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Covid-19 and Indian Muslims
“It’s a matter of common decency. That’s an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is common decency.” — Albert Camus Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s seminal work, Death and Dying,...
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पुण्यतिथि विशेष: देश के प्रथम प्रधानमंत्री नेहरू के भारत रत्न चुने जाने की कहानी
सन् 1955 की गर्मियों में भारत के प्रथम प्रधानमंत्री जवाहरलाल नेहरू को उनकी खुद की सरकार द्वारा भारत रत्न देने की घोषणा की गई। नेहरू उस वक्त यानी 1955 की जून-जुलाई में यूरोप के दौरे...
Corona Corner
Covid-19 crisis: Indian political class needs to band, not to bicker
While it has handled the Corona pandemic well in statistical terms, India’s management of the subsequent migrant laborer crisis and the conduct of Indian political class, has been far from satisfactory. The great Indian ‘tu-tu, main-main’...
Corona Corner
Rebooting Ramadan for COVID-19 times: With tech but without Iftar parties
The lockdown edition of Ramadan 2020 in Islamic year of 1441 Hijri offers unique challenges and opportunities. For the first time perhaps, Ramadan in the midst of COVID-19, has a potential of fulfilling many obligations...
Opinion
‘The ruling class has always manipulated law and jurisprudence to criminalise the subaltern people’
‘Author’ Lalu Prasad Yadav — currently languishing in the Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi — considers himself in the league of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi, claiming...
Opinion
Why we need a special law to curb mob lynching
There is an urgent need to bring in a special law to deal with the menace of mob lynching. The special law dealing with the atrocities against the scheduled caste and scheduled tribes — the...
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Is Amit Shah making his presence felt in BCCI?
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Euphoria turns into confusion among Scindia supporters
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How a start-up from Kolkata saved the life of a leukemia patient from Bangladesh
Kolkata: Twenty-seven-year-old Rima Begum, a resident of Chittagong, Bangladesh, was diagnosed with Leukemia (blood cancer)almost a year back. Rima had lost all...
How an MLA single-handedly helped thousands of migrant workers across India
Ranchi: If you think that one person is not enough to make a difference, read on to know the power of one. A lot of...
Left with great expectations, in West Bengal
Kolkata: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) that ruled West Bengal for 34 years lost not only the seat of power but also its...
