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Bharat Bandh News LIVE Updates: Rahul Gandhi has joined strikes in Bihar called "chakka jam" to protest against the new labour code and special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar. The strike, which began Tuesday midnight has received strong support from trade unions and Left-leaning organisations in the CPI(M)-ruled Kerala and a widespread participation is observed from closure of public transport to government offices.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party's "Jaha Jhuggi Waha Makaan" manifesto promised affordable housing to Delhi's slum dwellers, but for many, that promise remains unfulfilled.
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This isn’t to say these regimes aren’t oppressive and have not tortured their people, especially women, but to impose a war on their country invoking the brutal regime and making a case for bombings is to undermine people’s ability to question and collectivise on their own. We know from history how many countries have been abandoned, like Afghanistan
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As missiles fall silent—for now—it’s time to explore whether the heart of the Iran-Israel conflict lies in a deeper battle over culture and values
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Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu now seems out of control. The 12-day Iran-Israel war, backed by Big Daddy US, proves that
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Where do Israel, Iran and the US go from here? Will there be permanent peace or is this just a lull before a storm?
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Policies—whether in the West or in the Muslim world—are imposed on women, not developed with them or for them. How they dress becomes shorthand for community honour, nationalism or piety
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The US has zero moral authority to want to tell the Tehran regime to behave itself or be nice to its own people
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The Iranian constitution is instrumental in giving an ideological and political base for the theocratic state, notwithstanding recurrent internal unrest, economic hardships and wars fought over the last four-and-a-half decades
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Iranian dissidents—who once defied the Shah and then the clerics—have united against foreign attacks and have called for a new vision of freedom and unity
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Modern warfare is a shape-shifting entity and the information explosion has expanded the battlespace far beyond the battlefield
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Not the conservative ‘red’ as Zohran Mamdani is a democratic socialist
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Political parties in Bihar are looking to woo women voters—who constitute almost half of the vote bank—ahead of the state Assembly election
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Mahesh Raut, a TISS alumnus and rights activist working for Adivasis and marginalised communities, was arrested in June 2018 in the Bhima-Koregaon Maoist conspiracy case and has since been incarcerated in jail
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Book bans are about fear, control and the desperate need to manage public imagination
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Guru Dutt, whose birth centenary falls this July, created cinematic masterpieces amid the fog of his own uncertainty
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This novel is a flawed, luminous, maximalist love letter to Kolkata’s layered soul
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Our worst algorithms have come home to haunt us. The nightmare is no longer something we dream up. It is dreamt on our behalf
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As children, we didn’t quite understand what was happening but we knew something was amiss.Only later did I understand what not seeing eye to eye meant.
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In Haryana, a woman who was reported as missing by her husband was reported to have been gang-raped in Panipat. After being thrown on train tracks she lost her leg.
Priya had moved to Yemen in 2011 to work as a nurse. In order to open a medical clinic, which requires a Yemeni partner under local law, she entered a business partnership with Talal Abdo Mehdi. However, their professional relationship reportedly deteriorated over time.
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On his fourth death anniversary, remembering Dilip Kumar, who shaped the contours of the hero for commercial Hindi cinema.
On his birth centenary, a lookback through Guru Dutt's life and work.
Saira Banu penned a touching note for her late husband, legendary actor Dilip Kumar on his 4th death anniversary.
On Chetan Anand’s death anniversary, remembering Neecha Nagar, which has stood the test of time, 79 years on.
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Raj’s legacy has been ever enriching. Five decades in filmmaking is indeed a long innings, but he didn’t get featured in media like others.
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