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Aug 06, 2021 Outlook Business A bone of contention since it was passed in 2012, the retro tax has spooked investors for years.
Jul 05, 2021 Outlook Web Desk Talk between TMC leadership and the former Congress Jangipur MP Abhijit Mukherjee from West Bengal has been on for weeks.
The decisive mandate that the BJP received in the 2014 and 2019 general elections indicated voters' preference for political stability, Pranab Mukherjee wrote in his memoir.
Jan 05, 2021 PTI Pranab Mukherjee made these comments in his memoir "The Presidential Years, 2012-2017" which he wrote before his death last year.
Former President Pranab Mukherjee’s forthcoming memoirs The Presidential Years has got into an unseemly controversy with his son and daughter sparring over the book’s publication
The late President’s son Abhijit Mukherjee wants to put a break on publication while sister Sharmishtha asks to not create 'unnecessary hurdles'
Book also says Modi seemed to have employed a rather autocratic style of governance during his first term
A 3-year-old kid, who enacted the President of India in school, shares his memory of meeting President Mukherjee
President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chiefs of three defence services were among the dignitaries who paid their last respects to former president Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday morning.
'The Presidential Years' would be the fourth book to be authored by Pranab Mukherjee, who passed away On August 31 at a hospital in New Delhi at the age of 84.
In his book 'The Coalition Years', former president Pranab Mukherjee, who passed away on Monday at the age of 84, had disfavoured the Congress' 2003 decision to forge alliances to defeat the BJP in the 2004 general elections. Below is an excerpt from the book.
In his speech, Mukherjee had warned that any attempt to define India through 'religion, hatred, dogmas and intolerance' will dilute our existence and said public discourses must be freed of all forms of violence.
He was the senior-most minister with the longest experience who had helped manoeuvre the party in the beleaguered post-1996 years. He had guided Sonia Gandhi most sincerely when she finally joined politics in 1998
Pranab Mukherjee, who served as the 13th president of India from 2012 to 2017, died on Monday in an army hospital in Delhi
Some politicians don’t fade into the background. And so it was with the scholarly Pranab Mukherjee too. He remained a presence to contend with even after he demitted the office of President.
Former president Pranab Mukherjee passed away on Monday. He was 84, he was being treated for brain clot and also diagnosed with Covid-19
Mukherjee, 84, died on Monday in an army hospital here, his son Abhijit said.
Mukherjee was admitted to the Army's Research and Referral Hospital on August 10 and was operated for removal of a clot in the brain. He also tested positive for COVID-19, and later developed a lung infection.
A farmer sits near his red chillies at a deserted APMC market, during the weekend curfew imposed by the Karnataka government to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Hubballi.
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Delhi Chief Minister & AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal being welcomed by women supporters during his door-to-door campaign ahead of the Goa Assembly elections, in Goa.
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A health worker collects swab sample of a woman for COVID-19 test, amid concerns over rising Omicron cases, in Gurugram.
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Traffic jam on a road at Shalimar Bagh during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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The Lajpat Nagar market wears a deserted look during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
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The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
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Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
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Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
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The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.
Dec 28, 2021 Tanvir Aeijaz 
