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Better, faster Net options needed

Information provisioning, more than that available, can help consumers compare and decide on their purchases.

10 Feb 2017 4:35 AM IST

There are allegation that from November 15 to November 18, the bank manager had issued 149 demand drafts for amounts less than Rs 50,000 in favour of a Pune-based finance company in violation of RBI guidelines.

Dressed-up Budget figures can't hide reality

The decline in lending to industry was focused on the infrastructural sector, with power and telecommunications setting...

10 Feb 2017 4:27 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in the Rajya Sabha in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

A regrettable personal attack

It seemed that Modi was somehow determined to name Singh as a corrupt person, but could only do so in an oblique, crafty...

10 Feb 2017 12:50 AM IST

Supreme Court of India

Stern steps needed on wayward judge

Justice Karnan has a lot to answer for when he faces the full force of the judiciary as he stands in the dock.

10 Feb 2017 12:46 AM IST

Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi addressing an election rally in Aligarh. (Photo: PTI)

To restore glory, Congress must do well in UP

There is also a broad consensus among those who are not loyalists that the Congress has not done enough to win back...

10 Feb 2017 12:43 AM IST

US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Daymare' of the Trump presidency

The sort of monochrome absolutism that Trump espouses was once the credo of another leader who too believed himself...

10 Feb 2017 12:42 AM IST

US President Donald Trump stands with British Prime Minister Theresa May in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (Photo: PTI)

Amid raging Brexit row, a middle way eludes UK

It remains to be seen how Labour will decide to vote if its amendments are defeated, which seems likely.

9 Feb 2017 6:07 AM IST

Maharashtras Class XII Sociology textbook has a chapter on dowry.

Keep prejudice out of school textbooks

The book happened to be published by a reputed firm, which also prints textbooks used in hundreds of schools in the...

9 Feb 2017 6:06 AM IST

Triple talaq has been distorted in India, and its far more important to ban this than use it as a wedge to encroach on Muslim personal laws. (Photo: PTI)

Men battle over women's rights

Banning triple talaq' is a human rights issue, politics should be kept out of it.

9 Feb 2017 5:37 AM IST

Swami Vivekananda

Mystic Mantra: Aam aadmi in God's election

The story of young David and gigantic Goliath is well known.

9 Feb 2017 4:56 AM IST

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What the Harappa seals really say

The politics of Hindutva are not the only brand of politics implicated by the seals.

9 Feb 2017 4:43 AM IST

RBI governor Urjit Patel (Photo: PTI)

Mixed signals from RBI

The importance of lower rates is vital, specially for manufacturing that is languishing, and so is private investment.

9 Feb 2017 4:33 AM IST