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The Morning Wrap : Women 2% Of The Paramilitary And 40% Of Their Suicides; BJP Offers Jobs For Thaw In Land-Bill Logjam

The Morning Wrap : Women 2% of the Paramilitary And 40% Of Their Suicides; BJP Offers Jobs For Thaw In Land-Bill Logjam
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) woman commandos crawl under barbed wire during an excercise at the Kharkan Training Camp at Hoshiarpur, around 60 kms from Jalandhar on January 13, 2015. The Border Security Force (BSF) is a paramilitary force charged with guarding India's land border during peace time and preventing transnational crime. AFP PHOTO / SHAMMI MEHRA (Photo credit should read SHAMMI MEHRA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Indian Border Security Force (BSF) woman commandos crawl under barbed wire during an excercise at the Kharkan Training Camp at Hoshiarpur, around 60 kms from Jalandhar on January 13, 2015. The Border Security Force (BSF) is a paramilitary force charged with guarding India's land border during peace time and preventing transnational crime. AFP PHOTO / SHAMMI MEHRA (Photo credit should read SHAMMI MEHRA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Essential HuffPost

HuffPost India finds that the Teri governing council is powerless to stop sexual harrassment-accused R K Pachauri from being at the helm.

The Jharkhand education minister thought APJ Abdul Kalam was dead and paid him floral tributes at a public function.

If this is an El Nino year, why is it raining so much in India?

Vir Sanghvi's 'Draw My Life,' an animated YouTube series, claims to reveal whatever little is not known about the most famous Indians, beginning with Amitabh Bachchan.

Nidhi Nath Srinivas argues that the crash in gold prices has nothing to do with demand-suppy problems.

These gorgeous pictures from a Kashmir temple will have you wonder why the place is so obscure.

Main News

Though women make up only 2% of the central paramilitary forces, they account for 40% of the suicides.

The government plans to increase compensation and provide some guaranteed jobs as part of a slew of amendments to the contentious land acquisition bill.

The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) will evict over 40 students who it claims have overstayed on the Pune campus despite graduating and are stoking the protests against Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as chairman.

Sonia Gandhi has reportedly blasted MP Shashi Tharoor for criticizing the Congress' Parliament-stalling 'tactics,' and airing his criticism to journalists.

The Gujarat police have alleged that Teesta Setalvad and her husband be denied aniticipatory bail as they have misappropriated charity funds to buy wine, cds and expensive mobile phones.

The government has argued, in the Supreme Court, that the right to privacy is not a fundamental right.

Former Congress Goa minister Churchill Alemo has alleged that defence minister Manohar Parrikar, as Goa Chief Minister, had commissioned tainted US company Louis Berger to examine the feasability of a greenfield airport project in Mopa, Goa.

Off the Front Page

Edmond Fernandes, a doctor from Mangalore, advocates in the British Medical Journal that doctors should be banned from wearing white coats, as evidence has accumulated that long-sleeved coats may spread infections and cause avoidable harm to patients.

In laying the ground for the Bihar election, some of the BJP's campaign assistants have doctorates from JNU.

A former Congress MLA from Vellore in Tamil Nadu, Arul Anbarasu, on Wednesday sent two-way air tickets to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to immediately visit the state and address its problems.

As part of the Gujarat government's initiative to improve spoken English in schools, 'Karsanbhai' has replaced 'Old MacDonald' as the farm owner in the hoary children's rhyme.

A university in Madhya Pradesh claims a full-fledged programme to help pregnant mothers communicate with their foetuses and sharpen their brains for math and related skills.

Opinion

Abik Ghosh says that the Centre must play a prominent role in tweaking laws and balancing them to give greater flexibility to employers as well as protect worker rights.

Surjit Bhalla says that the new Socio Economic and Caste Census is riddled with errors.

Anupam Manur says the 'Maximum Retail Price' tag must disappear from every product.

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