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Game, set... fireworks!

The code violation for coaching is hardly applied at such levels.

Monday, September 10, 2018

‘People want issue-based politics. BJP will pay for the ills, false promises’

Pilot says the BJP can deploy any trick but won’t be able to erase five years of agony that the people have suffered.

Monday, September 10, 2018

Indian consumer hit by a double whammy

India also has the problem of a weak rupee against a strengthening dollar which makes oil imports much more expensive.

Sunday, September 09, 2018

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Thwarting President Trump

The object of the article may have been to throw light on the resistance inside the White House to an unmoored President.

Sunday, September 09, 2018

Oped

Police press meets can threaten a defendant’s right to a fair trial

Five respected civil rights activists were arrested on August 28 in connection with acts of violence in Bhima Koregaon in January.

Sunday, September 09, 2018

Oped

Politics must reflect our rights

A century before Turing, the great English author Oscar Wilde was also convicted for the crime of being a homosexual.

Sunday, September 09, 2018

Interview of the Week

‘Would have been hard for Centre to justify continuance of Sec. 377’

It is only a physiological variation that occurs in a very small percentage of the population, says Arvind Datar.

Sunday, September 09, 2018

Oped

Dilli Ka Babu: Govt activists at loggerheads

The battle of a Bihar-cadre IAS officer Jitendra Gupta seeking an inter-cadre transfer to Haryana has blown up into a major tussle.

Sunday, September 09, 2018

Interview of the Week

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 Kerala health minister Shailaja interacts with her Karnataka counterpart on the Covid-19 situation. (DC Photo)

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

Hemant Soren

‘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.

Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit

‘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

Dr Robert Dickson Crane

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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A file photo of the disqualified MLAs at Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru.

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.

French President Francois Hollande (Photo: AP)

Age Debate: Rafale - Time to clear the air

A joint parliamentary committee probe is the only way to resolve Rafale controversy.

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Age Debate: A new roadmap for Kashmir?

Holding municipal/panchayat polls in J&K amid the NC-PDP boycott will be a farce.

The NRC in Assam is a welcome beginning and all political parties should join hands with one belief that the nation comes first.

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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An SP leader said that this was a “more peaceful way of communicating with the media.

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.

Simmering with rage, Mr Khan now stays away from party functions, including iftar, does not communicate with party leaders and has stopped meeting Mulayam Singh Yadav.

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.

The spokespersons have conveniently forgotten the murky bungalow episode and are not even bothering to ask the Yogi Adityanath government to produce the inventory about items that were claimed to have gone missing when Mr Yadav vacated the bungalow.

Reporters' Diary: Happy holidays!

A number of social organisations also made the similar demand.

The ones that are available are in townships that are developing on the outskirts of the state capital and are not ready to move in.

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.

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