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UNREST OVER WAGES • A surge of protests across industrial clusters highlights mounting anger over low wages, inadequate social security and denial of basic workplace rights

HISTORICAL BLUNDER

NEW PERIL IN THE ICU

A CRITICAL LEAP • On April 6, India’s nuclear energy programme officially stepped into its second stage with the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam achieving first criticality—the point at which a sustained and controlled fission chain reaction begins. Once it is fully operational, India will become only the second country after Russia to run a commercial fast breeder reactor. A closer look at the science and strategy behind this milestone

REVANTH’S TEMPLE REVAMP • The Congress CM slathers on a new coat of paint on Telangana’s temple circuit, with mammoth projects—one complex getting renovated is his own political image

Quotas Within Quota • The volatile debate over SC sub-categorisation sharpens in the state. In special focus is the Buddhist Dalit cohort

DISTURBING AREAS OF DOUBT • Gujarat’s communal ghettoisation gets legal force, as a tweak to a riot-time law from the 1980s makes its clauses permanent and more freely applicable—at all times

SURGICAL STRIKE ON TRUST • No medical reason, no consent—a dubious hysterectomy exposes an ailing system

Where Smoke Shows a Mirror • The Pachpadra refinery fire, a day before launch, shines a heated torch on India’s lax compliance collapse

BREAKING THE DEADLOCK • AFTER THE OPPOSITION BLOCKS THE SPEEDY IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HISTORIC WOMEN’S RESERVATION LEGISLATION, A ROADMAP TO BREAK THE IMPASSE

UNFAIR DIVIDE • If Lok Sabha seats are increased by 50 per cent across all states, five largest north Indian states—Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat—will get 54 seats less than what they would have got based on 2011 population data, while five south Indian states will gain 19 seats

THE WAR ON SNOOPING EYES • AS THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT REVEALS HIGHER LEVELS OF DANGER THROUGH CCTV SYSTEMS, THE MODI GOVERNMENT HAS PUT DOWN STRICT RULES TO RESTRICT AND REGULATE THEIR OPERATION

SEX, LIES AND TCS • Multiple FIRs and an expanding police dragnet point to a possible pattern of abuse, coercion and systemic lapses at the company’s Nashik BPO

THE WEB OF DECEIT • Investigating officers and employee accounts detail a saga of sexual and religious harassment that allegedly played out at the TCS BPO over the past three years

THE ACCUSED • Nine FIRs have been filed against eight TCS employees on charges ranging from sexual harassment to hurting religious sentiments; seven have been arrested

THE KING IN CRISIS • Maharashtra’s famed mango faces one of its worst seasons, hitting yields and rural incomes in the Konkan region

ADULT ATTENTION DEFICIT • More adults in India are reporting symptoms of ADHD, as busier schedules and increased screen time worsen a condition that may have gone undiagnosed in childhood, and the growing conversation around the disorder now helps them recognise the signs

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