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Those who are unsure about the benefits of meditation need only look at Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha, who appears fierily rejuvenated after his 57-day Vipaasana break.
A debt-ridden farmer from Rajasthan wrapped a turban around his neck and hanged himself from a tree not very far from the stage from which Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was addressing a rally against a controversial bill to ease land acquisition laws.
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In what is further bad news for farmers and the Indian economy, the India Meteorological Department (IMD), has forecast deficient rains in its first outlook for the monsoon of 2015.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi took the debate over net neutrality to Parliament and accused the government of giving away the Internet to “corporate” interests.
Faced with a series of agitations, police today arrested eight teachers for allegedly forcing Dalit students to clean toilets in a government-aided high school in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu.
Senior leaders of the BJP and RSS, Amit Shah and Ram Madhav during their visit to Meghalaya indicated that the ban on cow slaughter would remain alien to the Northeast and also reassured that every religious community would live with utmost "peace, safety and security".
In the light of the Nirbhaya case, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared a proposal to try juveniles in the age group of 16 to 18 years, who are accused of heinous crimes, under laws for adults.
Off The Front Page
A Goa trial court on Wednesday has allowed the police a warrant to search Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar's official residence in Delhi for former Goa archives and archaeology minister Francisco Pacheco, who has been missing for a fortnight.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has earned the wrath of activists for featuring in an “offensive” advertisement for a jewellery brand that shows a dark child carrying an umbrella over her head and thus, according to the activists, indirectly condoning child labour.
In possibly the first delay of its kind, an Air India captain on Wednesday morning, refused to operate an aircraft because one of the emergency oxygen masks in the cockpit was 'dirty'.
Rahul Gandhi likened Narendra Modi to former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev as two global personalities whom the US has chosen to shower with effusive praise in recent decades. Neither the Congress nor the BJP were sure if it was a barb or a compliment.
Opinion
Shiv Vishvanathan, in The Hindu, says that every political party seems to take the poor as a pretext for politics and yet is absent-minded about them.
KP Nayar, in The Telegraph, says that while countries unfailingly revel in celebrating anniversaries. India and Malaysia, however, are now doing their best to bury a shared one.
Neha Sahay, in The Telegraph, thinks aloud on the social repercussions of China’s one-child policy.
Bibek Debroy, in The Indian Express, says that merely focussing on India’s rigid labour laws to boost employment is piecemeal.
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