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The Modi regime has received some undeserved beating for Indias supposed fall in the Global Hunger Index by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

How hungry is India and why?

India fell precipitously by 45 places since 2014, which is when the Modi regime came into being.

22 Oct 2017 3:33 AM IST

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi during the second day of his visit to Amethi. (Photo: PTI/File)

The alternative or a liability?

Gandhi's recent speech at Berkeley is described by some saffron sympathisers as an act by a stand up comedian .

8 Oct 2017 3:04 AM IST

Huge crowds were witnessed at the Thane station after train services resumed at 6:30 am on. (Photo: Deepak Kurkunde)

Mumbai and Delhi: A tale of 2 cities

Mumbai may be the nation's financial capital, but from the governance point of view it is a district in Maharashtra...

8 Oct 2017 2:19 AM IST

Mumbai does not have enough amenities for half the people living in it.

Maximum city, minimum benefits

Poor Mumbai is the milch cow of our country. Shouldn't we protect this cow as well?

8 Oct 2017 2:14 AM IST

PM Modi, Japanese PM Abe will lay foundation stone for the bullet train in Ahmedabad later this month.

Put the brakes on bullet train

The plan to get a bullet train from Japan should be dropped entirely until we establish our own technologies.

8 Oct 2017 2:09 AM IST

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

Losing Rahul is the only way ahead for Congress

Rahul Gandhi was appointed vice-president of the Congress in January 2013.

8 Oct 2017 2:05 AM IST

Decline in interest rates would boost demand for consumer durables, stimulate investments, and make Indian products more competitive.

Economic turnaround: The only way is up

The government has front-loaded capital spending and undertaken significant reform policies including GST.

3 Oct 2017 1:44 AM IST

File photo of senior BJP leaders Yashwant Sinha and Arun Jaitley after a BJP Parliamentary Party meeting in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

I am confident that H2 2017-18 will show solid recovery, says Arvind...

The government is looking at increased public spending to boost growth, with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addressing...

3 Oct 2017 1:40 AM IST

An anti-Rohingya hardline Buddhist group, together with Buddhist monks, rally outside Yangons Thilawa port as the Malaysian ship carrying relief aid for Rohingya Muslim minority arrives. (Photo: AFP)

Rohingya Portent

The announcement that all Rohingya refugees would be expelled from India had the flavour of India joining the ethnic...

24 Sept 2017 4:52 AM IST

Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stretch their arms out to receive packets of biscuits thrown at them as handouts. (Photo: AP)

A facade of refugee doesn't hold water

There is no doubt there has been violence in Myanmar and army action on Rohingyas is also not untrue.

24 Sept 2017 4:45 AM IST

Child sexual abuse is an under-reported offence in India and has reached epidemic proportions.

Failing our children

Sexual violence amongst children is notoriously difficult to measure.

18 Sept 2017 2:02 AM IST

Demonstrators hold placards with the picture of journalist Gauri Lankesh during a Not In My Name protest, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Thursday (Photo: PTI)

The beast in human beings

There have been philosophies and ideologies that inspired human beings through self-suffering and sacrifice in the...

11 Sept 2017 1:19 AM IST