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October 14, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
The uproar over Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s ‘sexist’ remarks last week – that are thought to connect karma with pay raise – is understandable, living as we do, in a gender-insensitive world. When Maria Klawe,…
October 14, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
October 14, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
The bus eases out of Amritsar and gathers speed. We are on our way to Wagah-Attari border for the evening flag lowering ceremony and i am swamped by memories of a similar visit a decade…
October 14, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
October 14, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the NDA government have shown impressive risk-taking ability on a number of fronts. This marks a refreshing change from the UPA government which seemed wedded to the status quo. However,…
October 14, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
October 14, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
Natural calamities like Cyclone Hudhud may not be in our control but how we manage them certainly is. With National Disaster Relief Force officials reporting that 70-80% of Visakhapatnam has been destroyed, economic costs of…
October 14, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
October 13, 2014, 11:03 AM IST
The Bombay High Court has done well to strike down the tax demand on Vodafone that arose from treating a seemingly underpriced rights issue of shares as a transfer pricing irregularity. The ruling brings more…
October 13, 2014, 11:03 AM IST
October 13, 2014, 11:02 AM IST
The report by a three-member medical board of doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Sunanda Pushkar’s death brings disrepute to that premier institution. The report’s language reflects infelicity of a kind…
October 13, 2014, 11:02 AM IST
October 13, 2014, 10:59 AM IST
Centuries later, books may be written about the small band of 30 who were summarily plucked from their homeland and shipped off across the waters in 2014 for the most piffling of crimes, some for…
October 13, 2014, 10:59 AM IST
October 13, 2014, 2:36 AM IST
Kailash Satyarthi has won 2014’s Nobel peace prize with Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai. He discusses his spiritual motivation, his mother’s fears, his expectations from PM Modi — and how he was almost murdered by Pakistani soldiers…
October 13, 2014, 2:36 AM IST
October 13, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
Their tales of courage and dedication are well known by now. Malala Yousafzai, one of this year’s Nobel peace prize awardees, took bullets from the Taliban because she insisted on girls’ right to education. And…
October 13, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
October 13, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
They say a week is a long time in politics. With the break-up of political alliances in Maharashtra and Haryana, the next week will likely bring about significant political realignments in both states. BJP has…
October 13, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
October 13, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
When Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, they discussed the Digital India campaign, and quite likely, how it is a natural fit for the Facebook-backed Internet.org initiative. Digital India is…
October 13, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
October 13, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
Shakespeare’s ghost and solving the Kashmir problem A metropolitan audience gazed upon a Kashmiri Hamlet. Set in the 1990s when militancy was at its peak in the Valley, the lead character Haider is a Kashmiri…
October 13, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
October 11, 2014, 12:56 PM IST
Reports say that the government is moving ahead with dispatch to replace the wholesale price index (WPI) with a more comprehensive producers price index (PPI), which would have a much broader coverage of items, products…
October 11, 2014, 12:56 PM IST
October 11, 2014, 12:54 PM IST
It seems quite unfair that the humungous, spinning mass of engorged clouds currently bearing down on coastal Andhra and Orissa with destructive intent is named after the very innocuous crested hoopoe bird, or Hudhud. After…
October 11, 2014, 12:54 PM IST
October 11, 2014, 12:52 PM IST
Even as India and Pakistan are at each other’s throats on the border, the Nobel Committee has sought to unite them in peace, by giving the 2014 Peace Prize to India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s…
October 11, 2014, 12:52 PM IST
October 11, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
Mark Zuckerberg is right in saying that one billion Indians disconnected from the Internet mean a huge waste of potential. Of course his hoody can’t hide his true target — not Internet but Facebook for…
October 11, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
October 11, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
What works best, also looks best. As this is the fundamental law of human creation, ugly objects tend to function poorly from the start. From airplanes to bullet trains, things are getting better, faster and…
October 11, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
October 11, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
A general view of Narendra Modi’s governance style is that it is an impressive mode of working: he appears brisk, decisive, engaged and demanding. After Manmohan Singh, this is a huge relief to many Indians….
October 11, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
October 10, 2014, 10:34 AM IST
The vice chancellor of Oxford University is probably not entirely correct in assuming that only a “budgerigar wishing to trace his family tree” would be interested in learning that birds are the only descendants of…
October 10, 2014, 10:34 AM IST
October 10, 2014, 10:29 AM IST
Uber, the taxi rental service accessible via a phone app, has been asked to pay service tax, and should comply. Taxi services are not on the exempt list, and are, therefore, liable to service tax….
October 10, 2014, 10:29 AM IST
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