Home > Editor's Desk
Editor's Desk - Page 2
For safer roads
16 Sept 2014 9:40 PMThe Union government’s decision to establish a central body to address concerns pertaining to road safety all across the country is an important step...
Apex error and unfair demand
16 Sept 2014 9:40 PMSupreme Court’s bizarre order asking Prashant Bhushan to disclose the name of the of whistleblower who apparently handed over the original entry...
Tread as you must
15 Sept 2014 9:39 PMIt is a bold move from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to amend the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 after 13 years. The draft of the new Road...
Chroniclers of a war not foretold
15 Sept 2014 9:39 PMAs the world shudders and shivers staring at the third beheading video released by the dreaded ISIS – this time slaying British aid worker David...
Hic hic hurray
13 Sept 2014 9:43 PMKerala’s 730 liquor shop owners, whose licences were on the verge of cancellation, can breathe a sigh of relief for now. Sense has finally prevailed...
More skeletons in UPA closet
13 Sept 2014 9:43 PMThere seems to be no end to the dark tunnel that the former UPA government had dug in its two-term tenure at the centre. Vinod Rai, former Comptroller...
Scots on the rocks
12 Sept 2014 10:57 PMOn 18 September, a three hundred-year-old union between England and Scotland can be dissolved if the latter votes, in a referendum, to become free of...
No time to dig up differences
12 Sept 2014 10:56 PMThere is a time and place for everything. The unprecedented floods in Jammu and Kashmir is one instance when every ounce of mutual difference of...
Bird’s eye view
11 Sept 2014 11:08 PMDisregard for environmental concerns has again taken the driver’s seat and this time the UP’s forest department has allowed construction of a two lane...
Ranjit Sinha, the real slim shady?
11 Sept 2014 11:07 PMRanjit Sinha has indeed queered the pitch of what constitutes the topmost probing body in this country. With a slew of allegations staring him right...
Lives over prices
10 Sept 2014 10:34 PMSerum Albumin, the critical life saving drug has vanished from the medicine markets of the nation. What is interesting is, that this is not the first...
Catastrophes and the welfare state
10 Sept 2014 10:33 PMNothing can underscore the importance of a state in control of public assets and services as a natural calamity. Catastrophes need concerted and...