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SIT process is Modis chance to redeem himself (21 March 07:27) |
| Whatever the SIT's verdict, and however long it may take, Modi must come clean and explain his role. He has no option but to try and win over those he has alienated. |
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David Headley case US has let down India badly (20 March 11:36) |
| All governments indulge in spin. One should not, therefore, blame the government of Dr Manmohan Singh for indulging in spin in the case of David Coleman Headley, of the Chicago cell of the L... |
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Climate change What will happen to our forests (19 March 05:27) |
| Foresters should not succumb to the temptations of easy money for carbon sequestration |
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Intellectual property rights Brazil vs US (19 March 05:27) |
| Brazil plans to break IP rights on American drugs, music, software and movies as retaliation for its cotton subsidies. |
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The feasibility of Tobin tax (19 March 05:27) |
| Tobin Tax has immense potential when used along with complementary policies such as counter-cyclical and macro-prudential measures. |
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The UPAs second great nuclear folly (19 March 05:27) |
| The nuclear liability bill is fatally flawed. It's designed to shield the nuclear industry from discharging its public responsibility. It must be scrapped, writes Praful Bidwai |
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Retaining talent Are companies doing enough (19 March 01:27) |
| A McKinsey survey shows very few firms focus on building the capability that adds the most value to performance. |
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India should now focus on Tahawwur Rana (19 March 01:27) |
| Now that David Headley has pleaded guilty, it is settled that he will not be extradited to India and that India will not be allowed to interrogate him. |
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SC did well to reject government blackmail (19 March 01:27) |
| Economic reform entails reducing the space for arbitrary decision-making and ensuring transparency in policy. |
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GM crops are part of Indias and worlds future (19 March 01:27) |
| New-age genetic research and technology brings new life to an old economy industry, one that is amongst the largest employers in the country. |
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Educating India in a B-Grade American style (18 March 03:27) |
| Nothing can be more dangerous than programming the mindset of the young generation of India through an education system that has nothing to do with the great culture. |
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India-Russia ties Strong but with irritants (18 March 03:27) |
| The four pillars on which the relationship rests strategic congruence; defence and space partnership; nuclear power generation; and hydrocarbons remain biased in favour of Russia. Puti... |
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India cant sit out the great issues of our time (18 March 01:27) |
| India has to leverage its "swing" status, engage with all and align with none, observes Shyam Saran |
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US wont let truth regarding Headley come out (18 March 01:27) |
| Unless one is naive beyond redemption, it was clear from the beginning that the Obama Administration and its FBI were trying frantically to prevent the truth regarding Headley from coming ou... |
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The slide in Indian universities (17 March 05:27) |
| It would make sense to have a re-look at the Indian universities and evolve ways and means to arrest the slide and then refurbish it in every which way. Or else in a global village, we could... |
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India looks beyond Tehran in the Gulf (17 March 05:27) |
| With his visit to Saudi Arabia, Dr Singh has re-emphasised that when it comes to the Gulf, Iran will not be the focus of Indian foreign policy. |
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The end of an era in finance (17 March 03:27) |
| IMF's change of heart on capital controls is important, but it needs to be followed by further action. |
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Of media balance sheets and transparency (17 March 01:27) |
| Why don't media companies work harder at having annual reports and balance sheets that are well arranged, easy to read and comprehensible? |
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Hanging on thin majority govt faces many risks ahead (16 March 01:27) |
| With the United Progressive Alliance almost isolated in the wake of the Women's Reservation Bill, the government has decided to avoid the process of voting as far as possible. With the numbe... |
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The unfinished business of the nuclear deal (15 March 05:36) |
| 'A strategic relationship entails mutual faith and confidence, which seem to be lacking at |
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The Womens Lottery Bill (15 March 05:36) |
| Economist, agriculturist and farmer leader Sharad Joshi, was the lone member of Rajya Sabha who voted against the woman's reservation bill on March 9. He explains his reservations against th... |
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Capitalism that we can be proud of (15 March 01:27) |
| Rajni Bakshi on why some kind of transformation in the culture of capitalism is inevitable. |
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Sonia has sent a powerful message to Indian women (12 March 11:27) |
| Congress president Sonia Gandhi appears to be playing for larger -- and long term -- stakes and the move to provide reservation to women is not bereft of political calculations, writes Neerj... |
