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Bike-sharing schemes

15 Jun 2017 8:24 PM IST
Almost a hundred Chinese cities now have bike-sharing schemes. The bikes, in various colours, have GPS trackers and can be unlocked simply by scanning...

GST & cooperative federalism

14 Jun 2017 9:27 PM IST
With barely a fortnight to go, the lingering question with a significant import on the efficient functioning of the domestic economy pertains to...

Splinter groups may instigate China

14 Jun 2017 8:46 PM IST
The death of Shangwang Shangyung Khaplang, the 77-year-old leader of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) faction named after him, puts a...

Universal pensions from government?

14 Jun 2017 9:12 PM IST
As India ages, over 61 per cent of elderly will have no income security by 2050, inform Kinjal Sampat and Nandini Dey.

Sustainable development and oceans

14 Jun 2017 9:10 PM IST
James Fahn proposes navigating towards a 'Paris Agreement for the oceans'.

From debt trap to suicide

13 Jun 2017 9:02 PM IST
Father of the Green Revolution, Professor MS Swaminathan tweeted last week: "If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will go right. That's why@AgriGoI...

Fatal move towards deregulation in US

13 Jun 2017 8:30 PM IST
Twice in two weeks, the US has taken steps that will have dire repercussions on a global scale.First, it was the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate...

Ayub Khan moment not for India

13 Jun 2017 8:28 PM IST
Historian and political theorist Partha Chatterjee cannot be expected to applaud the efforts of Government of India, which is led by the right-wing...

Changes in cloudiness

13 Jun 2017 8:26 PM IST
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that this year's monsoon rainfall will be around 98 per cent of the long-period average, which...

Linguistic logic & land's law

12 Jun 2017 9:16 PM IST
Fact is fact; and (unpleasant) fact is, India attained divided freedom on ground of religious "great divide", euphemistically referred to, by the...

Reflections in the Mirror

12 Jun 2017 9:14 PM IST
Sir Edmund Burke's last stanza from "Mirror" is very telling of our times. So never be concernedif wrinkles/extra flab appearFor one thing I've...

Healthcare: Challenges & opportunities

12 Jun 2017 7:52 PM IST
India added 450 million people over the 25 years to 2016, a period during which the proportion of people living in poverty fell by half. This period...
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