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  • "Superbug" Controversy: Concerns & Debates

    Recently, The Lancet, world's leading medical journal, named new 'superbug' after New Delhi and warned foreigners against medical treatment in India. It has led to controversies among the medical fraternity and confusion among people.
    Dr. Satyajit Rath explains that what are the real concerns and issues involved.

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  • Negotiating Multiple Identities: An Exclusive Interview with Tabish Khair

    Tabish Khair, author of various books including poetry collection, an academic, political commentator and winner of many literary awards in an exclusive interview with Newsclick.

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  • Illegal Mining in Karnataka: Truth Behind All Lies

    The issue of large scale illeagal mining and export of iron ore has rocked the Karnataka Legislature and the Parliment for past few months. But it seems that like many others scams in our country this one will also go unexposed. Senior Jounalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta tells the truth behind all lies.

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  • (Un)Common Wealth and Games

    From IPL scam to Commonwealth Games controversy, level of corruption has gone one notch up. Surely the country is progressing! Instead of bringing glory for India, Commonwealth Games controversies have put India to shame.
    Senior Journalist Shankar Raghuraman discusses the issue with Newsclick.

     

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Our News

  • What is Peepli Live About?

    Sudhanva Deshpande, Newsclick, August 25, 2010

    Peepli Live is a remarkable film for many reasons, the least of which is that it deals with farmers’ suicides.

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  • Dangerous Repeat of History

    Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick

     History is repeating itself in West Bengal, with Maoists, the Trinamool and the Congress doing what they had done in the late 60's and early 70's. And it will not be history repeating...

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  • David Cameron: Hard Selling Aircraft and Soft Selling the Host

    Newsclick Report, August 7, 2010

    David Cameron, the British Prime Minister visited India recently. His visit caused much more of a flutter in Pakistan than in India. They are still livid with his statement in Delhi that...

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  • Learning from Bhopal

    D.Raghunandan, Newsclick 14 June 2010

    The Bhopal verdict has exposed the soft ugly underbelly of the entire Indian judicial, regulatory, administrative and corporate governance systems, not to mention the scandalous behaviour of...

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  • Bhopal Judgment: An Insult to the Memory of Thousands Who Died

    AIPSN Statement, 12 June, 2010

    26 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster in the city of Bhopal killed over 20,000 people and caused serious disability to hundreds of thousands of others, a Bhopal Court on...

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  • India EU Free Trade Agreement

    Amitayu Sen Gupta, Newsclick, 02 June, 2010

    The ongoing India EU FTA has far reaching consequences for the agricultural sector and its production for both the partners. To...

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Web News

  • Book Review: Alladi Memorial Lecture

    N. R. Madhava Menon, The Hindu, December 2009

    Alladi Memorial Lecture is collection of essays on Constitutional law and related matters by eminent jurists and academicians.

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  • Austerity of Panic

    Seema Mustafa, The frontpage

    It is strange what happens to the Congress party every time it hits an obstacle. The party managers, or should one say Sonia Gandhi managers, hit the panic button and go into a senseless...

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  • The masks are off

    J Sri Raman, The Frontpage, 11 September 2009

     

    It is tragic-comic to see the traumatising effect of the Jaswant episode on the same purveyors of jejune punditry. It is excruciatingly entertaining to hear them...

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  • Flying frogs and the world's oldest mushroom: a decade of Himalayan discovery

      Felicity Carus, The Guardian, 10 August 2009

    A pretty ultramarine blue flower which changes colour in response to temperature, a flying frog and the world's oldest mushroom preserved in amber are among the 350 new species discovered in...

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  • Big quake hits off India's Andamans, no tsunami

    Sanjit Kumar Roy, Reuters, 11 August 209

    A major earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck in the Indian Ocean off India's Andaman Islands early on Tuesday, but a tsunami alert for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh was later...

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  • The Real Sell Out

    J.Sri Raman, The Frontpage, 22 July 2009

    New Delhi is under pressure to get its nuclear act together in time for US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's scheduled visit to India on July 20-21. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's...

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