#Politics | Karnataka’s loss is a huge jolt to its top leadership represented by PM Narendra Modi and Shah who relentlessly employed all kinds of strategies to win one state after another in large parts of the country, writes S.N. Sahu.
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Understanding 'BJP-Mukt Karnataka' from the North-South Perspective
Basavaraj Bommai getting voted out of Karnataka after BJP’s devastating defeat is a reaffirmation that people want governance based on an inclusive vision.
Recently, convicted gangster Mukhtar Ansari filed an application in a local court in UP asking the media not to use words like 'bahubali' and 'don' with his name. But how did these words become part of common parlance? https://t.co/p5vvoy4JEQ
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Why Are Criminals Called ‘Goonda', 'Mafia' or 'Don’?
Recently, convicted gangster Mukhtar Ansari filed an application in a local court in UP asking the media not to use words like 'bahubali' and 'don' with his name. But how did these words become part of common parlance?
The much-anticipated G20 meeting started in Srinagar on a controversial note after five members of the powerful grouping, stayed away from the gathering, writes @Gaamuk.
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Silence Around Delegates, High Security, Cleared Roads: What the G20 Meeting in Srinagar Entailed
Defying past conventions, the J&K administration has kept the names of the visiting delegates and their designations under wraps.
After the recurrence of violence in Manipur on Sunday night and during the day on Monday, the situation in the state remains tense, writes @aliyaqut.
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Manipur: Tensions Still High; Over 7,500 Have Fled to Mizoram So Far
In Imphal on Monday, a few houses were set ablaze on Chassad Avenue, Imphal East District under Porompat Police Station, around 2 pm.
Martin Amis, pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, has died at the age of 73. His dazzling, pyrotechnic prose dominated the world of English writing from the mid-1970s through the fin de siècle. https://t.co/iABX8RyTJI
#Books | The greatest challenge that every one of us who works with the juvenile justice system faces is keeping the balance between being fair to both the CICL (child in conflict with the law) and the victim, writes @enakshi_G.
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Why Do Children Turn to Crime?
'It was friendship, ma’am,' is how many children will describe what made them step into the world of crime.
Leaders of the G7 countries in Hiroshima pledged to restrict trade in Russian diamonds — worth $4-5 billion a year — including using high-tech methods of tracing to further obstruct Moscow’s war against Ukraine.
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New G7 Sanctions at Hiroshima on Russian Diamonds Threaten One Million Indian Jobs
PM Narendra Modi had attended the G7 meeting at Hiroshima as one of the invited guests, others being the leaders of Comoros, Cook Islands, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, South Korea and Australia.
On the occasion of Hamid Dalwai’s 46th death anniversary, @thewire_in reflects on his remarkable contributions and contemplates how he would have perceived present-day India.
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Rare Interview of Hamid Dalwai Gives Insight Into the Social Reformer's Thinking
In a 1973 interview, the founder of the Muslim Satyshodhak Samaj talked about his beliefs and the roots of his politics.
#Listen | In a podcast discussion with @bombaywallah, Congress leader @salman7khurshid said the party's performance was due to both the impact of Bharat Jodo Yatra and the local unit of the party.
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Perhaps PM Modi can win the global sweepstakes in dress-jockeying with his unabashed and nonchalant sartorial swings which he has proclaimed to be his own insignia and brand, writes Vrinda Gopinath.
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Is Modi’s Sartorial Flash No Longer a Smash?
It seems that the prime minister is done with his statement clothing after the humiliating debacle in the Karnataka polls.
That the gaudy pink unwanted child, born out of the whimsical demonetisation of high-value currencies in November 2016, would have to die early was always expected, writes @sritara.
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Withdrawal of Rs 2,000 Note Shows India Is Still Feeling Effects of Modi's Tughlaqian Demonetisation
The RBI appears to admit, without any embarrassment whatsoever, that once the purpose of inflating the value of currency in circulation has been served, there is no further need for the denomination.
