"An inquiry is underway to establish the cause of the fire," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a statement.
This piece is a tribute to that corner of film criticism that they call subtextual film criticism.
Forget India, UP won't accept Rahul's leadership, says Rita Bahuguna Joshi while joining the BJP
While the state's decision to take the road to Prohibition has been given a communal twist, there are several political imperatives of the move
Rediff.com meets a family that longs for "a very nice man" who, alas, will never return.
'We cannot be naughty and expect the government to do good!' 'We have to behave ourselves and then we can expect the government to support us.' 'If we are able to protect ourselves well, then we should not be having deaths.' 'Unfortunately, people have gotten into this super scary event participation (mode) -- birthday parties, large gatherings.' 'Among the people who have attended those, 80 to 90 per cent of them have come down with COVID-19.'
'Oommen Chandy may well prove to be the Teflon chief minister whose reputation cannot be tarnished,' predicts Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Sunanda K Datta-Ray considers them sound in theory, but incapable of making any dent in the corruption that is India's way of life.
Farming and debt go together in Tamil Nadu's Ariyalur district. There are those who have learnt to live with it and others like Alagar who could not cope with the loss.
Mumbai's 45 mohalla committees and the many voluntary groups working to bring communities together in the city can be counted upon to do their utmost to stop riots.
'We in the Anglicised middle class are unconcerned about the vast majority of Indians. We insist on only our concerns and anxieties being debated. All other Indians are irrelevant,' says Aakar Patel.
Rediff.com looks at other sensational murder mysteries that left India shell-shocked.
'If policy-makers hold the lives of animals to be more significant than the welfare of a human populace, I can't believe that they're likely to do anything progressive for India.'
