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Delhi delirium: Spat between Kejriwal and Jung highlights need to clarify Centre-state jurisdictions
May 19, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
The row between the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government and Delhi’s lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung, over the appointment of acting chief secretary Shakuntala Gamlin, took another ugly turn with principal secretary (services) Anindo Majumdar being locked…
May 19, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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RTI is being sabotaged by not allocating enough resources to make it work
May 19, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
India’s Right to Information (RTI) Act has caught the imagination of people in this country, while being appreciated across the world. A great change has come in India this decade in the power equation between…
May 19, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Pace that thrills: Modi sarkar must meet the expectations of voters who gave it the first majority in 30 years
May 19, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
It’s report card time and there’s a big fight over the score to be awarded. To mark its first anniversary, the NDA government plans to carpet-bomb us with success stories while Congress plans an equally…
May 19, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Mind dressing
May 18, 2015, 11:54 AM IST
For those who are aware, even partly, it is the mind that sets up the sense of dress. An adequately attired persona, finally is a positive feedback that resets the mind. The complex mind-attire exercise…
May 18, 2015, 11:54 AM IST
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A gentle thawing: Modi woos and cajoles on his China trip, achieving incremental results
May 18, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
UPA propagated the slogan “reforms with a human face”, which carries the invidious implication that reforms in themselves are inhuman. But an area that could certainly do with a human face is India-China relations, with…
May 18, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
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Green shoots of hope: A productive Parliament session suggests impasse on key legislation can be overcome
May 18, 2015, 12:03 AM IST
The second leg of Parliament’s budget session which ended last week saw all parties put in an improved effort to make it productive. In terms of attendance, it was Lok Sabha’s most productive session in…
May 18, 2015, 12:03 AM IST
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Still battling mistrust: But India and China have moved forward on economic and people-to-people ties
May 18, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
The best assessment of the outcome of Narendra Modi’s visit to China has been made by the Prime Minister himself. Twice on Friday, he referred to the inability of the two countries to fulfil their…
May 18, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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Old whine in new bottle: F stands for ‘family’ — but also for ‘factionalism’ and ‘fratricide’
May 16, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
Leo Tolstoy wrote: “Happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The Russian sage may well have been commenting, with uncanny prescience, on contemporary India’s politics of parivar. Indian…
May 16, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Mumbai’s drinking water problem
May 15, 2015, 2:34 AM IST
It’s a shame that a big city like Mumbai has to depend on the monsoon’s vagaries for its supply of drinking water. The country’s richest civic agency should find a permanent solution to this annual,…
May 15, 2015, 2:34 AM IST
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Shades of grey: Tread lightly should be the motto of tax department when enforcing black money bill
May 15, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
The Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets (Imposition of Tax) Bill, or black money bill, was passed by both houses of Parliament even when some members were uncomfortable with its contents. There is unanimity across the…
May 15, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
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Buddhist diplomacy: Stressing civilisational linkages, Modi visits Xuan Zang’s shrine in China
May 15, 2015, 12:03 AM IST
A prominent feature of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ongoing three-day China visit has been Buddhism. On the first day of his tour Modi visited two significant Buddhist sites. Both the Daxingshan Temple and the Big…
May 15, 2015, 12:03 AM IST
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No country for country folk: In chasing an aggressive development model, Modi government is riding roughshod over rural India
May 15, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
The best way to sense the prevailing mood of the country is to glance through the newspaper. India’s zeitgeist right now is a palpably aggressive model of development with buzzwords like ‘Make in India’, ‘Smart…
May 15, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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Sparse funds need better routing
May 14, 2015, 8:57 AM IST
While many roads across the Bengaluru city are desperately crying for attention, Kasturinagar seems to be blessed with a problem of plenty. The same stretch is being tarred again even though it’s in quite good…
May 14, 2015, 8:57 AM IST
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Online courses as future of education
May 14, 2015, 8:55 AM IST
Online seems to be the future of education. Easy access to university portals, their study material and classes promise to give students a wide knowledge base. It also gives students a wide choice of courses…
May 14, 2015, 8:55 AM IST
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Boldness pays: Modi government must take some tough economic calls as it completes its first year
May 14, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
As the NDA government approaches its one-year anniversary, bad economic news is threatening to rain on its parade. Investors vote with their feet. Delhi’s slow progress on big-bang reforms and a lukewarm mood in India…
May 14, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
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Terror in Karachi: Pakistan’s security forces must shed selective approach to militancy
May 14, 2015, 12:05 AM IST
Terror struck Pakistan again as gunmen boarded a bus and fired indiscriminately upon members of the minority Ismaili Shia community in Karachi, killing at least 43 people. The attack — which has been claimed by…
May 14, 2015, 12:05 AM IST
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California discovers even driverless cars have accidents
May 14, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
TIMES VIEW Still safer than us by Renuka Bisht Disclosures mandated by the California Department of Motor Vehicles have revealed that self-driving cars are not crash-proof. While this has given sceptics a new stick to beat…
May 14, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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Collegium has run its course: Even in the new NJAC system, judiciary has effective veto on appointing judges
May 13, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
India is the only country in the world where the higher judiciary is self-appointed, that is, existing judges appoint new ones. This so called collegium system has been in place since 1993, based on three…
May 13, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
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New innings: Will Jayalalithaa now shake hands with Modi to facilitate her comeback?
May 13, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
Tamil Nadu’s ruling party was rudderless for the seven months that its supreme leader, J Jayalalithaa, was in jail. That stand-in chief minister O Panneerselvam took few major policy decisions in Amma’s absence, risking policy…
May 13, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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Nepal struck again: Yesterday’s earthquakes have prime policy implications for India
May 13, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
Even as Nepal was struggling to stitch together all that was rendered asunder by the tragedy two weeks ago, it was hit by two major earthquakes and powerful aftershocks yesterday. Once again there were landslides,…
May 13, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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