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Meet ‘Syeda X’: The everyday woman you don’t see
India’s informal sector occupies interstate migrants working in precarious conditions for lower wages, with inadequate legal and social support mechanisms. The vulnerability was exposed during the COVID-19 lockdown when thousands of migrant…
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Hassan Nasrallah: Decades-long power struggle in Middle East
Born in 1960, Lebanon (which was considered an idyllic and veritable heaven on earth), Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah grew up in a predominantly Armenian Sub-urb known as Bourj Hammoud, near the capital Beirut.…
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Online gambling: Mounting losses and mounting debt
“Nobody talks to me. I have a 96 lakhs debt on me. My mother is a teacher. She doesn’t talk to me. If something happens to me on the road, they will…
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Dwayne Bravo: Ultimate T20 strategist joins Kolkata Knight Riders
The flamboyant Dwayne Bravo may never be included in the same bracket as the legends of West Indies cricket such as Gary Sobers, Viv Richards and Clive Lloyd but the livewire all…
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PMLA: Supreme Court highlights concerns over arbitary actions by ED
Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih granted bail to former Tamil Nadu Minister of Electricity, Prohibition and Excise, Senthil Balaji in an alleged cash-for-jobs scam. Balaji was arrested in…
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Hansie Cronje’s Struggle with Money Addiction: Is It Time to Forgive Him?
Had Hansie Cronje been alive now, he would have celebrated his 55th birthday on Sep 25. Perhaps he would have been a well known cricket commentator and a television personality. He would…
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The Growing Threat to Free Speech in the Age of Social Media Titans
How safe is the information that you share in confidence on social media platforms with your friends and loved ones? How long does the data that you share remain on the electronic…
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STATUE BUILDING IN A HURRY
Within a month of its collapse, the Maharashtra Government has initiated a tendering process to build a new statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji on the Rajkot Fort in south Konkan coast and it…
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Which tune will Sri Lanka’s new President sing, Indian or Chinese?
Greetings poured in congratulating the newly elected President of Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, popularly known as ‘AKD’. The Marxist-Leninist leader was sworn in on Monday as the ninth President by the…
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India-Sri Lanka: Shared heritage and complex challenges
India-Sri Lanka relations date back to centuries. The bi-lateral relationships between the two nations are multifaceted. Language, religion, shared cultural heritage, and traditions play an important role in stitching the bond between…
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History of the birth of chess in India and its world wide proliferation
It is difficult to describe India’s extraordinary twin triumphs in the Chess Olympiad in mere words. Our young men and women have come out on top in a tournament in which 190…
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Ashwin is proving to be India’s trump card in his role of spin bowling all rounder
A cricket fan once remarked that Ravichandran Ashwin has as many blades in his game as a Swiss army knife has in its hilt. That is an apt way to describe the cricketer…
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Cost of control: Government fact-checking and fight for Free Speech
In February 2021, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting [MIB] proposed amendments to the Information Technology [IT] Act 2000 to enhance regulation on online content through Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics…
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Israel: From leading ‘exporter’ to ‘importer’ of arms
If Israel is really a leading exporter of the military equipment of the world where is the need for it to buy arms from India, which till sometimes back actually was among…
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Hyderabad psychologists urge reducing stigma around workplace stress
The death of a 23-year-old fresher at Ernst & Young (EY), just four months into her job, reportedly due to overwhelming workplace stress, has sparked widespread outrage, highlighting the toxic work culture…
