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Bet your brain: What does it mean to “get smarter”?
4 Dec 2016 3:02 AM ISTIn the last few years, we have seen a few IT barons betting their millions on ideas considered quixotic by mainstream scientists. First, there was the...
Bhopal gas tragedy: 32 years later
4 Dec 2016 3:01 AM ISTBhopal is observing the 32nd anniversary of a major industrial tragedy which took place on the night of 2nd and 3rd December 1984. During that night...
Validation of India's drug patent policy
4 Dec 2016 3:00 AM ISTIf ever India needed an explicit endorsement of its laws on intellectual property rights (IPRs) and their application in meeting public health...
India-Israel ties: Growing warmth
4 Dec 2016 2:58 AM ISTIsraeli President Reuven Rivlin's November 14-21 visit to India came a year after President Pranab Mukherjee visited Israel in October 2015. In the...
Explaining how social media accounts are hacked
3 Dec 2016 2:54 AM ISTAs the news of Congress Party and its Vice President Rahul Gandhi's Twitter accounts being hacked spread like wildfire on Thursday, cyber experts were...
Govt in denial over public health issue
3 Dec 2016 2:51 AM ISTTall, lean and dark, Jaiprakash was an average 11-year-old who loved galli cricket and chips. Then, to his dismay of his parents, the peppy...
Parliament session deadlocked yet again
3 Dec 2016 2:49 AM ISTThe month- long winter session of Parliament, which began on November 16, seems to be heading for another washout. Unfortunately, no major business...
Revenge of the rich
3 Dec 2016 2:46 AM ISTWhat does the ascension of Donald Trump to US presidency mean for climate change? Also, what does Trump mean for our interconnected and globalised...
Can digital villages inspire transition to cashless
2 Dec 2016 3:20 AM ISTEvery household has a savings account that can be accessed through mobile phones via SMS. Most local financial transactions happen through mobile...
Putin now in stronger position on Syria
2 Dec 2016 3:19 AM ISTBefore US President-elect Donald Trump goes back on his pre-election promises and reverses his rhetoric under pressure of think-tanks and the elite...
Modi trying to control irreversible damage
2 Dec 2016 3:14 AM ISTBarring the infamous emergency of 1975 enforced by Indira Gandhi, India's millions had not been thrown into a convulsion on a scale wrought by Prime...
Enough gaps in revised GST laws
2 Dec 2016 3:12 AM ISTAhead of the GST Council meeting on December 2 and 3, the Finance Ministry recently put on its website the revised drafts of the model GST laws, as...
A Republic in Ruins
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Trump says he and Xi will meet at APEC, he'll go to China, TikTok deal...
19 Sept 2025 10:37 PM ISTLosing 'Gone Girl' role was an 'ego check', says Reese Witherspoon
19 Sept 2025 10:29 PM ISTRajinikanth’s 50 year cinematic journey lights up Chennai streets
19 Sept 2025 10:25 PM ISTAssam Rifles jawan killed by gunmen in Manipur's Bishnupur
19 Sept 2025 9:15 PM ISTSocio-educational survey of backward castes will not be postponed:...
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