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Army’s flawed succession chain may delay increase in official retirement age
3 Jun 2013 5:51 AM ISTThe government decision to increase the age of superannuation from the current 60 years to 62 years is getting delayed on the account of its potential...
IPL has extinguished Cardus’ legacy
29 May 2013 1:11 AM ISTFirst who was Cardus, Neville Cardus? The famous cricket correspondent of Manchester Guardian, Neville Cardus is considered the most celebrated writer...
Imbibing moral values in classroom
22 May 2013 2:45 PM ISTThere has been much discussion in the newspaper columns on the positives and negatives of the proposed change in under-graduate degree programme from...
Save the anthem from disrespect
15 May 2013 7:16 AM ISTOn 8 May last as the Lok Sabha adjourned sine die, Speaker Meira Kumar in a never before stern tone warned Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) member of...
PM resisted Sonia on Kumar’s exit
13 May 2013 7:12 AM ISTCongress general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi may have spoken only half truth on Sunday. Dwivedi told reporters, ‘It has appeared in a section of the...
BJP loses Deccan foothold
9 May 2013 6:44 AM ISTOn Wednesday morning, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi startled many media pundits by saying that the outcome of the...
All prime minister’s corrupt men
8 May 2013 6:40 AM ISTFollowing the defeat of Indira Gandhi and her chosen heir Sanjay Gandhi in 1977 general elections, there was a huge spurt in anti-Congress literature....
Fabled uprising that wasn’t one
6 May 2013 10:39 PM ISTDelhi has this tendency of living two lives at once, as several incidents, including the mutiny of 1857 and peoples’ agitations of the later years...
When music is a way of life
6 May 2013 6:05 PM ISTIt was in 1985-86 that then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was trying to create a new grammar for governance. In Rajiv’s schemes, culture played an...
Pen pushers as deal makers
2 May 2013 4:56 AM ISTThe confessions of the chairman of the now bankrupt Saradha group of chit fund propelled companies made a compulsive reading. This was the first time...
Need to counter societal depravity
24 April 2013 7:14 AM ISTThe rape of a five-year-old innocent girl by a sex maniac has once again given a cause to the professional agitators to raise their voice and soar...
NDA without a guiding force
17 April 2013 5:40 AM ISTBihar chief minister Nitish Kumar by repeatedly referring to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s personality to reject the candidature of his...