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The most common justification for the limitation of an instance of free speech is that national security or public safety is jeopardized by that instance. It follows that flag burning must be demonstrated as jeopardizing national security or public safety if it is to be prohibited. Certainly...

Who has Designed the Indian Flag and which year?

Khadi is the pride and joy of our nation and can be easily understood from the fact that the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) gave it the first place by way of national flag specification. As per BIS, Khadi is the only fabric that is used for production of India’s national flag. One national...

THE mood at Sebastián Piñera’s final campaign rally was hardly triumphant. The turnout on the Alameda, the main avenue in the centre of Santiago, Chile’s capital, was poor by the standards of the rallies of previous election-winners. Groups of young people—there for the bands rather than the...

THERE was a time, a decade ago, when British Airways (BA) could credibly claim to be “the world’s favourite airline”, as its posters proudly affirmed. Not any more. And certainly not to those passengers who were hastily booking alternatives to their BA flights this week as the threat of a long...