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The Supreme Court’s order stipulating that MPs and MLAs will be disqualified the moment they are convicted in a criminal case has been wholeheartedly...

As the 24X7 Indian news media extracts its pound of flesh from Narendra Modi, who, in a decision bordering on affront and sheer disregard, gave his...

Difference in the nutritional status of Kerala’s general rural populace and that of Attappady could be as high as 50 per cent. Kerala’s Attappady...

I was born in Calcutta in the summer of 1966. It was a time when Bengal was almost into famine but I heard my father had to wade through water to...

M K DasWhy did the return of N R Narayanamurthy to Infosys as Executive Chairman after having retired respectfully from the post at the ‘young age’ of...

The Supreme Court’s recent landmark judgment, which ensures that convicted politicians will now get immediately disqualified from contesting in...

The defection of the senior Congress legislator Rakesh Singh Chaudhury from the party on the day the no-confidence motion against the BJP-led Madhya...

Global economy’s ‘growing pains’ in 2013 has forced IMF to slash its earlier projections for all economies – advanced, emerging and other developing –...

Will Telengana become a separate state? The vexed problem is about to be solved if one goes by the mood in the Congress party. The lawmakers from...

THE revenue office of Jawhar in Maharashtra’s Thane district witnessed an unusual sight on 18 June. About 30 tribals from Anantpur village of Jawhar...

India has of late, been reaching out to its neighbours via ‘power diplomacy’. New Delhi is exploring ways of selling power to Pakistan and...

With the ouster of the newly elected President Mohamed Morsi by a military coup, the situation in Egypt may now be interpreted as being back to square...