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Have electoral bonds made a bad system worse?

In disallowing voters from knowing the identity of donors, the scheme is even more opaque now

The little girl stands among people to pay homage to Babasaheb Ambedkar on his 63rd death anniversary at Kandivali in Mumbai on December 6, 2019.

Lessons from Ambedkar

NOTEBOOK | From ‘Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram’ to ‘Operation Lotus’

P. Raman How the meaning and nature of defections have changed over time

Restoring a secular notion of citizenship

Prasenjit Bose The claim that Bengali Hindus excluded in the National Register of Citizens in Assam would get citizenship through the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 is patently false

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A road map for criminal justice reforms

A fix for growth gain from fiscal pain

A case for abjuring custodial interrogation

The victory of pluralism

A time-tested way to trade away conflict

When breaking news is not enough

Greening the powerhouses

Climate change is still not integral to the planning of Indian cities and towns, despite the risks it poses

What can India do to overcome the global slowdown?

Strengthening the manufacturing industry and increasing domestic demand are key imperatives

The dominant caste dilemma

The BJP forces dominant castes to moderate their posture to aggregate weaker sections; the Congress is still learning

Not green, but greenwash

Technological solutions cannot combat ecological challenges

Restoring maritime commons

India and China must aspire to ensure that Asia’s seas are not arenas of contestation

In Haryana, it’s BJP versus the rest

The Assembly election verdict will indicate the political future of State-based parties

The operative word must be bilateralism

Using their convergence of perception on many issues, India and the U.S. can work closely in reshaping the global order

After the storm, an eerie calm in Tamil politics

The rambunctious rivalry between the DMK and the AIADMK is no longer visible

Nobel’s literary constraints

Despite the perception that it has limited vision, the Swedish Academy has introduced the world to new writers

For a wider food menu

Dependence on a few crops has negative consequences for ecosystems and health

A cost-effective way to power generation

Creating generation assets with the lowest unit cost is linked to optimising plant capacities and using private investment

A Turkish misadventure

Turkey’s military intervention in Syria can have wide-ranging consequences beyond the war zone

Framing laws for outer space

It is imperative that India’s legal prowess be applied to the situational complexities of space exploration

Is India still a minimally decent society?

A fundamentally decent people, Indians may be irretrievably sunk if not put on moral red alert

Looking beyond the Rafale

Even as the Indian Air Force gets ready to welcome its new acquisitions, ad hocism should give way to strategic thinking

Redirecting money from the Gulf

Kerala has an overdose of mansions and cars; what it needs is investment in job-creating ventures

The optimism of the will

For the idea of ‘breaking silos’ to take off, the newspaper need diverse participation from readers

A lodestar to steer the economy

Instead of critiquing Nehruvian socialism, the BJP should embrace the Rao-Singh economic architecture

Towards an Asian Century

As the West re-evaluates ties with China and India, there is an opportunity for a ‘grand bargain’ at Mamallapuram

Murder without mayhem: Chilling facts behind the Koodathayi killings

Jolly Joseph, a resident of Koodathayi village in Kozhikode district, has confessed to plotting and killing six family members, including a two-year-old, over more than a decade. Mohamed Nazeer pieces together the chilling facts behind the tragedy.

Information is not easy to seek

Patience and perseverance are required to get information under the RTI

Do we need a countrywide National Register of Citizens?

The NRC process has an Assam-specific history. Extending it to the rest of the country is bizarre

The Congress is beyond repair

Only if the party is replaced by another political formation can an alternative to the BJP emerge.

