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Dilemma makes Nitish enigmatic
11 April 2013 2:38 AM ISTIn September last year, soon after Trinamool Congress left the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar from...
Losing battle, just cause
4 April 2013 4:35 AM ISTThe public angst spectacles created by Arvind Kejriwal and his cohorts since the inception of India Against Corruption movement has failed to ...
Mynas sound onset of summer
28 March 2013 5:02 AM ISTEarly morning golf has regained its charms. This winter it was bad for amateur golfers like us who use the ruse of swinging the club to be in company...
At 15, Sonia still at crossroads
21 March 2013 5:24 AM ISTIn the spring of 1999, the Congress party under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi had scored a major political victory on the floor of Lok Sabha with...
The five per cent lead to Englishwalas
14 March 2013 3:57 AM ISTFew years back a colleague covering the education beat had startled me with the input that for the past several years none from Delhi University’s St...
Metamorphosis of Indian federalism
7 March 2013 4:40 AM ISTThe man credited with the framing of our Constitution, B R Ambedkar, while defining the nature of the Indian state, had mentioned, ‘The political...
Multi-tasking Chidambaram addresses core constituencies
1 March 2013 6:47 AM ISTFinance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday presented a budget in Parliament which could have been much worse given the challenges faced by the UPA-II...
Why seek apology from a de-fanged empire
28 Feb 2013 3:48 AM ISTLast week while on a visit to India, British prime minister David Cameron expressed regret, short of an apology, on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of...
Bansal takes Urban India on board
27 Feb 2013 6:48 AM ISTWeighed downed by the measures of his predecessors Mamata Banerjee and Lalu Prasad Yadav and the demands of his boss, prime minister Manmohan Singh,...
Political predators on the prowl
21 Feb 2013 3:34 AM ISTThe meeting between Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna and Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly Ajay Bhatt, who belongs to the...
Modi needs to reinvent himself
14 Feb 2013 5:18 AM ISTThe past week was politically very significant especially on the count of the course which the principal opposition the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
Jindals accused of mining gold in name of iron ore
13 Feb 2013 6:20 AM ISTThere is trouble in the offing for Congress governments in Rajasthan and at the Centre. Rajasthan High Court has taken note of what is alleged to be a...