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Opinion
EC must restore credibility
The VVPATs’ failure rate exceeding 20 per cent is a symptom of the disease, that is technical in nature and can be tackled.
Post-poll pacts need disciplining
Disastrous consequences to the nation of a rule by such a coalition even for a brief spell of six months are not difficult to imagine.
Age Debate: A roller-coaster ride
The Indian economy is better off today after four years of the Modi government.
Mystic Mantra: Wisdom in no-thing
Koans cause a unique spiritual tension that forces the mind to break out of the trap of logic.
Thursday, May 31, 2018
India’s foreign policy: So much left unsaid
The external affairs minister holds an annual press conference, but these are, in reality, events without updates.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Sterlite: SC will take call
The land allotted for doubling the plant’s capacity, which would have made Sterlite India’s top copper producer, was also cancelled.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Is the Cold War starting all over again?
To a watching world it was a graphic demonstration of iron-fisted crowd control by the Israeli security forces, circa 2018.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Spy chiefs & the quest for peace
The book is a discussion including agreements and differences larded with riveting banter between the former spy chiefs of India and Pakistan.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Mystic Mantra: Try to be a listener; hearing isn’t enough
It requires certain maturity, openness to understanding values and points of view very different from our own.
Wednesday, May 30, 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
According to Rinzai Zen, “sudden” enlightenment could be achieved, possibly after self-cultivation spread over many lives.
Savita’s family, and activists in Ireland and around the world, have argued that her life could have been saved had the foetus been removed sooner.
Relations with Pakistan represent a major policy failure.
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The writer is a Delhi-based journalist.
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