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Biswa-Bangla goes global
2019-02-16T21:30:30+05:30The fifth edition of Bengal Global Business Summit attracted business tycoons from across the country and globe, reminding audiences once again that Bengal means business
Big Brother Is Watching You
2019-02-09T21:22:09+05:30The Union government notification allowing extensive State surveillance of personal information is a black patch on the promises of equality, privacy and freedom
Right to dissent
2019-02-02T19:17:17+05:30Sedition, despite its primitivity, continues to find its place in the Indian Constitution – largely because it has been the trusted weapon of those in power to silence difficult critics
Darker stories of the fairer sex
2019-01-26T18:30:38+05:30Slogans like ‘Beti Bachao’ and ‘New India’ seem rhetorical, at least in Haryana, where gruesome sexual offences have cast a dark shadow on promises of progress and equality in society.
Reduced to ashes
2019-01-19T21:35:26+05:30Fire outbreaks in India's most-developed metropolises have claimed several lives and destroyed property worth millions – all due to inadequate urban planning
Secularism Annihilated
2019-01-12T20:04:15+05:30A classic Indian conundrum debating the binaries of religion and rationality, the Sabarimala conflict has revealed the essential bigotry pervasive across our population
Food for whom?
2019-01-05T21:36:28+05:30Though India’s mid-day meal scheme extends ambitious goals, its implementation, over the years, has been fraught with challenges in maintaining quality, hygiene and health
INDIA @ 2018
2018-12-29T20:43:46+05:30As another year of action and inaction draws to an end, we revisit the most-gripping headlines that shaped India’s calendar year — from the emphatic strike down of Section 377 to the pitiable Kathua rape — the journey has escalated through defined contours of pride and shame
BUSTED: Uncovering illicit drug networks
2018-12-22T20:59:15+05:30Selling illicit drugs, transporting narcotics and peddling psychedelics has grown as an exciting avenue for traffickers to hoodwink enforcement agencies and make several lakhs by dragging vulnerable youth into a web of dangerous addiction
Rethinking juvenile Delinquency
2018-12-15T20:02:35+05:30Despite several theoretical modifications in law, juvenile justice in India continues to be shackled by an inadequate understanding of rehabilitation and reformation as against mere retribution
Carnival of Cinemas
2018-12-08T19:11:54+05:30In its 24th edition, the Kolkata International Film Festival witnessed a complete celebration of cinema – drawing across time, language, geography and genre.
MODERNITY'S NEMESIS
2018-12-01T19:12:53+05:30In our race to create a glitzy society, we have ignorantly nurtured an unhappy community – with projected 26 crore silent sufferers by 2020, mental health illness today stands as the optimal threat to India’s development
