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Mullaperiyar: Dam nuisance
A lifeline for Tamil Nadu is now life-threatening in Kerala. K.A. Shaji explores arguments for and against a new dam K.A. Shaji Published: 30 Aug 2026, 4:05 PM Ever heard of Colonel John Pennycuick? You’ll find a statue of him in faraway Surrey — donated by Tamil Nadu. It was the then M.K. Stalin government…
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The Wire Staff 11/Nov/2024 Retired commodore Tariq Majeed had claimed that it would be wrong to rename the square after the atheist and “terrorist” Bhagat Singh. New Delhi: After a retired Pakistani naval commodore stated that Bhagat Singh, being a revolutionary atheist, opposed Islamic ideology, Lahore’s city district government has reportedly shelved a plan to rename…
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The government has ambitious plans to build a shipping hub on the island. But are its native tribal communities on board? I travelled to the island to find out. Vaishnavi Rathore Nov 08, 2024 · 06:30 am About five years ago, John returned to the land he had left behind. As monsoons receded in Great…
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In the wake of Trump’s return to power, it’s time to ask difficult questions. Democracy as an idea and ideal needs to be distinguished from democracy as an actually existing form of government The dominant theory of democracy kept up the fiction that instances of democratic failure were exceptions to an otherwise benign global tide…
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Amit Baruah 12/Nov/2024 For someone who has been in the business of journalism for four decades, the 11:13 am stop at Kilinochchi is the stuff of suppressed excitement and a rush of adrenaline. Kilinochchi station. Photo: Amit Baruah Jaffna: Kilinochchi, Elephant Pass, Jaffna – these names play out in my head more than a quarter century…
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The pandemic may have undone decades of work in controlling teen pregnancies, shows a Behanbox analysis: at least 7% of all women aged 15-19 years began child-bearing in 2019-21, according to the latest round of National Family Health Survey. This is only a marginal decline since 2015, when the figure stood at nearly 8%. Up to 5% of the…
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