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On December 16, 2012, India was shaken by the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy graduate. ‘Nirbhaya’, as she came to be known, was subjected to unspeakable horrors in a moving bus in South Delhi. She died in a hospital in Singapore a for

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The Central Information Commission (CIC) is headless again. Nearly 35,000 cases are currently pending in the CIC, and five out of 11 posts of commissioners, including the chief information commissioner, are vacant. This is even after the Supreme Cour

B.R. Ambedkar has remained an academic untouchable given his insistence on seeing caste as the central fault line of Hindu and, indeed, Indian society. Ambedkar’s persistent, scholarly and polemical enquiries into why Hindus saw other Hindus as sub-h

I can never reject the tag ‘Muslim’ because I was born in the faith and it has shaped me in many ways. It is the same with being Indian. I was born an Indian and, unless forced by circumstances beyond my control (such as a rash National Register of C

On January 18, rebelling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leaders met at Delhi’s Constitution Club to stitch together a coalition to challenge Sukhbir Badal’s leadership of the party. They had already identified SAD’s Rajya Sabha MP, Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa,

Spiritual guru Asaram Bapu was arrested on September 1, after a teenage girl from Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh accused him of raping her at his Jodhpur ashram. The trial took place under the POCSO Act—Asaram was convicted and sentenced to life impri

Rape, as a clearly defined offence, was introduced in the Indian Penal Code in 1860 The Criminal Law (Second Amendment) Act of 1983 made it mandatory for courts to assume the absence of consent if the victim says so. It made disclosing the victim’s

Dec. 16, 2012: Six men gangrape and brutalise physiotherapy graduate Nirbhaya and beat up her friend Awindra Pratap Pandey aboard a private bus from Munirka in Delhi Dec. 18: CCTV footage and bus details lead police to the vehicle and accused Ram Sin

“You look at the crime and you look at the criminal. If it’s a dope dealer who guns down an undercover narcotics officer, then he gets the gas…. If it’s two dope heads who gangrape a 10-year-old girl and kick her with pointed-toe cowboy boots until h

When Kanishk Seth was just 13, trying to wrap his head around high school science, his father told him he ought to start learning sound engineering. Now 24, Seth, a Mumbai-based producer, singer, guitarist and composer, says he was initially stumped

In Amanthi Harris’s new novel, Beautiful Place, a young woman returns to Sri Lanka, where her adopted Austrian father has renovated their villa for her to run as a guest house. Gerhardt had adopted Padma as a child from her own parents, Sunny and Lee

If there is one exam in which you stand a chance to succeed, even with little time at your disposal, it is CAT (Common Admission Test). While a longer duration of preparation can increase your chances of success, you must remember that any game is de

While one can develop the ability to manage through experience and intuition, a formal degree in management studies helps understand the underlying trends in the industry. An interdisciplinary field that draws from subjects such as economics, psychol

The lines between digital and physical spheres have blurred. Future business leaders will have to go ahead within this dynamic, challenging world now that computers are able to emulate better than human thinking and performance. Progressive managemen

As Chairperson of the Adani Foundation, Priti Adani feels that skilling and reskilling of the workforce is needed to leverage our human capital. Giving the example of Klaus Schwab, economist and the founder and executive chairman of the World Economi