State bar councils need to rein in lawyers’ associations that obstruct the course of justice.
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The neglect of Andhra Pradesh and the power struggle there has created trouble for Modi’s BJP.
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The April 2013 Rana Plaza collapse, which resulted in the death of more than 1,125 people working in garment factories in the building, drew widespread attention to hazardous labour conditions in the export garment-manufacturing industry in Bangladesh.
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Data from the Census and District Level Household Survey-3 (2007–08) are used in this paper.
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Contested Knowledge: Science, Media, and Democracy in Kerala by Shiju Sam Varughese, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017; pp xvi + 291, ₹ 995.
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The partition of British India precipitated a set of instruments of governance that shaped occupations, land-use patterns, and forms of citizenship in urban hinterlands.
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While there has been a tremendous increase in the number of bank accounts opened, the data show that the average balance in these accounts is low and a significant proportion of the accounts are inoperative.