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Garbage dumped at Shivaji Cross Road, Shivaji Nagar. Photo : Bhagya Prakash K

Irregular door-to-door collection, roads and vacant spots turned into black spots, garbage collection point made into dumping sites, pourakarmikas for

The Package Live Chat: Mismanagement of waste management

How do we pick our next read? Is it based on what the critics say?

The Package Live chat: How reading about books affects readers' choices

The Union Cabinet has cleared the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016, banning commercial surrogacy in India. As per the 2009 Law Commission Report, the

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Bengaluru

What's your issue: Chat on Bengaluru roads

Driving or walking on the city roads is nothing less that crossing an obstacle course. The battered and bruised throughfares are full of potholes, some of them have so many that they have become 'bad reaches.' Why is the civic authority not able to fix the issue? Who is to be blamed for the bad roads that we have? What can and should be done to make our travel smoother and faster? Our panelists — Ashish Verma, Ashwin Mahesh and R.K. Mishra — joined us for a live chat to answer these and many oth

Bengaluru

What's your issue: chat on Bengaluru traffic

Today, traffic is undoubtedly the foremost concern of the residents of the city.

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Maruti Suzuki cars to be transported via Ganga

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Gadkari to lay foundation of multi-modal terminal at Varanasi and flag-off trial run at National Waterway-1.

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Live chat: All you need to know about GST

Why call it unified tax when Centre and State will be collecting GST? I am planning to buy a car. Will I pay more or less after GST comes to effect? Why is Tamil Nadu against GST while West Bengal is for it? Your questions on the proposed Goods and Services Tax were answered by Pramod Banthia Partner Indirect Tax, PwC, Suresh Seshadri, Business Editor, The Hindu, and Special Correspondent TCA Sharad Raghavan. <!-- function cil_launchLayer( num, divsrc, divheight, divwidth) { var scrollpo

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Live chat: How inclusive are places of worship in Tamil Nadu?

In recent times, Dalits in Nagapattinam district have 'threatened' to convert to Islam if they are not allowed to participate and perform temple rituals. This raises questions whether the state needs another movement on temple entry. Join us for a live chat with VCK's D. Ravi Kumar and our correspondent Udhav Naig. Here is the transcript: 4:53 The Hindu: Welcome to The Hindu's live chat on whether Tamil Nadu's worship places are inclusive. 4:53 The Hindu: We have with us today VCK's Ravikumar

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Live Chat with Bezwada Wilson, Magsaysay awardee

The winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2016 to fight against manual scavenging will answer your questions at 4 pm

Bengaluru

Chat on open spaces in Bengaluru

Open spaces are quietly disappearing in the city, and citizens are trying to protect them

On Friday, S. Swathi, a 24-year-old Infosys employee, was hacked to death as she sat waiting for a train at the Nungambakkam railway station.

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Live chat: Is Chennai turning unsafe for women?

Welcome to our live chat on the issue of women's safety in Chennai. On Friday, news emerged of the cold-blooded murder of five women — four of them under 30 — in the city, which is considered among the more safer places to stay in India. We have Ms. Akila R.S., an expert in human rights and family laws; Ms. Ramya Kannan, Chief of Bureau, Tamil Nadu; and correspondent Vivek Narayan who's covering the issue. Madhu Subbu: Do we have any information on his motive? Ramya Kannan: not yet. there are

National

Live chat: HIV through bad blood transfusions

4:57 p.m.: Welcome to The Hindu's live chat on HIV through contaminated blood transfusions. 4:58 p.m.: In the last 17 months alone, 2,234 persons across India have been infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while getting blood transfusions. The maximum number of such cases — 361 — was reported from Uttar Pradesh due to unsafe blood transfusion practices in hospitals. Read our article 5:00 p.m.: With us today, we have our Health and Science Editor Vidya Krishnan, Chapal Mehra, Senio