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Kashmir unrest: Delegations promise no real change, leading to more anger within the state

As the day came to an end, close to 200 hundred people were injured in clashes with government forces through out south Kashmir.

Burhan Wani, the 'hero' of Tral: Nothing but praise for him here

At Tral, women protested and raised slogans that Burhan Wani was their real hero.

Bank of Baroda says ‘sorry’, will compensate farmer it mistook for Vijay Mallya guarantor

BoB has said its senior officers have met the “aggrieved customer” and apologised for the inconvenience in the wrongful freezing of accounts in Vijay Mallya case.

BoB doesn't even know who guaranteed Vijay Mallya's loan of Rs 550 crore!

This is the fourth part of a series that aims to look at how huge corporate loans are doled out without due diligence, using the Vijay Mallya case as an example

Civil administration, cops ramp up security for #JatAgitation 2.0

With the starting of the second phase of Jat agitation, both the civil administration and police are in no mood to compromise on security arrangement

Marathwada's drought: Why debt-ridden farmers are deemed least creditworthy

In Marathwada, crop value has collapsed to near-zero as the drought has shrunk agricultural yields. With it, the ability of farmers to raise loans on their land has declined

Marathwada's drought: Dry lands, economic deprivation shrinking opportunities, driving workers away from Latur

At first glance, Latur looks like any other Indian town with its dusty congested streets and crowded bazaars. But looks can be deceptive. The town is the epicentre of a process of deindustrialisation and economic deprivation that has spread across the whole district.

Marathwada's drought: In the midst of severe economic downturn, private water sellers reap profits in Latur

The current drought in Marathwada is being compared to the historic drought of 1972, of which some of the town’s older residents have vivid memories

Marathwada's drought: Region is parched, impoverished and desperate, but it's a crisis of its own making

The cries for water and the spurt in suicides in parched Marathwada are just some of the sharp manifestations of the rot that threatens to tear the state apart

Inside Malda: A ground report on West Bengal's toxic cocktail of opium farming and communalism

I spent three days in Kaliachak a fortnight after the riots, to understand what caused it and to examine if it was indeed communal in spirit or if it was purely criminal in intent. It became quickly apparent that clambering up such a binary tree would prove ill-advised. But a couple of preliminary indicators did point in the direction of unlawful rather than purely religious motivation, and bore the markings of a criminal conspiracy