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Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election campaign rally in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

We need universal basic income as jobs shrink

The Modi government's scheme is for farmers who have less than 2 hectares (meaning about 5 acres)

3 Feb 2019 12:42 AM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (Photo: AP)

The hypocrisy of Jaitley over ICICI

The finance minister is concerned that this is happening because of the CBI's recklessness and we must commend his...

27 Jan 2019 2:36 AM IST

The SC has agreed to several provisions of the states law on dance bars, including time restrictions and no showering of currency notes on performers, the minister said.

The morality police and dance bars

The dance bar usually has multiple areas and the ones on the higher floors are reserved for clients willing to pay more...

20 Jan 2019 12:02 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi and Amit shah (Photo: File/PTI)

2019: BJP likely to strike an extreme pose

Parties such as the BSP, the SP, the TMC, the BJD etc. also do not have any particular ideology.

13 Jan 2019 6:35 AM IST

With the latest victory, the BJPs tally in the 227-member BMC has risen to 82, while that of the Sena remains at 84. (Photo: PTI)

Defeat of tradition will help BJP in Kerala

The Emergency and then the Ayodhya movement gave the Jana Sangh and BJP the opportunity to mobilise and it grabbed it.

6 Jan 2019 12:31 AM IST

Today Samsung makes the screens that even Apple products use. Traditional and small Korean companies became global giants in this period.

We Indians need to refine our culture

Korea itself is partitioned like India into two countries, which have a dangerous border and the threat of nuclear...

30 Dec 2018 7:15 AM IST

Smriti Irani accused Rahul Gandhi of setting up a not-for-profit company, Young Indians, which then bought a commercial company, Associated Journals Ltd, and its debts worth Rs 90 crore for Rs 50 lakh. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Can we be patriotic the way we want to?

What Smriti Irani and others of her type want us to do for our country begins and ends with crying at the national...

23 Dec 2018 12:10 AM IST

Rahul Gandhi also criticised K Chandrasekhar Rao for his partys understanding with AIMIM of Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi. (Photo: @INCIndia/Twitter)

BJP, not Cong, has more of a high command'

The dissent by Congress workers and supporters against what they thought the high command was about to do expressed...

16 Dec 2018 12:10 AM IST

Voting, which began at 7 am, will end at 5 pm. (Photo: ANI)

Pollsters must be held accountable

In India we have the most complex political society of any democratic nation.

9 Dec 2018 1:33 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo: AP)

Fugitives cite our system to avoid extradition

The evidence that India produces is from agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation.

2 Dec 2018 12:21 AM IST

Nobel literature laureate Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (Photo: AFP)

Ram temple sentiment is hate, not devotion

Today the political parties and the mass media can say things, reckless things, which they perhaps hesitated from saying...

25 Nov 2018 12:07 AM IST

Rahul Gandhi is on a two-day tour of Madhya Pradesh where Assembly polls are scheduled to take place on November 28. (Photo: Twitter | @INCIndia)

Rahul should restore prestige of Gandhis

The current Congress president has often said that for him the political battle is about the kind of India that Hindutva...

18 Nov 2018 12:05 AM IST