82% of women in India able to refuse sex to their husbands, finds government’s family health survey
The men were asked whether they had a right to 4 types of behavior: reprimanding, refusing to pay, using force, or having sex with another woman. 6% said all of the above, 72% said nothing, report Abantika Ghosh,
Umran Malik from the eyes of his family: Ball-loving kid is now gunning for Shoaib’s record
Sunrisers Hyderabad pacer’s father Abdul Rashid runs a fruit and vegetable shop in Jammu. He says he will continue to do so as he doesn’t want IPL success to go to son’s head, report Ananya Bharadwaj And Praveen Jaini,
Iron Age in Tamil Nadu, 4,200 years ago, ‘oldest in India’
Archaeological excavations at Mayiladumparai reveal iron artifacts from ‘2172 BC to 1615 BC’, CM Stalin tells Tamil Nadu Assembly, reports Soumya Ashok,
Delimitation shows that India’s democracy is struggling to meet the challenge of Kashmir
Delimitation Commission’s mapping of electoral areas for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has reopened the communal wounds of the Dogra century, writes Praveen Swami,
A new ‘criminal’ state is emerging in Myanmar. and China is paying to make it
Myanmar’s drug lords are finally becoming state arbiters. While China moves quietly, India will have to make tough choices, writes Praveen Swami,
There is no cut-off time to reclaim India’s ‘Swadeshi Consciousness’ – it is a product of a colonial mindset. Think Traditions, Ask Real Questions, Write Yogendra Yadav,
How Congress is like an ambassador and why Indian politics needs a new wheel
Like the car, the party has done nothing to rebuild itself. The only way forward is to project something looking to the future, not in the image of a glorious past, writes Shekhar GuptaIn this week’s ‘National Interest’.