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Many may not like the usage of the term shopping for votes. Few will like to accept that the politicians treat citizens as consumers. Fewer will...

The very thought about having to undergo a strip search and cavity search by the law enforcement agencies or outlaws, does not matter if it is in a...

A problem well understood is half solved goes a popular saying. It applies in a great measure if India has to find a solution to the worsening coal...

December 21 2012 was a date in history that was anticipated for at least a decade by soothsayers and ‘doomsday enthusiasts’ as the end of the world...

For more than 1,900 citizens, only one qualified doctor. For over 3,000 people one hospital bed. New government hospitals and medical colleges are a...

She was as much a part of the city I have called home for the last 26 years as I am. After all it was her story, her fight that made me aware of the...

The national media, and as a corollary the nation, woke up to the narcotic menace prevalent in Punjab when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi highlighted...

The underdog Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stunned both the Congress and the BJP in recent Delhi Assembly election. While political pundits underestimated the...

Who gets the credit for the Lokpal Bill, which the Parliament has passed this week? Is it the Parliament, is it the UPA government, is it the main...

Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan has lived up to his reputation. He had forewarned about the impending global financial crisis in a...

In the capital, a higher voter turnout is the combined result of the two-year continuous mobilisation of people, first by Anna Hazare against...

IN A dramatic response to global warming, forests in high-elevation areas across the world have been ‘browning’ since the 1990s. A study has shown...