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Highlights

Rights

What Happened to India’s Moral Compass on Palestine?

22 Jul

Politics

Elected to Power, Powerless in Srinagar: The Long Wait For the Restoration of J&K's Statehood

22 Jul

Just In

Education

'A Quiet Crisis': Deepak Nayyar on the State of Higher Education in India

Professor Deepak Nayyar speaks on pressing questions, challenges and concerns over higher education in India.

Education

Books

When Vajpayee Chose to Fall in Line After Godhra

It proved that Vajpayee was admitting Modi’s culpability but he just could not find the courage to sack him.

Books

Security

Why India’s Policing System Is Failing Its Citizens

Overall, the picture is one of severe under-staffing of civil police and massive gaps in infrastructure.

Security

The Sciences

Video of Earth’s Surface Lurching Sideways in an Earthquake Teaches Us New Things

What we’re seeing is the propagation of a large earthquake rupture – the primary mechanism that accommodates plate boundary motion at Earth’s surface.

The Sciences

South Asia

A Partitioned Subcontinent Comes Together in Stockholm

A one-day workshop was aimed at a dialogue at a time when South Asian nation-states dominated by renewed India-Pakistan conflict have intensified “us vs them” rhetorical salvos.

South Asia

Environment

The Eye-Opening Science of Close Encounters With Polar Bears

It's a pretty risky business trying to take a blood sample from a polar bear – one of the most dangerous predators on the planet – on an Arctic ice floe.

Environment

Media

White House Drops 'Wall Street Journal' From Scotland Press Pool Over Epstein Report

On Friday, Trump sued the Wall Street Journal and its owners for $10 billion in damages for causing "overwhelming" financial and reputational harm.

Media

The Bonn summit deliberations are usually not smooth. The discord has increased over the past few years ever since the transfer of funds for climate change from developed to developing countries has gained prominence.

Environment

bihar electoral rolls revisions