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Hopes pinned on big meet
27 Aug 2014 4:27 AM ISTDefence cooperation will be one of the areas to come up for discussion. The US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel during his recent visit to India has...
Modi now on slippery slope
27 Aug 2014 4:25 AM ISTBJP could win only 4 seats out of ten and two of them with narrow margins, while out of the 10 seats, where by poll was held, its candidates had led...
No smooth lessons from Singapore yet
27 Aug 2014 4:20 AM ISTIndia is a giant in comparison to Singapore; more precisely, it is an anthill compared to a bee. In 1960, India had 271 times as many people as...
From rural dystopia to model village
27 Aug 2014 4:18 AM ISTAmidst surprise, Modi’s thrust on One Model Village development programme in his first fiery Independence Day speech from the rampart of Red Fort...
Extremists complicate the situation
26 Aug 2014 4:48 AM ISTAssam is on the boil now following a fast-developing sequence of events. Armed Nagas raided and burnt several villages, killing two, on Assam-Nagaland...
All the jazz about awards
26 Aug 2014 4:47 AM ISTIt is indeed sad that the country’s highest award – Bharat Ratna – has been politicized and mired in controversies for being used to reward people for...
Open letter, closed minds: DU’s Dinesh dilemma
26 Aug 2014 2:32 AM ISTDear Dr. Dinesh Singh: It was painful to read your ‘open letter’ written with a closed mind; a mind, firmly closed shut to the requirements of truth...
Hindu Rashtra and idea of India
26 Aug 2014 2:30 AM ISTFor past few days days media and political parties are engaged in debates over two statements of the RSS Sarsanghchalak, Mohan Bhagwat. Bhagwat while...
India’s thought-deficient media
24 Aug 2014 4:29 AM ISTIn the wake of the infamous Mumbai (then Bombay) blasts in 1993, then Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Sharad Pawar issued a statement which was...
Replacing Plan Commission
24 Aug 2014 4:28 AM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi has junked the Planning Commission. His announcement on the Independence Day scrapping was not a bombshell as...
Any idea where construction debris goes?
24 Aug 2014 3:37 AM ISTIndia needs a landfill the size of West Bengal to dump 21,630 million tonnes of construction and demolition (C&D) waste it will generate from...
What to expect from Modi-Obama meet?
24 Aug 2014 3:33 AM ISTIf artifice is intrinsic to diplomacy, the agenda of the meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 1 August...
Rebel, Romantic, Revolutionary
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After a gap of 5 years, India, China to resume direct flight services...
3 Oct 2025 12:45 AM ISTIsraeli airstrikes kill at least 41 people in Gaza
3 Oct 2025 12:22 AM ISTIsrael intercepts boats trying to reach Gaza, arrests activists
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