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Proxy voting suffers from the inherent problem of ‘trust deficiency’, and violates the principles of ‘secrecy of voting’ and ‘free and fair elections’.

Vajpayee the poet, Alvi recalled, was not very different from Vajpayee the politician. He talked about the ordinary man and his daily struggle, but he talked about politics in his poems too

An unprecedented development was the emergence of social media platforms as the biggest monitors during the catastrophe.

He was a man of moderation in a fraternity of jingoistic nationalists; a peace visionary in a region riven by religious animosity; and a man who believed in India's destiny and was ready to fight for it.

He remained the President of the DMK for nearly 50 years, a rare feat in any democratic country. He always sported dark glasses, which became his trademark identity, and in later years a yellow stole, which critics said was against the atheism he preached.

There are an estimated 450,000 people of Indian ancestry in Australia. Some 163,000 Indians migrated to Australia in the last five years alone. But...

India’s ‘worst water crisis’ is Pakistan’s too. But whether the two nations will deal with the climate change together is yet to be seen