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WB polls: Yechury ambivalent on tie-up with Congress
27 Feb 2016 4:21 AM ISTCommunist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday indicated his party’s ambivalent stand vis-à -vis a tie-up with the...
Reporters as ‘tamasha’ performers
25 Feb 2016 3:39 AM ISTYour reporter is a conservative journalist, a breed I would not say is fast getting extinct. Now, what’s a journalist in conservative form? Well,...
Target secession, not campus
18 Feb 2016 3:33 AM ISTThere is this Member of Parliament from East Delhi (Mahesh Giri) who on the advice of some soothsayer has rechristened himself as Maheish Girri,...
Uttar Pradesh: Poll time, party time
11 Feb 2016 2:45 AM ISTPoll times are party times. If the polls happen to be in the nation’s politically most significant state – Uttar Pradesh, parties would be in plenty....
High ratings for govt misleading
4 Feb 2016 2:58 AM ISTYour reporter isn’t very literate when it comes to the subject of economics. At least, I do not understand the kind of economics that ferrets out...
Free campuses of political patronage
28 Jan 2016 2:47 AM ISTWe are in the midst of Republic Day celebrations. With the French president in town, the media space has been grabbed by issues related to terrorism...
Need political will, not FBI report
21 Jan 2016 3:21 AM ISTThe media last week went to town with Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi’s observations that socialite Sunanda Pushkar, wife of former Union Minister...
To take on Pak, dump drug peddlers
14 Jan 2016 3:08 AM ISTOne of the most intriguing reactions to the recent terror attack on the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot came from Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab...
Mufti dead: J&K loses its man of the hour
8 Jan 2016 5:42 AM ISTOn the eastern periphery of the national Capital right on Delhi-Noida border is a colony developed by the DDA in the early 1990s. Christened as...
Military as non-state player
7 Jan 2016 3:21 AM ISTSometime in the 1950s, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had called his Chief of Army Staff General KS Thimayya for an urgent meeting. Gen Timmy,...
Paying the price for patronage
31 Dec 2015 2:56 AM ISTMy heart goes out to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. I for certain don’t doubt his integrity. But that certainly does not absolve the Delhi and...
Kotla of Feroze Shah
24 Dec 2015 3:07 AM ISTTo those who follow Indian history, a medieval structure in the heart of Delhi making news headlines may sound queer. If not queer, certainly...