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Opinion: Akhilesh Yadav emerges as main challenger to BJP in UP polls
Kalyani Shankar By Kalyani Shankar Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has emerged as the primary challenger to the BJP for the February Assembly polls now that…
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Veteran journalist Rajappa passes away in Canada; he had served Statesman from Hyderabad
By A S Rao When I received a WhatsApp message this evening from P S Jayaram, my senior colleague and former chief of bureau in Deccan Chronicle, about the demise of veteran…
- Hyderabad
Secunderabad Club fire: By virtue of complacency, we are guilty of severe negligence
Zeenath Khan This morning, national news channels were ablaze with footage of the blaze that engulfed the Secunderabad Club. Overnight, a short circuit-induced fire destroyed most of the Club’s main building. By…
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Adieu Kamal, big thank you for keeping afloat the flag of professional, secular ethics
Kulsum Mustafa By Kulsum Mustafa Disbelief is a big hurdle in way of acceptance and that is why when you wish sabr or solace for the kin who have lost a dear…
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Khorana is ours too
Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy A DAWN article on Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011) threw me back 50 years when I, along with 600 other students had packed 26-100 (MIT’s largest lecture hall) to hear…
- India
Bhopal: Sportspersons up in arms against BMC for encroaching playground
By Pervez Bari Bhopal: Noted national and international hockey players of yesteryears in Bhopal, once known as “nursery of hockey”, who brought laurels to the country and Madhya Pradesh, are up in…
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Future of Murree as Pakistan’s premier hill resort is grim, says an expert
Fakir Syed Aijazuddin No one expects to go on holiday to see death at work. The carnage caused by the recent snowstorm in Murree, which trapped hundreds of eager tourists in their…
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A desi’s life in America for the past 50 years
Mustafa Ahsan Siddiqui By Mustafa Ahsan Siddiqui Everyone dreamed of living in America. It was referred to as the land of opportunity and employment. My father, Dr. Abul Hasan Siddiqui had a…
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Congress keeps promise, first poll list has 40 pc women candidates
Kulsum Mustafa By Kulsum Mustafa The Congress Party not only took the lead in being the first political party to release the list of candidates for the forthcoming assembly polls in Uttar…
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Why Muslims are in bad shape, time to introspect: Maulana Mujaddidi
By Pervez Bari Jaipur: Maulana Fazlur Raheem Mujaddidi, Rector of Jamea Tul Hidaya, Jaipur and Chairman, Abdul Rahim Educational Trust, while pointing out to decline of Muslims in all walks of life…
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Falling fertility rates
By Nahia Hussain and Amir Ullah Khan As per the National Family Health Survey released earlier this year, India’s fertility rate has fallen from 2.2 in 2015-16 to 2.0 in 2019-21. The…
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Why upcoming assembly elections in five states are crucial?
Kalyani Shankar By Kalyani Shankar Election Commission has sounded the poll bugle for Assembly elections to Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Punjab, Manipur, and Uttarakhand. BJP is ruling in four of the five states…
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Tantalizing not titillating—A whiff of bold narrative from Pakistan
M. Shafey Kidwai Despite being primarily perceived as a demonic, grotesque and religiously and socially deplorable way to seek hedonistic pleasure, promiscuity or voracious sexuality bolsters female power of self-assertion. It is…
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An open letter to MPs, MLAs
By Syed Rizwan Hon’able MPs & MLAs, Come elections and the fever is on to outstrip each other in vile nonsense by politicians of various hues, and over the past few decades,…
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Bulli Bai aims to stifle Muslim women who have broken stereotype shell
Kulsum Mustafa By Kulsum Mustafa New Year for over 100 progressive Muslim Indian women started with a shocking revelation – they were available for sale to the world on an online auction.…