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Converting hypocrisy: The right to convert is a religious freedom and applies to all religions
December 11, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
Religious conversions have traditionally been part of the Sangh Parivar agenda, with groups like the Bajrang Dal and VHP taking the lead in organising ghar vapsi programmes in the belief that Indian Muslims and Christians…
December 11, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
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Confronting the C word: Cancer survivorship is about changing mindsets and better medical care
December 11, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
The chances of surviving cancer are the lowest in India. This, at least, is what the results of the latest global study of the 10 most prevalent types of cancer reveals. This is no surprise…
December 11, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
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Paul Rosolie isn’t eaten by an anaconda in the documentary Eaten Alive
December 11, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
TIMESVIEW Conservation on reality TV Renuka Bisht Conservationist Paul Rosolie seems to have set a mongoose among the snakes with his documentary Eaten Alive, with complaints that he doesn’t actually get eaten alive but escapes…
December 11, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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Ban the bans: Delhi taxi rape underscores need for smart urban governance, knee-jerk bans are no answer
December 10, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
Faced with an incensed citizenry after yet another shameful rape in the nation’s capital, its administrators have overreacted by resorting to the time-honoured governmental device of a blanket ban. In a city where memory of…
December 10, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
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Putin’s visit: New Delhi and Moscow should work towards a new bilateral dynamic
December 10, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India for the 15th annual summit between the two countries comes at a critical juncture in New Delhi-Moscow ties. Gone are the days of Nehruvian socialism when India and…
December 10, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
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Modi’s Kashmir push: BJP has captured Kashmiri mindspace but will have to resolve the Jammu-Valley divide to win hearts
December 9, 2014, 12:07 AM IST
It is too early to predict whether the lotus will bloom in the Kashmir valley. Yet it seems as if the BJP’s Mission 44 in Jammu & Kashmir has partially achieved what it set out…
December 9, 2014, 12:07 AM IST
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Plan to change: Planning Commission should morph into an apolitical body to evaluate government programmes
December 9, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
In terms of symbolism, Sunday’s meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief ministers was an important step in the search for an alternative to the Planning Commission. Since its establishment in March 1950, the…
December 9, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
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Faujis who defended France: Little is known of Indian soldiers who fought World War I, in the war’s centenary it’s time to honour them
December 9, 2014, 12:03 AM IST
Exactly 100 years after the “guns of August” boomed across the European continent, the world has been extensively commemorating that seminal event. The Great War, as it was called then, was described at the time…
December 9, 2014, 12:03 AM IST
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Bangalore school rapes attest to rot in education system itself
December 9, 2014, 12:01 AM IST
It’s happened again. The rape of a three-year-old in a Bangalore school. If this is what is happening in Bangalore one shudders to think of what is happening in other parts of the country which…
December 9, 2014, 12:01 AM IST
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Grab opportunity for growth opened up by rapid fall in energy prices
December 8, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
The most important economic development of 2014 has been the dramatic fall in energy prices, particularly oil. Since July, when finance minister Arun Jaitley presented his budget, the price of Indian basket of crude fell…
December 8, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
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Bangalore rapes highlight need for preventive approach to ensure children’s safety
December 8, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
Last week yet another shocking Bangalore school rape incident came to light where a three-year-old girl was raped by an attendant within school premises. This adds to the spate of sexual assault cases in Bangalore…
December 8, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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Parivar without Janata: Lalu, Nitish, Mulayam may have come together but they are disconnected from the new Indian voter’s aspirations
December 8, 2014, 12:03 AM IST
Socialist fellow travellers from six parties – Samajwadi Party, Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal (Secular), Indian National Lok Dal and Samajwadi Janata Party – have agreed in principle to join forces and…
December 8, 2014, 12:03 AM IST
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Good that govt allowed students to continue with German as third language for current session
December 6, 2014, 6:00 AM IST
It is good that the government saw sense and allowed students to continue with German as the third language for the current academic session, if they so choose. To force them to make a change…
December 6, 2014, 6:00 AM IST
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Badmouthing democracy: The significance of Gandhi’s verbal ahimsa in our cuss-heavy republic
December 6, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
Most of us make the mistake of associating Mahatma Gandhi’s “ahimsa” with just physical non-violence. Yet the father of the nation repeatedly emphasised how important it was to observe non-violence in speech as well. He…
December 6, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
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Safe in public: Women are more susceptible to sexual assaults from those they trust
December 6, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
Indian women may well be safer in public spaces than at home, according to figures on female rape cases this year. The data submitted to Delhi high court suggests that sexual assault is more likely…
December 6, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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China’s great LOL forward: While grammar Maoists leave the Chinese people nowhere to pun, our own leaders let fly
December 6, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
Punsters say, China’s entered the marijuana era. Daddy Xi loves Mama Peng. Combine the first characters and you get dama, a homonym for marijuana, poking fun at the president and his lady. The thought police…
December 6, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
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Hate speech row highlights need for better parliamentary management by BJP
December 5, 2014, 12:12 AM IST
BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitched the development plank to reap rich electoral dividend. However, the time has come for the NDA government to walk the talk and deliver on substantive legislative business. In…
December 5, 2014, 12:12 AM IST
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Bullet trains are fine, but first eliminate unmanned level crossings and improve safety
December 5, 2014, 12:10 AM IST
The tragic death of six schoolchildren and serious injuries to 16 others, when a speeding train rammed into the bus they were on at an unmanned crossing in Mau near Varanasi, brings focus back on…
December 5, 2014, 12:10 AM IST
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By backing India-Bangladesh land swap, Modi moves to bring relief to those living on a fuzzy border
December 5, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
Dahala Khagrabari #51 is India’s only counter-counter-enclave, a piece of India surrounded by overlapping pieces of Bangladesh and India. It is also a farm and not inhabited. With an area of less than 1.7 acres,…
December 5, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
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Govt should punish those responsible for slapping EWS girl
December 4, 2014, 7:01 AM IST
Integrating children from economically weaker sections into schools in which a majority of students are from relatively well-to-do backgrounds was never going to be an easy task, but where teachers and schools do not even…
December 4, 2014, 7:01 AM IST
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