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Karnataka home minister’s comment ducks the real issue
November 7, 2014, 7:10 AM IST
The Karnataka home minister seems to be totally confused about what his job is. Perhaps the chief minister needs to tell his colleague that he is not a research scholar studying trends in media content,…
November 7, 2014, 7:10 AM IST
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Shuffle smart: Meritocracy and efficiency should guide Modi government’s expected Cabinet shake up
November 7, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi expected to reshuffle his Cabinet and council of ministers, one person tipped to take over the defence portfolio is current Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar. Given his IIT background and…
November 7, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
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Walk the talk: Privatize Air India
November 7, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
Finance minister Arun Jaitley says the government is open to the idea of privatising loss-making public sector units as the taxpayer cannot keep underwriting losses. We couldn’t agree more. Every rupee of tax collected from…
November 7, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
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New age of policing
November 6, 2014, 7:37 AM IST
The Crime Intelligence Wing could well have Captain John Anderton as its poster boy. For, this character played by Tom Cruise in Minority Report epitomizes all that the CIW hopes to achieve prevent crime…
November 6, 2014, 7:37 AM IST
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Neonatal deaths expose poor state of government hospitals
November 6, 2014, 7:33 AM IST
1,000 neonatal deaths within a span of three months expose the poor state of government hospitals. Proper and timely care could have prevented half of these deaths. What is the use of development in other…
November 6, 2014, 7:33 AM IST
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Road fatalities are preventable and enhancing safety features in cars is the way forward
November 6, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
Contrary to a common misconception, we need to fear road accidents far more than terrorist bombs. Records show that 1,37,423 people died last year from accidents on Indian roads, the single biggest cause of accidental…
November 6, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
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Blow to Obama: Republican seizure of Senate may benefit India as well as fight against terror
November 6, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
With Republicans winning a majority in the US Senate in midterm polls, President Barack Obama is likely to be pushed outside his comfort zone in the last two years of his presidency. Election results give…
November 6, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
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India’s father and daughter: Nehru and Indira laid down principles of secularism and nationalism that today’s politicians can’t ignore
November 6, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
It is open season on Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. No opportunity is lost to demonise and denigrate father and daughter. Even October 31, the day the lady was assassinated, became a day-long festival for…
November 6, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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Red light ahead — legalising prostitution imposes cataclysmic social costs
November 6, 2014, 12:02 AM IST
NCW chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam has declared NCW’s intent to endorse legalisation of prostitution at the forthcoming consultation of the Supreme Court appointed committee reviewing government schemes, in order to achieve more effective rehabilitation and basic…
November 6, 2014, 12:02 AM IST
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Seize the moment: Reforms over the next few months will determine India’s economic performance under NDA
November 5, 2014, 12:10 AM IST
Latest tidings on the economic front have been positive. Inflation has cooled a bit, fear of runaway oil subsidies has receded and finance minister Arun Jaitley has put in place a new team ahead of…
November 5, 2014, 12:10 AM IST
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Capital polls: Delhi’s political vacuum set to end
November 5, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
For the last eight months there has been no government in Delhi, a long political vacuum that is undesirable in democracy. It is therefore heartening that polls are now likely as numerous projects have been…
November 5, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
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Global harmony RIP: Relevance of international institutions is declining while global conflicts remain endemic
November 5, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
Three summits in quick succession — the APEC meeting in Beijing, the annual East Asia Summit (EAS) in Naypyidaw and the G-20 summit in Brisbane — will bring together a host of world leaders, including…
November 5, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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Message from Wagah: Suicide bombing demonstrates Pakistan’s real challenge is from within, not from India
November 4, 2014, 12:10 AM IST
Strapping border guards lowering flags and closing gates at the Attari-Wagah border every day with a carefully constructed choreography of contempt, martial music and macho-comic aggression have long symbolised the India-Pakistan face-off. The tragic suicide…
November 4, 2014, 12:10 AM IST
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End moral policing: Kiss of love must not be countered by lathi of frustration and hate
November 4, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
It is deeply shocking that policemen joined toughs from Hindu and Muslim right-wing organisations in thwarting Kochi’s non-violent “kiss of love” protests, whose lawfulness was not questioned by the Kerala high court when the issue…
November 4, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
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Disrupt and grow: Modi can fulfil expectations only through disruptive innovation in government
November 4, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
Last decade has seen disruptive innovation upend many traditional models. Mobile devices have disrupted the PC business. IRCTC has disrupted railway touts. Cloud delivered enterprise solutions have disrupted enterprise software makers. Netflix has ended the…
November 4, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo crashes during test flight, kills pilot
November 4, 2014, 12:02 AM IST
TIMES VIEW Commercial space travel soon Rudroneel Ghosh The tragic crash of Virgin Galactic spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, that killed one pilot and injured another during a test run is indeed a setback to commercial space travel…
November 4, 2014, 12:02 AM IST
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Gleeful grandparents
November 4, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
Children have children. That means some of us are grandparents three times over. And grandparents have only one role. To get even with their children for past slights, indiscretions and sleepless nights. They camouflage it…
November 4, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
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‘Kiss of love’ movement: Spectacle serves its purpose
November 3, 2014, 2:18 AM IST
The spectacle served its purpose. The kissing may have been more like pecking, and stolen ones at that, but the moral brigade turning out in force to break up the event only highlights what the…
November 3, 2014, 2:18 AM IST
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Bharatiya Dominant Party
November 3, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
by Ashok Malik After the success of BJP in Maharashtra and Haryana, the prospect of single-party domination in Indian politics is being discussed more than at any point in a generation. How far can BJP…
November 3, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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Ostracize the imam: He panders to the worst misconceptions about Muslims
November 3, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
The shahi imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, has claimed to speak for the “Muslims of India” in his invitation to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his refusal to invite the Indian…
November 3, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
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