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Govt's lateral entry move fails as babus protect turf

Until 2014, the chairmanship of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) was held by dairy professionals

31 Dec 2020 4:42 AM IST

Raj Mohan Tella | Are smart words keeping you company?

Words, narratives and the meanings associated with them all are important to brand messaging

30 Dec 2020 7:36 AM IST

Aijaz Hussain (C), the BJP candidate for the District Development Council (DDC) polls celebrates after he won a DDC seat in Srinagar on December 22, 2020. (Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP)

Anand K Sahay | After DDC: Will Centre further alienate J&K?

Much sought success in the BJP's bid to seek to stamp its political authority in J&K through the DDC polls failed to...

30 Dec 2020 7:16 AM IST

The corporate groups are not in charge of how much of its agriculture and dairy India can export. It is the government that will have to force other nations to open their markets to our farmers (Image:PTI)

Aakar Patel | Farmers won't put trust in PM, dharna unlikely to be...

Agriculture exports fell from $43 billion in 2013, before Mr Modi, to $38 billion last year

29 Dec 2020 4:35 AM IST

o make farming profitable, two things need to happen. One is that fewer people be involved in it, and the other is that farm produce gets higher prices (PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Farmers' stir link with rural distress tenuous

The suicide rate in India, an agrarian economy, was 13 per 100,000, the rate in industrialised, rich countries was often...

29 Dec 2020 4:06 AM IST

Kashmir looks ahead at a winter of discontent

Force has never worked in Kashmir, nor has our muscular policy since the abrogation of Article 370

28 Dec 2020 4:55 AM IST

Arif Mohammad Khan, just like other governors of the Indian republic, seems to care more for the interests of central government than the Constitution (Representational Image:PTI)

By not letting Assembly meet, did Arif fulfil governor's role?

The Constitution gives no discretion to the governors in the matter of convening the session of the Assembly

28 Dec 2020 4:28 AM IST

Anita Katyal | Wait for RSS' pungent takes on a Turkish drama series

The BJP is reasonably confident that it will succeed this time as Amit Shah has placed his loyalists in key positions in...

27 Dec 2020 7:20 AM IST

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Photo: AP/File)

Pavan K Varma | Politics didn't limit the enigma that was Atalji

The poet in him told him that all this was passing, a shadow play, a fleeting moment in the grand canvas of time

27 Dec 2020 7:08 AM IST

Young neurodivergents, like you, are the real X-Men (representational image)

Shreya Sen-Handley | 2020, the year I learn I am neurodivergent

Mutants with a mission to change the world for the better, you are superheroes, not villains

27 Dec 2020 6:51 AM IST

Shobhaa De | Little cheer at Xmas time, hope for a healthier 2021

As the lucky survivors of this deadly scourge, let us raise a glass to a better, healthier, saner future!

26 Dec 2020 12:59 PM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Of creativity in a plague year gadget fixing & dosa...

I have myself been exploring the idea that enforced idleness may be the chief begetter of creative genius

26 Dec 2020 12:54 PM IST