Journalist Prashant Jha and activist-journalist Shyam Shrestha comment on the latest "agreement" between the top political players in Nepal paving the way for a Chief Justice led interim government before elections are held for a fresh Constituent Assembly.

Newsclick hosts selected news features of students from AJK MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia University.

Team sports get step motherly treatment as opposed to individual sports by Sports Authority of India. Because they fetch more medals report Ronnie Jos, Reema Behl and Rohit Pandita

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Bouthaina Shaaban, Political and Media Advisor to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, addressed a talk hosted by the Centre for Policy Analysis on the Syrian crisis. Newsclick presents the video of the talk. Shaaban says there are multifaceted factors responsible for the crisis. She says the expulsion of Syria from the Arab League has caused huge damage. The arming of Syrian rebels has still not abated. Every passing day is a tragedy with 2 million people already displaced, thousands killed and many more orphaned. Syria is being infused with sectarian beliefs and language, which is destroying the secular foundations of the system. Shaaban sees in Syrian crisis a whole design for the entire region. She hopes countries like India would be more pro-active at the upcoming BRICS meeting in South Africa in pressing for a non-military intervention in Syria.

The news from Mississippi of an HIV-positive baby being 'cured' has once again started discussions around the plausibility of a breakthrough. Dr. Satyajit Rath discusses with Newsclick the reasons which are possibly behind what is termed as 'functionally cured.' He suggests that treating infection early on when the baby is exposed to it is almost like prevention. But since there is no accurate way of knowing when an adult is exposed to HIV, can the approach used in the baby's case be of any significance to the adult community infected with HIV?

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India ranks 17th as an international child marriage hotspot. Sneha Gusain, Sana Amir and Salma Rehman report how social stigma amongst rural and urban poor subjects young girls to child marriage.

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Newsclick discusses with Shankar Raghuraman, Senior Journalist, the election results in three North-Eastern states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya. He says the results are a bad news for the Congress Party. Its influence is gradually declining in this region which was its traditional stronghold. Tripura has elected the Left Front to power for the fifth consecutive term, largely because of the participatory politics it practised. The Naga People's Front has won the majority in Nagaland and in Meghalaya, the Congress Party got the majority.

Newsclick discusses with economist Surajit Mazumdar the Union Budget 2013-14 and other related aspects.

In many parts of the country today, manual scavenging is as routine a thing as bathing is to us. Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan is one of the few nationwide campaigns aiming to eradicate this practice and abolish untouchability and other caste-based discrimination that stem from it.

Newsclick hosts selected news features of students from AJK MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia University. Over 2000 people have died during clinical drug trials in the last four years in India but only 22 have been compensated. A report by Sana Amir, Salma Rehman and Zainab Sayeed.

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