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Chosen fifteen: Despite challenges, Team India can spring surprises in World Cup 2015
January 7, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
With BCCI selectors announcing Team India’s 15-man squad for the upcoming 2015 World Cup in New Zealand and Australia, the Men in Blue can start their preparations in earnest. Not only will Team India be…
January 7, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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Change of plan: Success of NITI Aayog will rest on its ability to take states along
January 7, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
NITI Aayog, the think tank which has replaced the Planning Commission, comes into being at a challenging time. India’s society in the last 10 years has arguably undergone its most far-reaching decadal transformation since Independence….
January 7, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Hazy sonrise: Both voters and ambitious politicians are pushing for more democracy in DMK
January 6, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
A fog in Chennai which disrupted flights recently was least expected as it is usually Delhi’s defining feature in winter. On the other hand, a fog is an apt metaphor when one surveys Tamil Nadu’s…
January 6, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Playing with fire: Porbandar episode exposes unhealthy political distrust between Congress and BJP
January 6, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
The tracking and destruction of a suspicious boat – reportedly originating from Pakistan – off the Porbandar coast has triggered a war of words between the BJP-led government and opposition Congress. While government maintains that…
January 6, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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China rising, India falling: IITs are an illustrative example of the dumbing down of Indian universities
January 6, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
Last September, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, gave me an honorary Doctor of Science degree. When the honour was conferred President Pranab Mukherjee, in his capacity as visitor to the institute, lamented that no Indian…
January 6, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Sense on science: PM’s call to put science and research at forefront welcome, now govt must act on it
January 5, 2015, 12:10 AM IST
Speaking at the Indian Science Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit all the right buttons by declaring that he will pay as much attention to ease of doing research and development in India as to…
January 5, 2015, 12:10 AM IST
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Pollution solution: Swachh Bharat also means Swachh Vatavaran, start discouraging diesel
January 5, 2015, 12:08 AM IST
Showing up the continuing constraints on deregulation in India, government has raised excise duty on fuel three times since November – violating the spirit of deregulation to meet its budgetary challenges, instead of wholly passing…
January 5, 2015, 12:08 AM IST
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India from outer space: Let’s take a PK look at ourselves – bigotry is becoming India’s icon
January 5, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
Voltaire’s Micromégas portrays how two giants from outer space view earthlings. They cannot understand the horrible quarrels of a puny race where one hundred thousand humans covered with hats are slaying one hundred thousand wearing…
January 5, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
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Cricket the Indian way: From Dhoni to Virat, the gentleman’s game is everyday life in India
January 3, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
Indian cricket fans were bamboozled this week by M S Dhoni’s decision to quit Test cricket — a vanishing act that even P C Sorcar would be proud of. Evidently, Captain Cool was as chilled…
January 3, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
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When it’s right to be wrong: Political attractions of regularising the irregular — colonies, farm loans, corporate debt
January 3, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
To err is human, but to keep erring is smart. This, at least, is the way it works in India. All known political parties are in a scramble today to take credit for regularising irregular…
January 3, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
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Breaking the last taboo — let’s talk about cancer, live to tell the tale
January 3, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
Not many can say boo to cancer. Put down to junk food, genes, smoking and bad luck, cancer generally has few takers. No oncologist, plastic surgeon, painkiller firm, florist, undertaker, chemo-giver, wig-weaver, prosthetic limb maker,…
January 3, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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For the BJP-led government, development and communalism go nicely together
January 3, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
Liberals in India who lost patience with the UPA government and became supporters of Narendra Modi are puzzled by the prime minister’s silence over Sangh Parivar’s growing communal interventions. They should not be. That is…
January 3, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Rowing opposite ways: Hindutva is distracting from development, Modi must rein the former in
January 2, 2015, 12:08 AM IST
In wishing Indians a happy and prosperous New Year, the president urged everyone to dedicate themselves to an inclusive society. Social cohesion is an essential prerequisite for national development and growth. In 2014, strong development…
January 2, 2015, 12:08 AM IST
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Collegium RIP: After NJAC, govt must work towards passing the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill
January 2, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
After prolonged tussle between the executive and the judiciary over the procedure to be followed for appointing judges to the Supreme Court and high courts, a presidential assent to the National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC)…
January 2, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
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Ready for take-off: 2015 can be the year when India begins to break out and realise its potential
January 1, 2015, 12:08 AM IST
To ring in the new year on a note of good cheer, consider this: crude oil prices have plunged 45% relative to where they were this time last year. It’s not just that there’s a…
January 1, 2015, 12:08 AM IST
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Amit Shah may deserve the benefit of doubt. The same cannot be said of CBI
January 1, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
A special court discharging Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case will come as a huge relief to the BJP president. For almost four years now, the case has swirled around the BJP…
January 1, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
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Towards a global tomorrow
January 1, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
India is well on its way to becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2025 (and thus the third largest on this planet after China and the US). By 2018, it will overtake Britain and become…
January 1, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
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PK, Kick, Happy New Year are biggest Bollywood blockbusters of 2014
January 1, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
TIMES VIEW By Renuka Bisht Quantity doesn’t equal quality. Ticket sales speak one truth but critical judgment can speak quite another truth. These two truths can walk very different paths. Aamir Khan starrer PK, Salman…
January 1, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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Police to also act according to law
December 31, 2014, 5:56 PM IST
The long arm of the law sometimes chooses not to stretch out and nab some influential people. Even though the number of such cases is not alarming, but in a country where politicians in power…
December 31, 2014, 5:56 PM IST
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Year of Modi: But 2015 will necessarily have to be the year of delivery
December 31, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
Narendra Modi up-ended India’s political landscape in 2014 and the year definitely belongs to him. With his virtuoso campaigning and Amit Shah as his indispensable deputy, he consistently won elections for BJP through the year….
December 31, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
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