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Opinion - Page 857

It’s time for Delhi to breathe easy

13 Dec 2015 3:16 AM IST
If there was ever a competition for uniting 20 million citizens of India’s national capital, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would emerge as a...

Taking stock of Paris climate debate

13 Dec 2015 3:12 AM IST
Since the day I landed in Paris to cover the much-anticipated COP 21, a few questions have been bothering me. As someone representing a developing...

Cry vendetta, stall Parliament

12 Dec 2015 2:57 AM IST
After a week of smooth functioning of the Parliament, the main opposition, i.e. the Congress has caused disruption in both houses that is obstructing...

High ambition coalition! Are you joking?

12 Dec 2015 2:55 AM IST
As I had predicted, the United States has played dirty politics at the Paris climate conference. As we move into the last two days of negotiations, a...

Intolerance at the Paris climate summit

12 Dec 2015 2:53 AM IST
As I write this, it is two days to the endgame at the Paris climate conference. There has been no real breakthrough on the contentious issues that...

BJP, Congress standoff undemocratic

12 Dec 2015 2:44 AM IST
After a cordial meeting between the Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week, it was expected that the Winter...

Islamic State: The long battle ahead

11 Dec 2015 3:20 AM IST
The Middle East is in turmoil. The crisis created by the Islamic State will take a long time to heal since the turmoil is one of ideology, although we...

‘Ducking the solution’ in Paris

11 Dec 2015 3:18 AM IST
When you enter the venue for the Paris Climate Summit, you arrive at a broad passage that leads to the array of halls and meeting rooms. The passage...

Fossil fuel firms sponsoring COP 21

11 Dec 2015 2:47 AM IST
In their recent book Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction, Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg argue...

Checking Tanzania’s gold rush

11 Dec 2015 2:43 AM IST
As the jeep bounced its way through the red dust and the bumpy narrow road, we stumbled upon what looked like a refugee settlement. But as we drove...

Climate change and the northeast monsoon

10 Dec 2015 2:50 AM IST
Heads of states from around the world are currently in Paris for climate action negotiations to arrest a dangerous rise in global temperatures. The...

Looking ahead: Water and sanitation

10 Dec 2015 2:48 AM IST
The city government has set out its vision for the future as far as water and sanitation are concerned. It wants to have 100 percent piped water...
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