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Social media, unsocial politics
5 July 2013 11:13 PM IST‘Social media are the worst menace to society,’ said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, on 2 June. Many in India, the political class in...
Bollywood craze grips Ethiopian youth
5 July 2013 11:11 PM ISTBollywood craze appears to have gripped Ethiopian youth. They are willing to sit through a usually three-hour-long movie at a shanty-house with only...
Egypt: To coup or not to coup
5 July 2013 11:09 PM ISTImagine this scenario. It’s August 2011 and Anna Hazare is sitting on his second fast at Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi to demand the enactment of Jan...
Changing world and lost opportunity
5 July 2013 11:07 PM ISTInternational behaviour is no longer predictable. Take for instance America; once it was the land of the free. For close to a hundred years its torch...
So you think you can dance?
3 July 2013 11:06 PM ISTDance institutes across India are laughing all the way to the bank, thanks to parents’ new-found fascination for TV reality shows. ‘There is a big...
Reforms can help improve sentiments towards rupee
3 July 2013 11:05 PM ISTIn the financial markets, every trader has his own style, methodology and a favourite list of fundamental and technical indicators which is developed...
Article 370 turns election agenda
3 July 2013 11:03 PM ISTJammu and Kashmir is again in the media headlines for two reasons – controversy over the demand for revocation of Article 370 and stepped-up...
As Himalayas lay bleeding
3 July 2013 11:01 PM ISTThe floods in the Himalayas have been ferocious and deadly. Fears are that the final body count could run into several thousands. There is no clear...
Governance falling through cracks
3 July 2013 10:59 PM ISTPreventive construction is economical, post-disaster management is costly. However, Indian government, bureaucrats, entrepreneurs and political...
Growth to counter caste
2 July 2013 11:01 PM ISTUrgent family commitments in Bihar and perennial problem of tickets not being available to board trains has forced frequent air travel on me to the...
Has status of women really changed?
2 July 2013 10:53 PM IST‘Tere maathe pe ye aanchal bahut hi khub hai lekin, tu iss aanchal se ek parcham banaa leti to accha tha.’Majaz Lakhnavi has rightly conveyed the...
Man-made reasons for Uttarakhand disaster
2 July 2013 10:51 PM ISTJyotsna Singh, Soma BasuUttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, two hill states in the Himalayan range, are so far the worst hit by the extreme rains that...
Turbo Charge
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Bhutan should compensate WB as floods caused by water gushing down...
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13 Oct 2025 2:15 PM ISTTwo more arrested in Durgapur rape case; all five accused now in...
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