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Opinion
Tackle this national shame
The PM’s Swachchh Bharat programme has had no bearing on this issue as VIPs go about with their photo-ops, praising the campaign.
Bleeding subsidiaries will take IL&FS belly up
Sebi too kept its eyes shut all these years despite losses mounting alarmingly.
Church sex abuse: It’s not just about religion, but also gender
In short, Sister Lucy had scored a goal. Bishop Mulakkal had lost. But the match is no longer religious. It is secular. Women 1, Men 0.
Mystic Mantra: Meditation and contemplation
Often, as one progresses in spiritual life, some questions or confusions crop up crying out for clarifications.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Change in Maldives: India must do its bit
The turnout as officially announced by the Maldives election body tells it own story.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Default tremors: Act swiftly
Jaitley is probably aware he can’t have corporate failures with elections approaching.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Emperor Xi’s ‘Voice’ war expands, don’t ignore it
In the West, more and more concerns are emerging about China’s political influence over universities, cultural organisations or ordinary citizens.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Mystic Mantra: Vedic texts should not be seen as just myths
The modern scientists now also agree that the human race was brought here from some other dimensions and gods looked over it.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Interview of the Week
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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
‘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.
‘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
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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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.
Age Debate: Rafale - Time to clear the air
A joint parliamentary committee probe is the only way to resolve Rafale controversy.
Age Debate: A new roadmap for Kashmir?
Holding municipal/panchayat polls in J&K amid the NC-PDP boycott will be a farce.
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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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.
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.
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.
Columns
The average tariff rate for WTO member countries was down to nine per cent in 2013.
The murderers have been official armies, militias and even common citizens, with at least one such event in every decade since the 1990s.
There is no need for Mr Bhagwat’s equivalent in these countries to lecture anybody on why they “should start respecting (their) own mother tongue”.
The land problem is not just one of housing shortage; it also plagues viable commercial and industrial development.
Our Columnists
Sidharth Bhatia is the Founder/Editor of The Wire and writes on politics, society and popular culture. In addition, he is a great fan of rock music.
Kishwar Desai, is the chair of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust, which is setting up the Partition Museum at Town Hall, Amritsar.
General Shankar Roychowdhury is a former Chief of Army Staff and a former member of Parliament.
The writer is a keen observer of the goings-on in the backrooms of power.
Vikram Sood is former head of the Research and Analysis Wing, India’s external intelligence agency.
