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As the tractor drove off into the setting sun after distributing food packets at the relief camp, Sushila and her two sons, both under five years old, watched helplessly.
Since coming to power in 2004, the Prime Minister has convened 217 Cabinet meetings till June-end this year—about one meeting per week...
Deal signal: Govt offers land for yatra periodAfter two months, during which Jammu and Kashmir was caught in a spiral of violence and agitation over the Amarnath land row...
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People jostle for food at the Jankinagar relief camp in Purnia, Bihar.
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They are the alleged perpetrators of the worst terror strikes on India in recent years, but back home, their families are still to come to terms with it. The Sunday Express meets the families the accused SIMI members left behind
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BIG PICTURE
DOWN THE DARK ROAD Violence-hit Phulbani in Kandhamal district of Orissa is
separated from Kanya Ashram in Jalespeta, where VHP leader
Lakshmanananda Saraswati was killed, by a distance of 140 km. It’s a distance measured in violence, where burnt houses and churches are the new landmarks.
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The Idea Exchange
‘I am not willing to believe that Muslims are behind all acts of terror in this country’ Mahmood Madani, Rajya Sabha MP of the Rashtriya Lok Dal and till recently general secretary of the Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind, is the bearer of an illustrious legacy. He is the latest in the line of the Madanis, a family that has played a key role in India’s freedom struggle. Madani is known for his candid views on terror—he was at the forefront of the first anti-terror Conference of Muslim clerics in 2006 and the anti-terror fatwa issued by the Deoband Darul-ul-Uloom this year. In this Idea Exchange moderated by Resident Editor Seema Chishti, he speaks on the need to fight terror without bias
OUT OF THE BOX, OUT IN THE STREETS After the Bhiwani boys brought their sport into focus, our correspondent finds a small hut with big dreams bang in the middle of Mumbai, where dozens of young boxers trading punches is a way of life
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