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Labouring to keep alive
Unskilled migrant workers rarely get their dues. It’s time to amend our labour laws.
Knock-outs, knocks
Mass popularity must follow excellence in sports — not the other way round. And our boxers know that.
Labour’s love lost
 For the preparation of the Commonwealth Games 2010, around Rs 17,400 crore have been spent on Delhi by the government over the past three years, writes Harsh Mander.
A legal shield for him & her
Justice maybe a long time coming, but the heartening thing is that the law in India is constantly evolving to plug loopholes and correct imbalances.
A noteworthy affair
The BSP has shown great innovation and dexterity in garland-making. Let’s hope others cash in on this.
Open sesame in academia
Foreign investment in higher education affects the 160,000 Indians who go abroad every year to study less than the 14 million who study at home. It affects even more those nine kids who don’t make it to college for every one that does.
Oh, we frisky lot
Remember how in April 2009, VVIPs went into a tizzy when former President APJ Abdul Kalam was frisked by the staff of an American airlines at Delhi airport before boarding a US-bound flight?
SIT up and take notice
The hysteria that normally accompanies any move to bring about political accountability has been refreshingly absent following the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) summons to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to depose before it.
It’s back to front
Can a pilot ever forget to connect with the local Air Traffic Control before landing or taking off?
Let’s play it fair & square
So then it would be a reasonable assumption that the real issue is that of power and the need to hold on to it at all cost.
City of blights
Eat your heart out Mumbai, Delhi has topped the show in the Liveability Index among all Indian cities in a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Institute for Competitiveness (IFC) survey.
Now to make the Bill work
For 14 long years, the Women’s Reservation Bill has been one of the most controversial and bitterly contested legislations.
Cut out the middlemen
The CPI(Maoist) has been largely successful in convincing mainstream India that its cause is inextricably linked to the cause of the downtrodden and dispossessed.
Lennon Unlimited
It’s interesting how rock music, even at its shiniest, well-packaged best, is automatically seen as an anti-establishment entity.
A surge from New Delhi
An overly simple dichotomy dominates the present debate over India’s policy towards Pakistan, and by extension, Afghanistan. One school argues that dialogue is essential, that it makes no sense not to talk to Pakistan.
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