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March 25, 2024

PM Modi could swing Tesla to India

On March 15, the government announced a new scheme to promote investment in EVs. Any company willing to invest $500 million in a new manufacturing facility that begins production in three years…

The girl, her family and the accused

The time was ripe to kill the girl, Sanji Ram told his juvenile nephew on a cold January evening, according to a police report. The ritual had been performed and Asifa, an…
April 18, 2018

The Crime and the CoverUp

The first was the brutal gang rape of an eight year girl in Kathua district of Jammu. The minor girl belonged to the nomadic Bakerwal community of Jammu and Kashmir. The second…
April 18, 2018

Prevalence of piles

Piles or Haemorrhoids has become a common disease in Kashmir now with majority of the patients complaining about the issue. On an average scores of the patients visit to the Out Patients…
April 18, 2018
New Delhi: Women and children druing a dharna aganist rape incidents at Rajghat in New Delhi on Friday. PTI Photo (PTI4_13_2018_000116B)

When Kathua and Unnao Became Just ‘Incidents’

It is not a good day for a country when its Prime Minister dismisses two heinous incidents of rape and murder as casual “incidents” being “discussed since the past two days.” The…
April 17, 2018

Death penalty for rapists

Rape is one of the most heinous crimes that happen on this planet. And when the victim is a child, the act becomes more atrocious in its nature. The latest victim of…
April 17, 2018

Why did India wake up so late?

A bright looking eight-year old girl belonging to a Muslim nomadic tribe in Kashmir goes missing in the new year. On 17 January, her battered body is recovered from a forest in…
April 17, 2018

India’s counter revolution

In his incomplete work Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Ancient India, Dr BR Ambedkar credits Buddha and his teachings for laying the foundation of a revolution more than two millenniums ago. Buddha (died…
April 17, 2018

With or without Nawaz Sharif

Nawaz Sharif has been here before, most famously in 1999, when his government was overthrown by military dictator Pervez Musharraf and he was charged with attempted murder and the hijacking of a…
April 17, 2018

In Pakistan an Army raj without coup

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has had an ominous relationship with all six Chiefs of Army Staff that he has tenured with, including the four that he “handpicked” by superseding senior…
April 17, 2018
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