Elections, government and policy in India: reporting and analysis on the parties, leaders and decisions shaping the country.
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In April 2012, Nupur Talwar challenged the non-bailable warrant against her in the Aarushi case — lost in the Supreme Court, and surrendered on April 30.
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A 2012 editorial discussion asked whether civil-service vetting was re-victimizing child-marriage survivors — and why the law's letter can fail its spirit.
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India tested the Agni-V ballistic missile on April 19, 2012 — a 5,000-km canisterized ICBM that brought Beijing within range for the first time.
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In April 2012 a Ghaziabad court issued a non-bailable warrant for Nupur Talwar in the Aarushi murder case; the CBI said she was missing from her Noida home.
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The Indian Express reported two Army units moved toward Delhi unannounced in January 2012. The government denied coup fears; Parliament was unconvinced.
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Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya lost custody of their two children to Norwegian social workers in May 2011, igniting a clash of two countries' parenting norms.
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How India stopped polio: one year with no cases by January 2012, removed from the WHO endemic list in February, and the 2-million-worker vaccination
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In January 2012, Indian media reported intelligence warnings that Lashkar-e-Taiba was training female operatives for attacks on India.
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In December 2011, Kapil Sibal asked Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Microsoft to pre-screen content for offensiveness. Why the pushback was immediate — and
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On November 24, 2011, Harvinder Singh slapped Union Minister Sharad Pawar at a Delhi literary function, saying he acted in anger over corruption and price rise.
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My mornings are sort of incomplete if I don’t devour ‘ The Times Of India ‘ along with my tea . Yesterday’s headlines of Manu Sharma getting a life sentence…
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Manmohan Singh skips the 2011 Commonwealth summit in Perth — and the reason is Australia's refusal to sell uranium to non-NPT India.
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In September 2011, speculation swirled that Nandan Nilekani might quit UIDAI as Aadhaar faced opposition from within government — including the Home Ministry.
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Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh was arrested on September 6, 2011 in the 2008 cash-for-votes scam and sent to Tihar Jail after a dramatic courtroom appearance.
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Anna Hazare's 2011 fast electrified India's anti-corruption movement. But can one Anna — or a hundred — clean the desh? The harder question behind the slogan.
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After 12 days at Ramlila Maidan and a Parliament resolution on the Lokpal Bill, Anna Hazare broke his fast on August 28, 2011. How the standoff ended.
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As CAG, Vinod Rai's 2G audit pegged the spectrum loss at Rs 1.76 lakh crore — and made a quiet auditor the most feared man in Indian public life.
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Breivik's 1,518-page manifesto devoted 102 pages to India, praising Hindutva and seeking common cause. Why India's Hindu nationalists wanted nothing to do
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In 2011, Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy live-streamed his office 24/7 as an anticorruption experiment. Gimmick or masterstroke? We look back.
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In a 2011 Wall Street Journal essay, Aatish Taseer — son of assassinated Pakistani governor Salman Taseer — traced Pakistan's obsession with India to its
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