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Opinion
Revise GST in one go
The rationale behind this tweaking isn’t clear, though some say it was done to woo urban and rural voters ahead of the forthcoming elections.
Security of the state: Don’t allow compromises
The Opposition is not an enemy like those across our borders, where soldiers have no choice but to kill or get killed in certain situations.
Of Kipling, modern monarchy ruling the UK and women taking over the world
When the poem If was painting over, we were reminded of what Kipling actually stood for.
Mystic Mantra: A quiet cheer for solitude
Solitude is the path to the realm of silence. Silence is the universal matrix, the vacuum that makes fullness possible.
Monday, July 23, 2018
The no-trust debate reveals NDA fissures
A no-trust move is resorted to when a government’s opponents feel that the running of the country is in poor shape.
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Accept Joseph’s elevation
The question of the right to make the appointments was settled when the top court shot down the National Judicial Appointments Commission.
Sunday, July 22, 2018
No-trust motion exposed disarray in Oppn
Perhaps the real intent then was for the Opposition to launch its campaign for 2019 through this effort.
Sunday, July 22, 2018
The last lap of Pakistan elections
Imran Khan’s meetings have been well attended, generally, bar maybe one or two occasions where the crowd was rather thin.
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Dilli Ka Babu: Non-cooperation blues
The Centre is considering a major change in the allocation of services to successful candidates of the civil services examination.
Sunday, July 22, 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
There were too many cats to stuff into the bag to begin with and the bag would have had to be small to remain unobtrusive.
The five nations constitute 26 per cent of the world’s land mass and 43 per cent of its population.
Initially, Libya, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, North Korea, Iraq and Chad were named in the travel ban; Chad and Sudan were later removed.
The approach to international relations in America can broadly be classified into four schools of thought.
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