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Opinion
A race to woo business
The latest rankings, based on user feedback, show the reforms are working.
Age Debate: A BJP bid to secure its turf?
Holding simultaneous polls to Parliament and the state Assemblies is not a feasible idea.
Section 377 needs to go: A ‘Victorian relic’ has no place in today’s India
The court left it to Parliament to consider deleting the provision.
Mystic Mantra: Healing by conches
Even if one does not blow the shankh, and puts it to his/her ear, a definite vibration or sound can be heard.
Thursday, July 12, 2018
5 yrs after Dec 2012: So little has changed
The confirmation of the death sentence doesn’t mean the criminals will necessarily swing.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Thai rescue: A job well done
Trade wars faded into the background as such an operation shone like a beacon of light.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Pluralism is the bedrock of our country
The trolls targeting India’s foreign minister are an extension of this same ugly discourse.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
US must work towards reviving 2+2 dialogue without any preconditions
Policy pundits believed that this further cemented the Indo-US relationship which has been incrementally building over the years.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Mystic Mantra: The pride of knowledge
Our pride of knowledge has several harmful effects of which we need to be aware.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Interview of the Week
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How Kerala flattened the curve, lowest death rates: Health minister Shailaja explains
Health department constituted 18 expert groups in training health care staff for detailed stock-taking of beds, equipment in each hospital
‘I don’t support laws that go against Preamble’
We can’t make people stand in queue again like the way it happened during demonetisation, says Hemant Soren.
‘The attack on JNU was barbaric in the least’
All the claims being made by the AAP in the areas of education and health are hugely exaggerated and we will expose them, says Sandeep Dikshit
Let Muslims be like Franciscans, espousing faith
A totalitarian system would reduce the possibility of a confederation of peoples.
The Age Debate
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Age Debate: A win for BJP and the disqualified, really?
The BJP is elated as it can look to their support - if they win the bypolls - to shore up their numbers.
Age Debate: Rafale - Time to clear the air
A joint parliamentary committee probe is the only way to resolve Rafale controversy.
Age Debate: A new roadmap for Kashmir?
Holding municipal/panchayat polls in J&K amid the NC-PDP boycott will be a farce.
Age Debate: Targeting aliens or citizens?
It will be premature to extend the NRC to the whole of India at this juncture.
Reporter's Diary
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Reporters' Diary: Keeping media at bay
UP Chief minister Yogi Adityanath also does not take questions in his press conferences that are, in any case, few and far in-between.
Reporters' Diary: Angrily yours
As the probe began, the SP chose to turn a blind eye to the development and did not issue a single statement in support of Mr Khan.
Reporters' Diary: EX-CMs in UP go house hunting
The problem is that with the Lucknow skyline going up, bungalows with sprawling lawns are now a rarity.
Columns
The former Prime Minister’s two sons, Hassan and Hussain, are also implicated but have been absconding for good reason.
In the past 100 years, though, nothing quite as deadly as the so-called Spanish flu has struck the planet.
In this one-man government, Prime Minister Modi is the one who takes all the decisions.
The short-term political battle will mean winning an election (or as much as can be won) on a pitch that is far from even.
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