PTI PHOTO Patna: At Least 32 Feared Dead in a Stampede at Gandhi Maidan PATNA | OCT 03, 2014 Thirty-two people, most of them women and children, were killed and several injured in a stampede that broke out this evening at… Continue Reading →
RUKMINI S. What new data shows on the political choices of India’s internet users Earlier, I looked at a great new study by political scientists Rahul Verma and Shreyas Sardesai on the link between media exposure and political choice. They found that… Continue Reading →
V Narayan & Sumitra Deb Roy, TNN | Sep 29, 2014, MUMBAI: The daughter of a government official has approached police commissioner Rakesh Maria alleging that doctors at Sion Hospital unnecessarily subjected her to a detailed medico-legal examination when she merely wanted… Continue Reading →
By KATIE THOMAS, AGUSTIN ARMENDARIZ and SARAH COHENSEPT. 30, 2014 Pharmaceutical and device makers paid doctors roughly $380 million in speaking and consulting fees, with some doctors reaping over half a million dollars each, during a five-month period last year, according to an analysis… Continue Reading →
Official Poster “Haider” To release or not to release: that is the question being raised by the Pakistan Censorship board about the Indian film Haider based on Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Although Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider is getting raving reviews after its premiere in India, it… Continue Reading →
ADITI NIGAM Swachh Bharat and caste-based oppression cannot co-exist As Prime Minister Narendra Modi regales the Indian diaspora in the US, his ministers are wielding brooms and queuing up for photo-ops. That’s their way of showing commitment to the “Swachh… Continue Reading →
MOHIT M. RAO PTILakshmi and Chandravati, widows from an SC community, perform ‘aarti’ at the Sri Gokarnanatha Kshetra in Kudroli, Mangalore, on Monday. Lakshmi and Chandravati become priests in 102-year-old Kudroli temple A year after the appointment of widows as… Continue Reading →
The Huffington Post UK | By Rachel Moss In the UK, we tend not to bat an eyelid if we see a person taking a selfie – but that’s certainly not the case in other parts of the world. Police in India have said… Continue Reading →
The members of this Indian cultural troupe have been harassed, jailed and branded Maoists, but they stay true to their vision of an equal society By Suparna Dutt D’CunhaSpecial to Weekend Review Published: 21:30 September 25, 2014 Image Credit: Supplied… Continue Reading →
RAMYA KANNAN SRUTHISAGAR YAMUNAN Doctors suggest sexual education as part of premarital counselling instead It started as a hearing of a husband’s petition to quash an FIR that his wife had filed against him for domestic violence, in the Madurai… Continue Reading →
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