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When celebrating progress on NSG and MTCR, thank Manmohan Singh and the Indo-US nuclear deal
June 9, 2016, 12:15 AM IST
The BJP opposed the Indo-US nuclear deal, tooth and nail. When he became Prime Minister, Narendra Modi hailed the Indo-US nuclear deal as the centerpiece of a new strategic partnership between the world’s largest and…
June 9, 2016, 12:15 AM IST
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World is better off with Hillary Clinton
June 9, 2016, 12:11 AM IST
What is truly significant about Hillary Clinton becoming the Democrats’ nominee for president of the US is not shattering glass, as many focusing on the gender dimension of the development would have us believe, but…
June 9, 2016, 12:11 AM IST
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Modi in Congress: After The Greatest and Before America Is Won
June 8, 2016, 11:21 PM IST
Apart from myself, I know two other Indians in India watching TV who weren’t listening to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he delivered his address to the US Congress. One was on the phone trying…
June 8, 2016, 11:21 PM IST
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Udta North Korea: Pahlaj Nihalani flies high at the Film Certification Board
June 8, 2016, 3:50 PM IST
Anurag Kashyap has said, after CBFC head Pahlaj Nihalani wanted him to take Punjab out of his film ‘Udta Punjab’, that he has always wondered what it would be like to live in North Korea…
June 8, 2016, 3:50 PM IST
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This time round, PM Narendra Modi will have to address American concerns
June 8, 2016, 1:04 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the American capital as we speak for his third and last summit with President Barack Obama and to make India’s case in front of the US Congress. The overarching…
June 8, 2016, 1:04 AM IST
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Mathura Violence: The inside story
June 7, 2016, 2:56 PM IST
Just like in Mahabharat era when the most powerful race of the Yadavs had brought about their own destruction, the violence at Mathura’s Jawahar Bagh that killed 29 people evokes many similarities under Samajwadi Party…
June 7, 2016, 2:56 PM IST
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Mathura’s Jawahar Bagh is ghastly but what about encroachments in your neighbourhood?
June 7, 2016, 10:19 AM IST
There’s plenty of blame to go around in Mathura. The only way the Swadheen Bharat Subhash Sena could build a 280 acre fiefdom complete with its own armory in the neighbourhood of a district court,…
June 7, 2016, 10:19 AM IST
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Tamil Nadu’s welfare politics is being copied in other states since it yields rich electoral dividends
June 7, 2016, 12:40 AM IST
What struck me the most on my recent visit to Tamil Nadu during the assembly election campaign were the Amma canteens. The canteens are not new and have been part of the Tamil Nadu landscape…
June 7, 2016, 12:40 AM IST
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Environment part of sustainable progress
June 7, 2016, 12:24 AM IST
Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan unleashed a storm with his post against environmental fundamentalism on Facebook. The comments come in the backdrop of opposition to efforts to revive the 20-year-old proposal for the 163 MW…
June 7, 2016, 12:24 AM IST
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Congress lacks leadership, not strategy
June 6, 2016, 12:46 PM IST
Congressmen in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh are busy taking lessons from strategist Prashant Kishor as part of their overall blueprint for resurrection in the country. This is a classic case of missing the woods for…
June 6, 2016, 12:46 PM IST
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Worrying signs of political instability
June 6, 2016, 4:53 AM IST
There are times in the history of a nation when the king reigns in apparent peace but the kingdom falls apart in slow motion. A good example of this from recent history is India in…
June 6, 2016, 4:53 AM IST
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If Rajan exits, so will billions in investment
June 5, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
The BJP’s loose cannon Subramanian Swamy has launched a scathing attack on RBI governor Raghuram Rajan, accusing him of tight money policies that have ruined Indian industry, saddled the banks with bad debts, and slowed…
June 5, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
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Holiday’s over for the prince who’d rather not be King Cong
June 5, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
“Won’t you come into my parlour, said the spider to the fly….” How can one forget the slightly sinister undertones embedded in the familiar nursery rhyme? That’s the thing about nursery rhymes and fairy tales…
June 5, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
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To Africa from India, with bumbling love
June 4, 2016, 6:35 AM IST
That Vice-President Hamid Ansari is the first Indian vice-president to visit the African nations of Tunisia and Morocco in 50 years is testament to how India and the African continent have failed to build on…
June 4, 2016, 6:35 AM IST
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At last, some nuclear fusion?
June 4, 2016, 6:24 AM IST
The great hope from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fourth visit to the US is to seal the deal for an American nuclear reactor, put the contentious history behind and move on. If a contract between…
June 4, 2016, 6:24 AM IST
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The Indianisation of America, or the end of Francis Fukuyama
June 3, 2016, 11:36 AM IST
Often, in analysis of Indian politics and particularly of poll results, anti-incumbency is taken to be a natural force. I think this is a platitude: it is not enough to talk about anti-incumbency as a…
June 3, 2016, 11:36 AM IST
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Poll nos foretell a tough test for BJP in UP
June 3, 2016, 7:01 AM IST
Now that the Modi government’s second anniversary celebrations are over, it is time to take a hard look at the Assembly elections numbers to make sense of the next round of polls in 2017. And…
June 3, 2016, 7:01 AM IST
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Haryana Jat agitation: Time to act Mr Khattar; mere lip service is not enough
June 2, 2016, 10:30 AM IST
Haryana is bracing itself for another Jat agitation as a section of the community is determined to revive their agitation for quota in government jobs from June 5. This should strike fear in the hearts…
June 2, 2016, 10:30 AM IST
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United behind Rahul
June 2, 2016, 10:08 AM IST
Captain Amarinder Singh says that Sonia Gandhi says it is time to pass the baton. What many Congress well-wishers would really like is a proper election for her successor. But it’s hard to see which…
June 2, 2016, 10:08 AM IST
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The real story behind Sonia Gandhi’s ‘Shahenshah’ dig at Narendra Modi
June 1, 2016, 1:48 PM IST
While all TV news channels had Congress President Sonia Gandhi hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for thinking he is ‘Shahenshah’ rather than ‘Pradhan Sevak’, only a few could read the larger imprint of…
June 1, 2016, 1:48 PM IST
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