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THE LATEST Not just yet another news item.The New Leam evolves a way of seeing, and reflects on the mood of our times. Lynching, Mob Assaults...

REPORTAGE | The violence and exploitation of the young inmates in Muzzaffarpur’s shelter home for girls is shocking as it reveals the plight of the deprived sections of society

THE LATEST Privacy over Rafale Deal Leads Congress to Bring Privilege Motion in Parliament CM of Bihar Nitish Kumar Faces Backlash as Liquor Ban Undergoes Amendment Toronto Mass Shootings Kill and Injure Many

Communal tensions in Bihar, West Bengal and other parts of India have led to conflict amidst communities that for many decades had been living together peacefully.

BOARD EXAMINATION Bihar Board Examinations are being conducted and from this year students are not allowed to wear shoes and socks inside the hall to decrease the possibility of cheating. Examinations generate anxiety and pressure and thus cheating cannot be contextualised in a void.

In Bihar a dam collapses hours before Chief Minister inaugurates it: amidst these conditions what do the lack of political will, entrenched corruption and the lack of accountability stand for? The time has come for us to probe into these grave concerns.

Floods are a perennial concern in many regions of South Asia and flood relief an annual news- amidst this context what can be the solution towards developing a mechanism that not only mellows down the damaging effects of the flood but also takes into account community participation and partnership? The piece that follows looks at this theme and offers solutions to the concern.

Sexuality is not the basis of character and yet the form for appointment in Bihar’s Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences gives it critical importance. Are we regressing to our feudal past?

As we discover and rediscover the ruins of an existence that is unsustainable, inequitable and poor we are compelled to ask why death tolls are not just mere statistics and how compensations cannot be our solemn response to tragedy.

// Rivers are one of the most fundamental natural resources and are indispensable for human civilisation. It is because of rivers that for...