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Threat of rising food prices

23 Nov 2013 6:29 AM IST
If the prices of food articles in October this year increased by an overall 18.19 per cent as per the government data, things look much worse this...

Kill the foreign pill

23 Nov 2013 6:27 AM IST
Back in 2003, George Washington University (GWU) started the GWU India Project, a project that gave dramatic insights into how the ‘business’ of...

Politics on a collision course

22 Nov 2013 6:19 AM IST
The other is former PM Begum Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led 18-party alliance, which includes two rabidly communal parties – the...

Rupee fall and supply rigidities

22 Nov 2013 6:18 AM IST
India’s economic ills emerge too daunting, from the latest OECD Economic Outlook, with persisting high inflation, fiscal balance under challenge,...

Victim’s letter that went unheeded. Excerpts

22 Nov 2013 6:17 AM IST
Dear ShomaIt is extremely painful for me to write this email to you – I have struggled with finding an easier way to say it, but there isn’t one. The...

Purifying contaminant

22 Nov 2013 5:12 AM IST
Lakes with high phosphorous levels remove over seven times more nitrogen than lakes with low phosphorous levels. This is because phosphorous plays a...

Vanishing islands of Bangladesh

22 Nov 2013 5:10 AM IST
The tranquility on the banks of the Meghna river in Bhola gives no inkling of the scale of destruction this island district in Bangladesh has...

Pawning stalwarts for petty gains

22 Nov 2013 5:08 AM IST
A new trend has unfortunately emerged in national politics, particularly during the poll campaign, to bring to the focus country’s national leaders of...

Pensions and transparency

22 Nov 2013 5:06 AM IST
The abrupt exit of Yogesh Agarwal as the Chairman of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) in the middle of this month has...

India’s false prestige in space

22 Nov 2013 5:05 AM IST
Militant-nationalist euphoria is invariably conjured up whenever India conducts a seemingly sophisticated scientific experiment or makes lethal bombs,...

The Indo-Pak feel good Google gag

21 Nov 2013 4:23 AM IST
The Google ad on India and Pakistan displaying heaps of love. It is very cleverl made ad. It takes us on what is now irrelevant and wrings false tears...

Reviving the rare ‘kala cotton’ of arid Kutch

21 Nov 2013 4:21 AM IST
But a British-based research project has helped in reviving this traditional craft, renewed the livelihood of many families and promises to make it...
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