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Hate speak unbound: Modi’s silence on communal speeches such as Sadhvi Jyoti’s is worrying
December 4, 2014, 12:03 AM IST
In a sudden burst of inspiration Congress has brought out a booklet on the ‘U-turn Sarkar’, listing the many flip-flops and broken promises of the Narendra Modi government. In its campaign pitch, BJP had promised…
December 4, 2014, 12:03 AM IST
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Stephen Hawking warns against development of full Artificial Intelligence
December 4, 2014, 12:01 AM IST
TIMES VIEW Can lead to apocalypse Rudroneel Ghosh Distinguished physicist Stephen Hawking`s warning that development of full-fledged, autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI) could spell the end of the human race needs to be taken seriously. Despite…
December 4, 2014, 12:01 AM IST
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Win this war: Sukma massacre highlights Chhattisgarh’s helplessness in tackling Maoists
December 3, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
A day before Maoists gunned down 14 CRPF jawans in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, chief minister Raman Singh had proclaimed that his government would rid the state of Naxalites and end their depredations. Monday’s ambush took…
December 3, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
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Mind your language: Union ministers represent the Indian state, Sadhvi Jyoti must follow public decorum
December 3, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
The use of the word “haramzadon” or illegimately born – by Union minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti at a public function – is not acceptable in democratic discourse. That the minister, a sadhvi in saffron robes,…
December 3, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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Black holes in the economy: Noida engineer’s case shows why India must get to the roots of black money generation
December 3, 2014, 12:02 AM IST
India is one of the world’s largest generators of black money, and this is aided and supported by a weak institutional mechanism and incentives framework, which actually encourages it. The generation of black money in…
December 3, 2014, 12:02 AM IST
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Sealing the Land Boundary Agreement with Dhaka is good strategy and mature politics
December 2, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
Local folklore has it that 111 Indian enclaves (17,160 acres) in Bangladeshi territory and 51 Bangladeshi ones (7,110 acres) on the Indian side of the border are remnants of high-stakes chess games between the erstwhile…
December 2, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
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Rohtak bravehearts: Two college students raise the banner for freeing public transport of sexually harassment
December 2, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
The sheer everydayness of sexual harassment in public transport can lend it a grotesque normativity. Women are expected to just take it en route to work or education or healthcare – as if silence was…
December 2, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
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Deadly duplication: The great Indian paper chase would melt even the Don like ice cream in the sun
December 2, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
Swift code, Micr number, IFSC number, postal address and a letter from the governor attesting to your character before you can even pay your taxes. India’s love affair with the paper chase continues unabated and…
December 2, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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Following IPL, the proliferation of sports leagues should boost Indian sport
December 1, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
It is raining sports leagues in India. A process that started with IPL in 2008 has now gathered momentum and almost every sport with a following in India has a league of its own. The…
December 1, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
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Moves to ease business hurdles and provide e-visas welcome but more reforms are needed
December 1, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
The Modi government has set an ambitious target of taking India from its abysmal ranking of 142 in the World Bank’s ease of doing business index to the top 50 in the next two years….
December 1, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
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Bipartisan selection of CBI chief is essential for agency to regain its credibility
December 1, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
After the Supreme Court found charges that CBI director Ranjit Sinha had tried to help accused in the 2G telecom spectrum scam prima facie credible and directed him to recuse himself from supervising the cases,…
December 1, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
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Do the tango with teenagers
November 29, 2014, 5:58 PM IST
My daughter just turned 17! Of course, it’s the age when I am the most ‘annoying’ person on this planet and everything about me drives her bananas. The way I laugh, my gregarious nature, the…
November 29, 2014, 5:58 PM IST
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Saving Mumbai’s public space
November 29, 2014, 4:31 AM IST
Mumbai, anyway, does not have too much of open space that the public can call its own. To try and take away something from that little we have is an extremely regressive move. Politicians should…
November 29, 2014, 4:31 AM IST
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Blood getting costlier
November 29, 2014, 2:09 AM IST
Even something as essential as blood becoming a function of the market is just not done. A medical emergency makes the citizen especially vulnerable; taking advantage of that is despicable. The FDA needs to keep…
November 29, 2014, 2:09 AM IST
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Achtung! Smriti Irani rides in: The education minister proves she is a class act in more ways than one
November 29, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
As the old saying goes education is not a putting in, it’s a taking out. And Smriti Irani, the redoubtable Union minister for human resources development, is taking it out of the education system, even…
November 29, 2014, 12:05 AM IST
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India against full membership for China in Saarc
November 29, 2014, 12:01 AM IST
TIMES VIEW China doesn’t belong to south Asia by Nalin Mehta China has been a Saarc observer since 2005. But it has recently lobbied to be upgraded to full Saarc membership and thus push its…
November 29, 2014, 12:01 AM IST
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Assault on women
November 28, 2014, 7:28 AM IST
The brazen assault on a woman who was robbed of her gold bangle at a traffic signal is a wake-up call for the Pune police and the city’s legislators. Instances of gold ornaments being snatched…
November 28, 2014, 7:28 AM IST
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Tragic Accident: Phil Hughes’s death should spur better safety protocols in cricket
November 28, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
The tragic death of Australian Test cricketer Phillip Hughes – from a head injury received during a Sheffield Shield match in Sydney – has shocked the cricketing fraternity. Hughes, aged 25, was hit on the…
November 28, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
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End tax terror: Jaitley must heed advice to end Vodafone litigation and undo retrospective tax legislation
November 28, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
Soon after presenting his maiden budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley promised Parliament that he would end “tax terrorism” and restore investor confidence in India by providing a stable taxation regime that won’t be hostage to…
November 28, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
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Cricket isn’t worth dying for: Ban bouncers – that’s the only way to prevent tragedies like Phil Hughes’s death
November 28, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
Bouncers should be outlawed immediately in cricket. They should have been banned long ago, and bowlers should not even have been allowed a maximum of two per over, but it’s still not too late. The…
November 28, 2014, 12:00 AM IST
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