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Jetindaera Arjanwara returned home to India Thursday after spending five years in two Pakistani jails. He had crossed over to Sindh in search of water in 2013. From Seoni district in Madhya Pradesh, Jetindaera was diagnosed with sickle…

Ever since he completed his term as Punjab governor in 2015, Shivraj Patil has been leading a quiet life. He is barely seen or heard though he is spotted occasionally at Delhi’s India International Centre. But he was pulled out of…

If the five-member Collegium of the Supreme Court, which includes the Chief Justice of India, decides that a certain judge has to be appointed, then its word is final and a contrary decision by the government will be considered malafide,…

Long objected to by Pakistan, the Rs 5,750-crore Kishanganga Hydro Electric Project is finally set to be inaugurated by PM Modi next month. The Indian Express traces the long road to this strategic project a few hundred metres from the Line…

Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister, West Bengal Dear Madam, We are a group of women journalists from states across India. We have noted with concern that on Monday, April 23, which was the last day of nomination for the…

South Asian Women in Media (India) condemns the attack on Meghalaya Journalist and Editor of the Shillong Times, Patricia Mukhim, whose home was targeted by unidentified assailants in Shillong with a petrol bomb on April 17th. While it is…

Change often comes unannounced, and the government’s foreign policy moves over the past few months represent an unannounced but profound shift in its thinking about the neighbourhood. This could change the course of Prime Minister Narendra…

By Radhika Ramaseshan With elections in sight, the Sangh’s pursuit of hawkish Hindutva is inescapable and real. And Modi knows well how to couch the terms of engagement with the RSS Only the credulous would dismiss Surendra Singh’s…

By Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal There are two predominantly visible strands in the heinous rape and murder case of 8-year-old Asifa. One is the perpetuation of the crime and the other is the discourse in defence of the culprits There are…

Phew! I’m no longer feeling like a Louis Vuitton knock-off. Thank you, Modiji, for promptly revoking the I & B mantri’s diktat against journos dispensing ‘fake’ news. The I-rani had    ordered ‘Cut off their accreditation’ which, in our…