, 2021 0

Too often, in recent times, there has been a tendency among the powers that be in many countries to confuse order for peace,...

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A unidimensional view of history

NewsBoat.in - October 8, 2021 0

Balbir Punj (‘Misleading the past’, IE, October 2) has basically opposed RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s understanding of history — Bhagwat has been trying...

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Singapore has deployed robot police officers to discipline citizens. The danger is the cop inside people’s heads

NewsBoat.in - October 7, 2021 0

For the lovers of efficient, consumerist authoritarianism, Singapore is indeed a paradise. The streets are clean, the restaurants swanky and the worldly cosmopolitanism...

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On Digital Health ID, proceed with caution

NewsBoat.in - October 6, 2021 0

On September 27, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Digital Health ID project (DHID), generating debate on issues related to the use of...

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Daniel Craig gave the James Bond myth what it desperately needed: An update

NewsBoat.in - October 5, 2021 0

Daniel Craig’s 007 is no longer in Her Majesty’s Secret Service. He would have gotten off Bond duty earlier, had Covid-19 not pushed...

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What the continued distress in informal labour market says

NewsBoat.in - October 4, 2021 0

Economic data released over the past few weeks suggests that the Indian economy has emerged from the second wave of the pandemic better...

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This was not Gandhi’s idea of khadi

NewsBoat.in - October 2, 2021 0

In a Mann ki Baat broadcast in 2019 and another last Sunday, the Prime Minister stressed his support for khadi, cottage industries, crafts...

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Manny Pacquiao, fighting to be Philippines’ president, has his bout cut out for him

NewsBoat.in - October 2, 2021 0

Manny Pacquiao is quick on his feet, has great instincts, formidable power both to his right and left and a knock-out one-two combo....

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Con artists know the only market that never collapses is one for the well told tale

NewsBoat.in - October 1, 2021 0

Once upon a time, in the lush, coastal state of Kerala lived a man named Monson Mavunkal, who claimed to have many wondrous...

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What gives rise to the rural debt trap?

NewsBoat.in - September 30, 2021 0

The All-India Debt and Investment Surveys (AIDIS), carried out by the National Statistical Office are among the most important nationally representative data sources...

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September 29, 1981, Forty Years Ago: IMF loan

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India’s application for $ 5 billion in SDRs will be considered by the executive body of the International Monetary Fund on November 9,...

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The Quad is an important political signal. But it will be tested

NewsBoat.in - September 28, 2021 0

The consolidation of the Quad is an important political pivot in reconfiguring the Asian order. For the United States, it signals a commitment...

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It can be symbolic of a new India that it will not let anyone starve in South Asia

NewsBoat.in - September 27, 2021 0

There was a time when the US used food aid as a powerful diplomacy tool to contain hunger-induced discontent that, it feared, could...

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Time to speak for liberalism

NewsBoat.in - September 26, 2021 0

The world has changed since the Prime Minister of India last made an important foreign visit. The pandemic grounded him. In that time...

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September 25, 1981, Forty Years Ago: Kampuchea Question

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Prime Minister Indira Gandhi strongly defended the decision to recognise the Heng Samrin government in Kampuchea. Addressing a press conference in Jakarta, she...

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India dithered over projecting naval power. Now it’s been pushed to the sidelines of the Indo-Pacific

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Pandas reproduce less when things get too good. Life, it turns out, is about the challenges

NewsBoat.in - September 23, 2021 0

Sometimes, the porridge needs to be too hot (or too cold), for there to even be a third bear. It turns out —...

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NEET encroaches on state power, skews field in favour of privileged

NewsBoat.in - September 22, 2021 0

India is a federal country; the Indian Constitution distributes the legislative field of education among both states and the Union. The establishment (incorporation),...

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All five Scandinavian countries now have centre-left govts. But the right hasn’t been reduced to irrelevance

NewsBoat.in - September 21, 2021 0

Since at least 2016 — a year which saw the unexpected election of Donald Trump as US president and Britain voting to exit...

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An insecure nationalism has taken hold

NewsBoat.in - September 20, 2021 0

The announcement that August 14 would be the day to remember the horrors of Partition is a manifestation of a new idea of...