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Indian Parliament (Photo: PTI)

Mission 2017: A happy, healthy, clean India

Agriculture employs 65 per cent of our workforce but contributes only 14 per cent to GDP.

1 Jan 2017 1:49 AM IST

Congress President Sonia Gandhi addresses party leaders during inauguration of a photo exhibition on Indira Gandhis life to mark her 100th birth anniversary celebrations at historical Swaraj Bhawan in Allahabad. (Photo: PTI)

Indispensable old guard and new poll tactics

Unlike other political leaders, BJP President Amit Shah has his own style of managing party affairs.

1 Jan 2017 1:49 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing at the launch of a new mobile app Bhim to encourage e-transactions at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Bhim app: Make it secure

An ethical hacking group recently demonstrated how it could hack a bank within three hours, of course, with the...

1 Jan 2017 1:47 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav coming out from his residence in Lucknow. (Photo: PTI)

Akhilesh finds broad support within SP

The conspiracy against Akhilesh, which some have hinted at, been defeated by the CM's supporters.

1 Jan 2017 1:47 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Modi's grip unlikely to loosen in 2017

The BJP has a big election coming up in Uttar Pradesh and also smaller ones in Punjab and Goa and then in Gujarat.

1 Jan 2017 1:45 AM IST

We might end, but here is another beginning, to give rise to another, and so it goes on. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: The end of karma

Kaalchakra, the wheel of time, rotates indefinitely.

31 Dec 2016 3:54 AM IST

Of dull paradoxes & arid oxymorons

Of dull paradoxes & arid oxymorons

It was the year when vigilantes became a lynchpin of patriotism and fundamentalists murdered with impunity.

31 Dec 2016 3:54 AM IST

2016: The year of post-truth

Demonetisation has been described by international economists as a reckless bungle .

31 Dec 2016 3:53 AM IST

Supporters of LGBT and human rights wave rainbow flags during a rally supporting a proposal to allow same-sex marriage in Taipei, Taiwan. (Photo: AP/File)

Stories of race and isolation in London

The isolationist report statistically detailed what Britain should be well aware of.

31 Dec 2016 3:14 AM IST

RBI kept interest rates unchanged despite calls for lowering it while it slashed the economic growth projection by half a per cent to 7.1 in the first policy review post demonetisation.

Year of outrageous lies

That growth fell 6% in November to 1.34 million and the industry expects it to fall by a huge 35% in December, lowest...

31 Dec 2016 3:01 AM IST

President Pranab Mukherjee (Photo: PTI)

Allow freedom to doubt

Addressing the Indian History Congress in Thiruvananthapuram, the President celebrated argumentative Indian , not ...

31 Dec 2016 2:54 AM IST

Cash worth Rs 10.5 lakh in defunct notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 was seized from a former BJP corporator near Saswad, Maharashtra. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

Note ban benefits government, not people

Arun Jaitley seems a little removed from the ground reality.

31 Dec 2016 2:54 AM IST