In Mamallapuram, seeking the true north in ties

The India-China informal summit is another opportunity for both leaders to reset relations in an era of geostrategic flux

For a happy childhood

India requires multiple interventions to prevent mental health disorders among adolescents

In Kashmir, opening a Pandora’s Box

The protests triggered by Imran Khan’s UN speech show that the current quietude is deceptive

The minimum wage solution

While indexation of the NREGA wages is critical, lifting them to the minimum wage would help workers and the economy

Affirmative action at the crossroads

The Harvard undergraduate admissions case has elements that strongly resonate with the Indian reservation debate

Maintaining the India-China stride length

Wuhan was meant to stabilise India-China ties at a time of major global changes; the basic understanding must continue

A life in the balance

India has other options to seek enforcement of the ICJ’s verdict in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case

Towards a strategic partnership

The exchanges between India and Mexico this week represent an opportunity to strengthen bilateral ties

Rethinking water management issues

NITI Aayog’s strategy for water resources is a continuation of failed policies of the past

Criticism is not sedition

The threat of sedition leads to unauthorised self-censorship and has a chilling effect on free speech

Acts of violence, acts of grace

During Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary year, India has an opportunity to show its humane side

A road to economic revival runs through agriculture

The current growth slowdown is an ideal time to implement doable agricultural reforms

Rethinking college recruitment

Underlying problems need to be addressed before the tenure track system is introduced in the IITs

A bitter brew: For Sri Lanka’s tea estate workers, fair wage is still elusive

Often described as the backbone of the economy, close to 1.5 lakh tea estate workers have been agitating for fair wages for the last three years. Ahead of Sri Lanka’s presidential election in November, which the labourers see as another season of empty promises, Meera Srinivasan reports on how they view their struggle

NEET case

The manner in which the NEET impersonation case is unravelling speaks volumes about the extent of the slack in security arrangements at examination

Discourse shift

Objectivity becomes a casualty when political commentary and economic analysis are scaffolded on ideological opposition (Editorial page, “Decoding the

The multilingual advantage

It helps to speak in many tongues to get authentic reporting done

All creatures great and small

It has become clear that the welfare of humans and other animals is closely interlinked

Co-operative banks: Is dual regulation the problem?

Coming under both RBI and State Registrars, these banks pose specific supervisory challenges

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The burns ward of New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital where the Unnao rape survivor was admitted on December 5, 2019.

23K | Unnao rape victim succumbs to burn injuries at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital

The bodies of the accused are being shifted from the spot near Hyderabad on December 6, 2019.

34K | Hyderabad vet rape, murder: uneasy calm in village of 3 of the 4 accused shot dead by police

16K | Why did the Brahmins become vegetarian? B.R. Ambedkar asks in this excerpt from ‘Beef, Brahmins and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables’

Cyderabad Commissioner of Police V.C. Sajjanar addresses the media at the spot on December 6, 2019.

35K | Hyderabad 'killing by police': IPS officer Sajjanar led similar police action in 2008 in Warangal

Locals commend the police officer who shot dead the four culprits accused of Disha's rape and murder, in Chatanpally near Hyderabad on Friday.

34K | Hyderabad vet rape and murder accused death: Must wait for magisterial inquiry outcomes, says Cong.

The clues team recover the pistol snatched by one of the accused from police at the shootout site, near Hyderabad on December 6, 2019.

570K | All four accused in Hyderabad vet rape and murder case shot dead

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Rajya Sabha on December 5, 2019. Photo: RSTV/PTI

14K | ‘I don’t eat onions’ remark: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman rejects ‘elitist’ tag, cites Ujjwala, Jan Dhan

FILE - In this May 11, 2019 file photo, detained Chinese nationals, accused of involvement in a trafficking gang to lure Pakistani women into fake marriages, try to shield their faces while they are escorted by Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency officers to court in Lahore, Pakistan. The Associated Press has obtained a list, compiled by Pakistani investigators determined to break up trafficking networks, that identifies hundreds of girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. But the biggest case against traffickers fell apart in October, when a court in Faisalabad acquitted 31 Chinese nationals charged in connection with trafficking. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

91K | 629 Pakistanis sold as brides in China

34K | Filmmaker Daniel Shravan draws flak on social media for weird comments on rape