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SRINAGAR: Terming 21st May as the blackest day in the history of Jammu of Kashmir, the Chairman of moderate All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday said that the unparalleled sacrifices rendered by the Kashmiri people for their ...

The partitioning of about one-third of natural landscapes and throwing open of two-thirds of so-called cultural landscapes to development will eventually lead to fragmentation and desertification of the Western Ghats, said ecologist Madhav Gadgil. Gadgil ...

I recently considered in these pages the problems that the political reality of caste posed to communist parties in India. This column and the next one will look at the ways in which another category religious community complicated the politics of ...

As a child in Wardha at the time of Partition, Asghar Ali heard "horrible stories of people being killed and trains full of dead bodies." Those stories, he wrote in his autobiography, A Living Faith, disturbed him so much that he began thinking very ...

The Kashmir issue still exists today due to the creation of Pakistan as a result of the partition of the country in 1947. The partition, which had as its basis the two-nation theory and left millions dead and many more millions homeless, should not ...

Ayesha Jalal, noted historian from Pakistan, is the director of the Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at Tufts University, Massachusetts. In her most recent book, she explores Saadat Hasan Manto's life and times, especially around Partition. The ...

The state government has shelved its plan to partition Thane district and carve out a new tribal-dominated, semi-urban Palghar district.

An account that not only chronicles Sindhi culture but also the pain of Partition.

Most chemical transport models assume instantaneous equilibrium to represent gas-particle partitioning of semivolatile organic aerosol. This approach has been challenged by recent studies suggesting that secondary organic aerosol (SOA) cannot reach ...