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Emergency

Looking Back, Looking Forward

It was the best of times for us aspiring to join the IAS, it was perhaps the worst of times for India since Independence.

Shashi Tharoor describes Emergency as ‘dark chapter’

In his latest articles – one in Project Syndicate and  another in Malayalam daily Deepika — Tharoor described the 1975-77 Emergency as a “dark period” and cited “unspeakable atrocities” committed during that time.

NH-19 death: Dial 100 or 1033

The police and the highway authorities after yesterday's midnight chase and death incident of a dancer have taken a serious note of the crisis that the 'toll free emergency numbers' along the NH-19 were conspicuously missing.

Election Farce

Four years after seizing power in a coup, Myanmar’s military rulers continue their desperate yet failing bid to tighten their grip, this time by extending emergency rule under the pretext of preparing for elections.