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Sandipan Talukdar
Climate Change: A Catalyst for Armed Conflicts?
20 Jun 2019
A recent study published in Nature has estimated that the influence of climate on conflict would increase by more than five times, leading to a substantial increase of chance in conflict by 26%.
Saurabh Sharma
Spare Dying Kids from Insensitive Reporting
20 Jun 2019
The tragedy unfolding in Muzaffarpur has been turned into a sensationalised TV serial.
Ronak Chhabra
Indian Railways Planning to Invite Private Players to Run Trains
19 Jun 2019
This is in contradiction to the statements of two Union Railway Ministers of the NDA, who had previously ruled out the possibility of privatisation of the Indian Railways.
PTI
Noida TV Channel Scribes Granted Bail in Defamation Case
19 Jun 2019
One of the FIRs was lodged under Sections 153 (promoting enmity between different groups), 501 (printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory), 505 [1] (Whoever makes, publishes or circulates…
Subodh Varma
Muzaffarpur: Why the Tragedy Was Foretold
19 Jun 2019
National Health Mission budget shows the callous indifference that led to 126 child deaths in 19 days.
Ravi Kaushal
No Anti-national Activity in Campus, Says UP Govt's New Ordinance on Private Universities
19 Jun 2019
Academics from different universities in the state argue that the ordinance fails to understand the basic tenets of any university and undermines individual freedom and autonomy.
Newsclick Report
Pro-Democracy Defenders, Land and Environmental Activists Most Unsafe in Asia, Says Report
19 Jun 2019
A recent report from the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development says the Asian continent continues to be a dangerous hub for Human Rights Defenders (HRDs).
Ditsa Bhattacharya
Thousands of Construction Workers Protest in Jind, Haryana
19 Jun 2019
Their key demand is that the BOCWW board should ensure that the workers could also complete the process offline, as the department has not updated the previous records of the workers, and the…
Newsclick Report
Simultaneous Polls Anti-federal, Anti-democratic: CPI(M)
19 Jun 2019
The CPI(M) circulated a note among the heads of political parties at a meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the "One Nation, One Election" issue on June 19.
Subhash Gatade
How Many More 'Halal' Ponzi Schemes?
19 Jun 2019
It is important to note that the very idea of Islamic banking and promoting it as a parallel to conventional banking – which is being portrayed as un-Islamic – and which has caught the imagination of…