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Shifting lines: Most countries recognise limits to free speech though they differ on where to draw the line
January 14, 2015, 12:08 AM IST
The barbaric killing of the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo is not the sort of incident that tends to push us towards dispassionate responses. It is understandable, therefore, that the revulsion at the attack should have…
January 14, 2015, 12:08 AM IST
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Is Niti Aayog’s sole purpose to deflect the impression that Modi’s government is short of professionals?
January 14, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
Government has replaced the anachronistic Planning Commission with Niti Aayog. Such is the fractious nature of our current polity that even on this rather non-contentious issue, a consensus looks difficult. So the question arises whether…
January 14, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
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Heat is on: Mamata won’t take it lying down as CBI closes the Saradha net around her
January 14, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
In summoning Trinamool Congress general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Mukul Roy for questioning in the Saradha chit-fund scam, CBI is now tantalisingly close to fulfilling West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s prophetic listing of…
January 14, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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Capital showdown: As Delhi heads for polls, the hope is of a stable government
January 13, 2015, 9:43 AM IST
The bugle has been sounded for the 2015 Delhi assembly polls around a year since the capital had its last elections. Much has changed in these 13 months: there is a new government, armed with…
January 13, 2015, 9:43 AM IST
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Vibrant states: Their investment summits show that competition is effective — in both economics and politics
January 13, 2015, 9:41 AM IST
It’s been a season of investment summits hosted by states as chief ministers roll out the red carpet to court investors with the aim of eventually boosting jobs. Competitive federalism, a term used by PM…
January 13, 2015, 9:41 AM IST
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Lankan voters bowl a Muralitharan doosra, Rajapaksa returns to pavilion
January 13, 2015, 12:08 AM IST
In cricket parlance, the doosra is the offspinners’ version of a googly, meant to confuse a bats-man to play a poor shot and lose his wicket. Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan was acknowledged a master…
January 13, 2015, 12:08 AM IST
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Will gunmen get me too? Ending terror requires that Islam is reformed, modernised
January 13, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
A few years ago, I was invited to visit the Charlie Hebdo office. I was bowled over by the work of their brilliant and talented cartoonists. Their struggle for freedom of expression at the risk…
January 13, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
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Farewell, so long
January 13, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
We don’t know how we will manage without you but we will start trying ASAP What if you were given the 5 o’clock letter? It said that because of a reorganisation of the company’s structure…
January 13, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
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Their investment summits show that competition is effective — in both economics and politics
January 13, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
It’s been a season of investment summits hosted by states as chief ministers roll out the red carpet to court investors with the aim of eventually boosting jobs. Competitive federalism, a term used by PM…
January 13, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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As Delhi heads for polls, the hope is of a stable government
January 13, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
The bugle has been sounded for the 2015 Delhi assembly polls around a year since the capital had its last elections. Much has changed in these 13 months: there is a new government, armed with…
January 13, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Fall of a strongman: Lessons from Sri Lanka on the limits of centralised power
January 12, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
The defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa in the Sri Lankan presidential election does not automatically mean an end to the country’s political and economic problems but it has helped avert the disasters that surely lay ahead…
January 12, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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Lanka’s new hope: New Delhi and Colombo must script a fresh understanding on bilateral ties and Tamil issue
January 12, 2015, 12:01 AM IST
With the ouster of Mahinda Rajapaksa in last week’s presidential elections in Sri Lanka, this island nation has got a crucial opportunity to heal the wounds of the past. Though the Rajapaksa regime had militarily…
January 12, 2015, 12:01 AM IST
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Unity government: BJP and PDP should overcome differences and rescue J&K from governor’s rule
January 12, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
The most politically perceptive comment on the day his state delivered a hung assembly verdict came from outgoing CM Omar Abdullah. Relieved at not being wiped out as many polls had wrongly predicted, the NC…
January 12, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Aerial ancestors: In ancient times, the country was already an advanced manufacturing hub!
January 10, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
If the conclusions of the 102nd annual Indian Science Congress, held in Mumbai recently, are to be believed there is really nothing new under the Indian sun, not even Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in…
January 10, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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A different kind of ghar wapsi: 100 years ago, Gandhi returned from South Africa with the spiritual power to turn citizens into heroes
January 9, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
When South Africans meet Indians, they often say with justifiable pride: “You gave us a Gandhi, we returned you a Mahatma.” When Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returned to India from South Africa on 9 January 1915,…
January 9, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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Modernisation awaited: Leave alone high-tech equipment, army’s even short of high-altitude boots
January 9, 2015, 12:01 AM IST
At a time when India and Pakistan are engaged in a battle of attrition at the border and the Line of Control, continuing shortages of high-altitude necessities for our troops are alarming. The latest report…
January 9, 2015, 12:01 AM IST
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Cartoons are us: Terrorist attack on French magazine is a clarion call to defend free press everywhere
January 9, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
There is only one way to describe the bloody assault on the offices of the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, which took 12 innocent lives. This was a barbaric atrocity, a cold-blooded murder that no…
January 9, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Corporal punishment still part of Indian education system
January 8, 2015, 7:05 AM IST
It’s shocking that school teachers still resort to corporal punishment to make students learn. The woman teacher, whose thrashing landed a student in hospital, must realize that using a stick only stymies a student’s overall…
January 8, 2015, 7:05 AM IST
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A new coin for a new India, finally featuring a business icon
January 8, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
The first new coin of the year was released this week, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is unique, being the first ever Indian coin commemorating an industrialist. It marks the 175th birth anniversary of…
January 8, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
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Tangled evidence: Forensics deficit and delays undermine credibility of police even in high-profile cases
January 8, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
The Delhi Police’s decision to file murder charges in the Sunanda Pushkar death case raises more questions than answers. Why has the FIR been filed around a year after the death in a case where…
January 8, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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