A security person gestures to the crowd as people stand in a queue to exchange discontinued currency notes outside a Post office, in Hyderabad.
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Turkish wave flags of their country as they attend a Democracy and Martyrs' Rally in Istanbul.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine wave to the crowd during a Democracy and Martyrs' Rally in Istanbul.
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Republican presidential Candidate Donald Trump gives his running mate, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana a kiss as they shake hands after Pence's acce...
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Mourners including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attend the funeral of Erdogan's campaign manager Erol Olcak, killed along with his 16-year old son Abdullah and Mustafa Ca...
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Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen speaks to members of the media at his compound in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. Turkish officials have blamed a failed coup attempt on Gulen, who denies...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech in Istanbul. Forces loyal to Erdogan quashed a coup attempt in a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire that left som...
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Turkish citizens wave their national flags as they protest against the military coup outside Turkey's parliament near the Turkish military headquarters in Ankara.
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Turkish citizens wave a huge national flag as they protest against the military coup outside Turkey's parliament near the Turkish military headquarters in Ankara, Turkey.
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Damage caused by helicopter bombardments inside Turkey's parliament near the Turkish military headquarters in Ankara, Turkey. Forces loyal to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoga...
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Hundreds of protesters march on a downtown street during an annual pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong.
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Protesters run during a massive anti-government protest in Kabul. Authorities locked down Afghanistan's capital Monday as tens of thousands of members of an ethnic minority group m...
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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff speaks after leaving Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil. Speaking hours after the Senate voted to suspend her, Rousseff blasted the ...
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Congress supporters during Save Democracy rally organised by congress party at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures while speaking at a rally at Macomb Community College, in Warren, Michigan.
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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks during a canvass kick-off event at the Reno Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada
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A man casts his ballot at a polling station during the second round of Egyptian parliamentary elections at a polling station in Cairo, Egypt.
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Tin Aye, chairman of Union Election Commission, left gestures as he delivers a speech during an event to announce election results in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Myanmar was trapped in a p...
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Traffic attempts to make it's way through supporters of Myanmar's National League for Democracy party as they wait for election results to be posted outside the NLD headquarters in...
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marjeet Sohi takes oath as Canada's new Minister of Infrastructure and Communities during the ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
A protest against protests must be too much democracy, indeed, but this unfailing support that the government enjoys is the fundamental challenge a “democracy” at 2020 could face, of turning into an emotional regime.
Expressing concern over hate speeches and personal remarks by leaders of all political parties, Singh said there is no place for hatred in healthy politics.
Gandhi tagged a news report along with his tweet that claimed that Opposition members demanding a division of votes were on their seats when the farm bills were passed in the Rajya Sabha, while the government said they were not.
Five years of watered down democracy tested the Myanmar military to its limits. Aung San Suu Kyi’s resounding poll win seals her fate. Army boots trample all again.
There is no inherent tension between national security and human rights in the minds of soldiers. The debate should be directed at the government that makes policies and enacts laws.
A smorgasbord of rights violations is aided by the dysfunctionality of legislatures. Dispiritingly, the Supreme Court is unable to enforce its own enlightened judgments in favour of individual rights against the state.
What does fearlessness have to do with democratic citizenship—and the formal rights entailed in it? A contrastive reading of Savarkar and Gandhi offers us cues.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla says the Constitution of India is the backbone of nation's parliamentary democracy and no government can tamper with its core values
As the Indian Republic draws to 70, the hopes and dreams lie in vibrant debate. The challenge will lie in addressing the yearning for identity in a way consistent with the practices of democracy, writes Mahesh Rangarajan
The old Liberal Order is under great stress from global economic convulsions. Desai runs through the past century to provide its socio-political context.
Gandhiji’s vision of India—a moral, secular version of village life and economy—was the opposite of Nehru’s ideals of socialism, democracy and science. Both made compromises in their stands.