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Maoists are deserting the ranks of the Left-extremist outfit CPI (Maoists) from all sections of the cadre. Are they lured by the amnesty and inducements that the government’s surrender policy offers? Or is there a larger game plan designed to secure the position of the new top man, Basavaraju, in…
Sivachandran hailing from Ariyalur district in Tamil Nadu was amongst the 40 CRPF personnel killed in a deadly suicide bomb attack By Sudhakar Balasundaram The son of a coolie worker, Sivachandran studied hard, well aware that his father Chinnaiyan was struggling to educate him on a meagre income. After completing…
Family of CRPF jawan Vasanthakumar says they are proud of him “We are proud to say that my brother Vasanthakumar has laid down his life for the motherland. We all are proud of him.” These were the words of Sajeevan, brother of Vasanthakumar VV, who was one among the 42…
A phone call to his wife on Thursday evening and death by a suicide bombing attack later that night He spoke to his young wife Krishnaveni at around 2.30 pm on Thursday. By nightfall, his phone was switched off, leaving his family wondering what had happened. The dreaded call came…
As antimicrobial resistance threatens to turn even a mild scratch into a life threatening illness, everyone can do their bit to stave off the problem Global thought leaders have come up with a series of steps that, if implemented jointly by people and nations, can drastically reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR).…
The Bill to amend an Act that would allow NRIs to vote by proxy has lapsed, leaving Indians abroad in the lurch once again A long-standing demand of some 31 million non-resident Indians (NRIs) to get voting rights will not be fulfilled in this coming general election either, as the…
With the Congress having the ballot and a BJP leader as the Lieutenant Governor, the drama never ebbs On Wednesday, the people of Puducherry were witness to a slightly unusual form of protest, with Chief Minister V Narayanasamy sleeping on the street outside the Raj Nivas in a bid to…
The alarm bells are ringing shrilly on the need to tackle anti-microbial resistance which threatens to be the biggest killer in the world in three decades As foreseen by the father of antibiotics Alexander Fleming way back in 1945, the world now has reached a critical point where the known…
An ongoing Tribunal in the UK will decide whether to make public classified files that detail British military support given to the Indira Gandhi government and the Indian Army during the 1984 attack on the Golden Temple. We may soon know new facts about the lead up to Operation Bluestar.…
