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By Mannika Chopra Never before has the Indian media community been so blessed. The number of media organisations is increasing and being filled by professionals whose salaries have improved vastly. But what has set this year apart is the presence of fake stings that exposed the media's fault lines and unspooled a much-needed bout of introspection. In late August Uma Khurana, then an unknown maths teacher at a government run school located in Daryaganj, was 'found' forcing her high school students to become part of a prostitution ring.

By Vatsal Srivastava, The first quarter of 2014 saw bearish news flow out of China on a regular basis. Out of all the disappointing economic releases - the first corporate bond default, the shrinking export numbers, and the PBOC intervention to abate the appreciation of the yuan - it is perhaps the risk of the property bubble bursting which poses the greatest risk to the global macro recovery.

By Arvind Padmanabhan, IANS,

Gulzar Azmi, Secretary (Legal cell) of the Jamiat E Ulama Maharashtra, seeks compensation for the people framed in the Akshardham attack case by police officers. By Sayed Abdul Aziz, The names of Adam Ajmeri, Mufti Abdul Qayyum Mansuri, Mohammed Salim Shaikh, Abdul Qadri and Altaf Hussain would have been lost in the dungeons of Gujarat’s prisons, had it not been for the sustained efforts of the Jamiat e Ulama Maharashtra (Arshad Madani).

By Saquib Salim, I am not really a soccer fan and I do not want to pretend during world cup, just because everyone else...

By IANS,

By Saeed Naqvi, I thought election 2014 would come with nailbiting suspense until I turned up at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club on Mathura Road where the Congress whiz kid from Chicago, Sam Pitroda, was holding court in a Tarpauline Tent which looked like a parking lot for camels.

By K.S. Parthasarathy, Homi Bhabha, the architect of nuclear India, lived the most productive part of his life in Mehrangir, the house his father bought in 1937. Scientists regret the disinformation campaign on Bhabha's association with Mehrangir. They want the government to declare Mehrangir a national monument and save his last asset.

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By Jamal Hashim, Shaalan Ahmed, Xinhua,

Baghdad : Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's harsh words on "deadlock" over Iraq-U.S. pact talks may not prevent Baghdad and Washington from hammering out a long-term relationship pact, analysts said Saturday.

Maliki could have made the pointed remarks under growing pressure at home and abroad, added the analysts.

By Mohd Mudassir Alam

By Dr. Shah Alam Khan, The recent upsurge in Naxal violence has led the Hon. Home Minister of India, Mr. P Chidambaram to put a difficult question to the intelligencia of this country, “Are you a Naxal Sympathizer?”, he asked all those who showed any feeling, occult or open, in sympathizing with the red brigade. The question leaves little room for answer and even little space for people like me, who do sympathize with those who have been deprived and protest, sans violence. Doesn’t it sound very much like George W Bush bellowing “Either you are with us or you are with them”?

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,

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By Abdur Rashid Agwan,

By Amulya Ganguli Women are now being courted by some politicians who sense that their appeal to Dalits, backward castes and Muslims is dwindling in...

By Aziz A. Mubaraki, As everybody else has an opinion on Yakub Memon’s death by decree of law, irrespective of the fact that it is...

By Dr Wasim Ahmad,

By Asghar Ali Engineer

[हमारे युवाओं के दिमाग को भावनात्मक तौर पर बरगलाने और हमारे धार्मिक संवादों के लैंगिक मिजाज़ पर बहस] By अस्मा अंजुम खान, [अरे लड़कों, मुझे मत समझाओ. लेकिन क्या हम इस ‘कोसने’ के खेल को अपना संयुक्त और सार्वजनिक खेल नहीं बना सकते? चलो...कोसो, कोसो और ख़ूब कोसो. रुको मत. और आखिर में थोड़ा और कोसो. शुक्रिया.] यह कुछ साल पहले की घटना है.

By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi,

By Amit Kapoor, One of the fundamental questions in the realm of economics is: What drives prosperity? One may ask prosperity of ‘what’? The ‘what’ can be described as a region, which could be a locality/city, region/state, nation/country or an international free trade area. Framed differently, the question can also be put as why some (cities/regions/countries) become rich while others remain poor? The question appears to be quite broad and has fundamental implications for all the peoples of the world. This is because fundamental questions like these if properly answered can impact the lives of all the 7 billion inhabitants of the world. It is not just a theoretical academic question but has a bearing on economic growth, which is imperative for improving the quality of life of all peoples of the world.

By Mayank Chhaya, IANS, Throwing shoes during news conferences is an extreme form of editorialising which professional reporters must refrain from, especially those who are a poor shot.

By Amulya Ganguli

Unlike at the time of its first and second anniversaries, the Manmohan Singh government appears jaded and weighed down with multiple burdens as it completes its third year in office.