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This report by Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour contains the findings of a four-month investigation of the working conditions at the Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Hangzhou, where 17 workers killed themselves in early 2010, many of them by jumping out of factory windows.

The prospect of a peace deal with the Taliban is a hot topic, with the
establishment of a High Peace Council to support negotiations and reports of secret talks between the Afghan government and the insurgents.

U are no longer U,
– I am no longer I,
– We are all 12 number Digits
– It’s their UID.

The Aadhaar or UID project has grave implications for every Indian.

It will enable the government to profile every citizen and track their movements and transactions.

There is no guarantee that intimate personal information — pre-existing illnesses, romantic relationships etc — won’t be shared with other agencies, warns Praful Bidwai.

Author and historian Dilip Simeon talks about his first novel called "Revolution Highway" which is a fictionalised account of the heady days of the Naxalite movement in the 1960s and 1970s, of which he, in fact, was a part. Simeon says the novel is based on the realities of those days.