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Remove coal block irritants fast
6 Sep 2014 11:00 PM GMTCoal mining issues are getting murkier increasingly in the country. Like the previous Congress led-government, the incumbent NDA too seems groping...
Negotiation works, not brute force
9 July 2014 10:19 PM GMTSafe return home of 46 nurses and hundreds of Indian expatriates from strife-ridden Iraq is an example of Quality Track-I Diplomacy and governance, in...
Governance and public spaces
28 Jun 2014 11:03 PM GMTNew Delhi railway station’s escalators continue to remain shut for over a few months now. The reasons may be anything, from shoddy manufacturing to...
Harsh Vardhan for steep hike in tax on cigarettes
21 Jun 2014 11:16 PM GMTTerming the health and social costs of tobacco use ‘intolerable’, health minister Harsh Vardhan has written to finance minister Arun Jaitley asking...
An idea lost in transmission
18 Jun 2014 9:08 PM GMTPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to party cadres Saturday was a timely lament that Indian media fails yet again to address the need to report on...
Twisting PM’s message on skills
9 Jun 2014 5:45 PM GMTSeldom we find an important message of the Indian Prime Minister relegated to an inside page in a national newspaper, as it was on Monday (TOI,...
Education is not only about degrees, duh!
3 Jun 2014 4:57 PM GMTThe political turf-row and the cacophony kicked up over Smriti Irani’s educational qualifications and compatibility for her job at the MHRD are...
Good governance, key to growth
21 May 2014 4:58 PM GMTThe unprecedented mandate in 2014 general elections for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spells people’s clear dictates to the Indian political leaders....
Making gods happy this festive season
7 Oct 2013 12:57 AM GMT ‘You can do it, if you are a little innovative and develop eco-friendly cisterns to use for immersion.’ The priest, known to the locality for...
WHY NO BIG IDEAS IN GOVERNANCE?
8 Sep 2013 8:32 PM GMTThe current account deficit (CAD) in India is the result of failing exports and withdrawal of foreign investments. The effect has further tilted the...
It’s about educating our ‘Falana Singhs’
7 Aug 2013 9:20 PM GMTThe ‘Falana Singh’ oath episode of panchs and sarpanchs in Punjab’s Bhatinda district on last Saturday gives a classic example of how uneasy lies the...
Just close the circuit of crime patrol
30 July 2013 8:47 PM GMTWhat is the common thread running through the sad stories like Delhi gang rape, rain-fed disaster in Char Dham and the poisoning of mid-day meals that...