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Making of an umpire: India’s tryst with the Competition Commission of India
January 8, 2016, 10:59 AM IST
One statistical detail captures the growth pangs of India’s anti-trust watchdog perfectly. In the nearly seven years of its functioning, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has ordered penalties totalling about Rs 14,000 crore. Of…
January 8, 2016, 10:59 AM IST
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Did Mondelez India get official approvals for a factory that did not exist?
December 8, 2015, 4:20 PM IST
First, it was a phantom factory that marred Cadbury’s India story of 67 years. This March, the Central Excise department concluded that part of its plant at Baddi in Himachal Pradesh did not exist on the…
December 8, 2015, 4:20 PM IST
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Hyderabadi mojo in Seemanchal
October 28, 2015, 8:10 AM IST
Kishanganj: Mohammad Faraz articulates Asaduddin Owaisi’s appeal the best. “If he wins, it will be like Hyderabad.’” By he, Faraz means Hyderabad-based Owaisi’s party All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) which is contesting six assembly seats…
October 28, 2015, 8:10 AM IST
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Is original objective of caste-based reservation lost in muddied waters of entitlement politics?
October 21, 2015, 8:19 AM IST
Many Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and leaders believe that if their party loses the Bihar state elections, one of the key reasons would be its ideological parent Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s…
October 21, 2015, 8:19 AM IST
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How Indian companies are misusing public trusts to launder their CSR spending
October 21, 2015, 8:14 AM IST
NEW DELHI: The statutory corporate social responsibility (CSR) norms introduced two years ago were expected to revolutionise funding of social causes, but some sections of India Inc may now be abusing these for laundering of black…
October 21, 2015, 8:14 AM IST
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Neeb Karori Baba: The baba who has been magnet for tech honchos like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs
October 1, 2015, 9:53 AM IST
A few years ago, Vinod Joshi, the secretary of the trust that manages a small temple and ashram nestled in a picture-postcard valley called Kainchi near Nainital, got a call from Larry Brilliant, an American…
October 1, 2015, 9:53 AM IST
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Forest Rights Act: How rules fail in the jungle
October 1, 2015, 9:46 AM IST
Behold, my friends, the spring has come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Every seed is awakened, and all animal life….
October 1, 2015, 9:46 AM IST
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Krishna conscious
September 9, 2015, 4:03 PM IST
On September 5, Kerala witnessed a socio-political inflection point—the dominant Left party Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM’s children’s wing, Balasangham, organized processions to celebrate Janmashtami, a festival venerating Lord Krishna’s birth. The CPM’s…
September 9, 2015, 4:03 PM IST
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With industries adding few jobs, clamour for reservation may get louder
August 31, 2015, 9:59 AM IST
Social unrest of the kind seen in Gujarat could rise and spread to other states that are heavily invested in manufacturing because quality jobs are disappearing even as the number of young people searching for…
August 31, 2015, 9:59 AM IST
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With governance deficit, caste violence haunting Nitish Kumar’s regime, will he be third time lucky in Bihar?
August 11, 2015, 2:43 PM IST
When Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar hits the campaign trail later this year, it is not the caste-riven electorate he will need to really worry about. His Achilles’ heel would be his own administration which…
August 11, 2015, 2:43 PM IST
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Bihar Polls: RJD’s Lalu Prasad Yadav & JD(U)’s Nitish Kumar come together. But is the relationship real?
July 30, 2015, 2:47 PM IST
Lalua’ is a name uttered with much affection in Bihar. Lalua, or the chubby, floppyhaired Yadav leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, is the kind of guy Bihari men love to hang out with, accompanied by khaini,…
July 30, 2015, 2:47 PM IST
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Labour laws: Modi government’s effort to unilaterally push through reforms delaying process
July 14, 2015, 2:50 PM IST
On September 25, the eve of his first visit to the US as India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi wrote a signed article in the Wall Street Journal titled, ‘An invitation to make in India’. It…
July 14, 2015, 2:50 PM IST
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High hopes from Make in India may not help the government
July 8, 2015, 3:03 PM IST
The Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 conclusively proves that large parts of the country is hopelessly poor and more than half of the population exists on uncertain daily wages. What is really revealing in…
July 8, 2015, 3:03 PM IST
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How the 12-yr-old idea of Sebi-FMC merger is finally becoming a reality this September
June 30, 2015, 3:00 PM IST
Big institutional changes in India often follow big crises. The balance of payment crisis of 1990 paved the way for radical changes in the financial system, including near autonomy to the central bank. Electronic stock…
June 30, 2015, 3:00 PM IST
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Bihar: Why the politics over mangoes mixes with cold calculations of caste
June 8, 2015, 2:55 PM IST
The juiciest of stories circulating in Patna these days is chief minister Nitish Kumar denying former chief minister and estranged party colleague Jitan Ram Manjhi the joy of eating mangoes growing in his own backyard….
June 8, 2015, 2:55 PM IST
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Can the uneasy truce between PM Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat hold?
May 26, 2015, 3:06 PM IST
In December 2014, Rajeshwar Singh, a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and then head of the Dharm Jagran Samiti, raked up a storm when he reportedly helped convert 250 Muslims to Hinduism at…
May 26, 2015, 3:06 PM IST
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Dattapant Thengadi may spoil PM Modi’s first anniversary after coming to power
May 18, 2015, 3:09 PM IST
In 1999, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government was about to celebrate its first anniversary when it was hit by a broadside. Dattopant Thengadi, then a doyen of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, called Vajpayee a ‘petty…
May 18, 2015, 3:09 PM IST
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