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Let civil laws be

The panel has also maintained the integrity of independent thought in stating that the UCC is not desirable at this stage.

Sunday, September 02, 2018

Law never takes its own course in India

As we now know, the Supreme Court is to hear this again on September 6. Many of us will be watching what it does with great interest.

Sunday, September 02, 2018

DRDO gets a new chief

The UP IAS Association had also raised a strong objection on government adopting such practice against their cadre in contravention of the DoPT rules.

Sunday, September 02, 2018

Interview of the Week

‘Data confirms economic cost of DeMo was higher than benefits...’

There will also be some offsetting increase in revenues, given the effect on oil prices on inflation, says Arvind Virmani.

Sunday, September 02, 2018

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Ruling on ‘migrating’ SC/ST needs review

It’s not clear how many SC/ST people actually migrate to other states in search of education or jobs.

Saturday, September 01, 2018

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Breakthrough in Jakarta

These athletes have had a more modern training system to hone their skills and a generous reward system to recognise their efforts.

Saturday, September 01, 2018

Oped

Religion is sacred, recipes are not

The term “jerk” doesn’t mean that the curried victim — pig or chicken — was executed by snapping its neck.

Saturday, September 01, 2018

Oped

Mystic Mantra: True education, true knowledge

Elimination of all false notions is the true purpose of knowledge.

Saturday, September 01, 2018

Interview of the Week

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 Kerala health minister Shailaja interacts with her Karnataka counterpart on the Covid-19 situation. (DC Photo)

How Kerala flattened the curve, lowest death rates: Health minister Shailaja explains

Health department constituted 18 expert groups in training health care staff for detailed stock-taking of beds, equipment in each hospital

Hemant Soren

‘I don’t support laws that go against Preamble’

We can’t make people stand in queue again like the way it happened during demonetisation, says Hemant Soren.

Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit

‘The attack on JNU was barbaric in the least’

All the claims being made by the AAP in the areas of education and health are hugely exaggerated and we will expose them, says Sandeep Dikshit

Dr Robert Dickson Crane

Let Muslims be like Franciscans, espousing faith

A totalitarian system would reduce the possibility of a confederation of peoples.

The Age Debate

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A file photo of the disqualified MLAs at Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru.

Age Debate: A win for BJP and the disqualified, really?

The BJP is elated as it can look to their support - if they win the bypolls - to shore up their numbers.

French President Francois Hollande (Photo: AP)

Age Debate: Rafale - Time to clear the air

A joint parliamentary committee probe is the only way to resolve Rafale controversy.

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Age Debate: A new roadmap for Kashmir?

Holding municipal/panchayat polls in J&K amid the NC-PDP boycott will be a farce.

The NRC in Assam is a welcome beginning and all political parties should join hands with one belief that the nation comes first.

Age Debate: Targeting aliens or citizens?

It will be premature to extend the NRC to the whole of India at this juncture.

Reporter's Diary

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An SP leader said that this was a “more peaceful way of communicating with the media.

Reporters' Diary: Keeping media at bay

UP Chief minister Yogi Adityanath also does not take questions in his press conferences that are, in any case, few and far in-between.

Simmering with rage, Mr Khan now stays away from party functions, including iftar, does not communicate with party leaders and has stopped meeting Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Reporters' Diary: Angrily yours

As the probe began, the SP chose to turn a blind eye to the development and did not issue a single statement in support of Mr Khan.

The spokespersons have conveniently forgotten the murky bungalow episode and are not even bothering to ask the Yogi Adityanath government to produce the inventory about items that were claimed to have gone missing when Mr Yadav vacated the bungalow.

Reporters' Diary: Happy holidays!

A number of social organisations also made the similar demand.

The ones that are available are in townships that are developing on the outskirts of the state capital and are not ready to move in.

Reporters' Diary: EX-CMs in UP go house hunting

The problem is that with the Lucknow skyline going up, bungalows with sprawling lawns are now a rarity.

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