A part of Alan Morinis's 1979 PhD thesis was edited to claim that a Hindu temple was destroyed to build an Islamic shrine at Tribeni in Hooghly district of West Bengal. There is no conclusive evidence for this claim, he tells @thewire_in | @AjoyAshirwad
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My Thesis Was Doctored to Suit the Goals of Hindu Supremacists, Says Canadian Researcher
A part of Alan Morinis's 1979 PhD thesis was edited to claim that a Hindu temple was destroyed to build an Islamic shrine at Tribeni in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. There is no conclusive evidence for this claim, he tells The Wire.
Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to hold talks with his Australian counterpart on Wednesday. That same evening, the Parliament House in Canberra is going to be the venue for the screening. https://t.co/l1Z7KTt8hL
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Australia’s Parliament House Will Be Venue for Screening of BBC Documentary on Gujarat Riots
Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to hold talks with his Australian counterpart on Wednesday. That same evening, a group of lawmakers and human rights activists will screen the documentary, which explores Modi’s role in the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat.
Why are criminals called ‘Goonda', 'Mafia' or 'Don’?
How and when did these terms enter our common lingo and legal discourse? In what context did they first begin to be used and what connotation do they bear now? | Krishan Pratap Singh
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How and when did these terms enter our common lingo and legal discourse? In what context did they first begin to be used and what connotation do they bear now? | Krishan Pratap Singh
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The Wire
Why Are Criminals Called ‘Goonda', 'Mafia' or 'Don’?
Recently, convicted gangster Mukhtar Ansari filed an application in a local court in UP asking the media not to use words like 'bahubali' and 'don' with his name. But how did these words become part of common parlance?
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar squandered no time in meeting Kejriwal, along with his deputy and RJD leader Tejaswhi Yadav, JD(U) national president Lallan Singh and RJD spokesman Manoj Jha, to amplify his support for Kejriwal. | @NalinAnant
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Opposition Unity: Seizing Opportunities and Breaking the Ice, Nitish Style
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is using the BJP's brusque ruling style and reliance on emotive issues to build consensus among the opposition.
Mamata Banerjee said that the forthcoming vote in Rajya Sabha to convert the ordinance on control of services in Delhi into law will be a "semi-final before the 2024 elections". https://t.co/Bsp0GihcKM
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Mamata Banerjee Extends Support to Kejriwal in 'Fight' Against Ordinance on Delhi Services
Defeating the Bill to convert the ordinance into law in the Rajya Sabha will be a "semi-final before the 2024 elections", the West Bengal chief minister said.
'These faded clothes whimper their secrets to each other.''
Read Revika Sangamita's poem for @livewire
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Read Revika Sangamita's poem for @livewire
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There are increasing instances of the misuse of the law, especially against persons who are vocal critics of the government and its policies, and those who raise issues of the poor and oppressed sections of society, the letter said. https://t.co/QbFpjW2ZuO
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'Stop Misuse of PMLA to Target Scholars and Activists': Citizens and Rights Groups in Open Letter
There are increasing instances of the misuse of the law, especially against persons who are vocal critics of the government and its policies, and those who raise issues of the poor and oppressed sections of society, the letter said.
One of the four cheetah cubs born in Kuno died on Tuesday, May 23, the Madhya Pradesh forest department said. The cub was weak, and the runt of the litter of four that cheetah Jwala gave birth to in the last week of March this year https://t.co/LAadOzHHMF
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Cheetah Cub Dies in Kuno
The cub was weak, and the runt of the litter of four born to cheetah Jwala, the Madhya Pradesh forest department said.
Karan Thapar spoke to former High Commissioner to Islamabad T.C.A. Raghavan to discuss how concerned India should be about Pakistan's constitutional, political and economic crises. Read the full text. https://t.co/MSSGAyIxdy
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Full Text: ‘We’ve to Be on Guard So That Spillover From Pakistan’s Developments Don’t Impact India'
'We've to be constantly on our guard, but the fact that there is so much civil strife and civil-military dissonance [in Pakistan], it is an additional factor for us to take into account as we evaluate our own internal and external security threats,' says…