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A Super act

Action hero Akshay Kumar dons a new role in real life as the ‘Goodheart Ambassor’ for a Mumbai based hospital that wants to support children and senior citizens suffering from heart ailment

Case against Rajapakse

The widow of a LTTE leader, ‘Col. Ramesh’, has filed a case in the Southern District of New York, against the visiting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse for killing her husband

Peace Talks

Join actor Nandita Das, National Advisory Council member Harsh Mander, and Prof. Shiv Visvanathan, who will be suggesting ways to prevent communal violence at a meeting in Mumbai

Bus class

It is a school on wheels. Chalta Firta School is just a yellow bus that has been taking slum kids in Delhi on a journey to a successful future since 2008 and has already put over 100 of them back in regular schools, says Mohita Nagpal

Needed, policy change

The US Congress Report that praised Narendra Modi has also criticised India’s “fence sitting” and “hands off” foreign policy. It states that New Delhi acts too timidly on the global stage

Deepening debate

The Save Tamils Movement is organising a hall meeting in Chennai to discuss the war crimes of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse

 
Wastage stopped

Karnataka government has taken a sensible decision in denying permission to organisers of ‘tomatoes festival’ in Bangalore and Mysore, who wanted to have ‘fun’ by hurling tomatoes on the road

Battle cry

IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt tells Modi: I have principle and no power, You have power and no principle, You being you And I being I Compromise is out of the question, So let the battle begin

Get aggressive

China has been getting away with its incursions and bullying tactics against India for too long. It is high time India woke up and frames an aggressive foreign policy, says M G Devasahayam

Campaign for a cause

Human rights activist Binayak Sen has vowed to mobilise one million signatures during a nationwide campaign he plans to undertake for demanding the scrapping of the colonial sedition law

Call for debate

While we fought for Parliament’s supremacy in making laws in the context of the Lokpal Bill, a situation is emerging over the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India bill to force a debate

Vendors venture

Reaching out to roadside vendors and giving them dignity is the objective of Streets India. Its founder, Tanishk Shyamya, tells us how the project has given hope to BPL families in Jharkhand

 
Twist in case

BJP MP Tarun Vijay has come under the police scanner in RTI activist Shehla Masood’s murder case as phone records show he had been in touch with her, even as demand for CBI probe grows louder

Point of view

The Jan Lokpal bill is a "regressive piece of legislation" and Anna Hazare has been "used as a prop by foreign-funded NGOs" to lead the anti-corruption movement, says Arundhati Roy

More good news

Adding strength to the fast growing democratic movement against Team Anna, former Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde has urged Anna Hazare to refrain from dictating terms to Parliament

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