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Greenpeace on Nuclear Liability Bill Drop it (12 March 05:27) |
| Greenpeace has also launched a petition addressed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, which the organisation claims has been signed by over 21,000 people. |
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UPA should stand firm on Womens Bill (12 March 05:27) |
| Reservations for women will not dramatically and automatically redeem systematic, pervasive discrimination reservations but it will play a key role in bringing women's concerns to bear on pu... |
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Getting to the 1412th tiger (12 March 11:27) |
| Want to increase the number of tigers? Pay people quickly and generously for the crops destroyed or the cattle killed |
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Disturbing echoes of Bhopal in Nuclear Liability Bill (12 March 11:27) |
| There's far too much to be said against Nuclear Liability Bill |
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AMU Who will stem the rot (11 March 05:18) |
| One of India's highest funded institutions of higher learning and research, the Aligarh Muslim University, appears in media, more often than not, for the wrong reasons, for which, essentiall... |
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Budget helps conmen not the common man (11 March 05:18) |
| A change that the Budget proposes to make could end up helping Indians who might have laundered their ill-gotten money, says M R Venkatesh. |
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China slows its defence spending on paper (11 March 03:18) |
| India, however, would be well advised to take this decrease in Chinese defence spending with a pinch of salt, writes Harsh V Pant. |
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Biotech Bill Sweeping powers glaring omissions (11 March 01:18) |
| The biotech regulatory Bill gags dissent and takes away the power of states without providing any safeguards to farmers and consumers. |
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Why this is a good-average Budget (11 March 01:18) |
| The expenditure cuts are one-off, too much has been given away in tax cuts and there are few green shoots of reform. |
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No end to this circus called Budget (10 March 03:27) |
| For how many more years will the annual Budget circus continue in its current form? This is a question often asked at post-Budget seminars held across the country every year around this time... |
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Why govt must NOT focus on slum-free India (10 March 03:27) |
| In his recent Budget speech, the finance minister reiterated the government's plans to make India "slum-free" within five years. |
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How safe are your dollars (09 March 09:36) |
| They may well be, but investments in euro-denominated bonds will give higher safe returns, says Martin Feldstein. |
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Why the Oscars werent worth waking up for (09 March 05:45) |
| The 82nd Annual Academy Awards were, without question, the most badly written and weakly produced show in the last two decades, and quite likely one of the most drab shows of all time. |
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Chinese media Half a step towards openness (09 March 05:45) |
| Like everything else in China, its largely State-controlled media too is changing, and changing rapidly, writes Nitin Gokhale. |
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Tharoor is a victim of Hinglish (09 March 04:00) |
| But why is Tharoor so much an attraction for the uppish media and the conceited politicians? Here is someone, a new entrant to politics, made a minister despite being a first time MP, well-t... |
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Only miracle can save the womens bill now (08 March 11:45) |
| There was shock within the non-Congress Members of Parliament to see how the government remained inactive within the Rajya Sabha when the Women's Reservation Bill was tabled on Monday. |
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Please give Mamata an air ticket to China (08 March 03:36) |
| Mamata should travel to China to see how the Chinese railway system is expanding, says T N Ninan. |
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A Gandhi in Egypt (08 March 03:36) |
| Today, ElBaradei is emerging as the Gandhi of Egypt, advocating a civil disobedience movement to bring about change after 30 years of "stillness and subservience". His return to Cairo after ... |
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Why the vote on the womens bill is important (05 March 07:27) |
| Political pundits, sociologists, political scientists, feminists and historians and almost everybody has said that if the bill becomes an act then it will be the biggest socio-political news... |
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If Husain feels betrayed so does India (05 March 05:27) |
| If Husain feels betrayed by the treatment being meted out to him in the country of his birth, India too has reasons to feel betrayed by its globally celebrated son, writes Mahendra Ved. |
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Please end the daily tamasha at Wagah (05 March 03:36) |
| The need and necessity for Pakistan to do all this is self evident. That country is founded on hate. But by participating in this mindless display of 'jingoism' (not confident nationalism), ... |
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Budget A new paradigm for India (05 March 01:54) |
| Budget 2010 went far beyond most recent Budgets in that it defined an entirely new paradigm for the Indian economy. |
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The best way to influence consumers (05 March 01:54) |
| For many big brands, investment in advertising is as big as the amounts spent in setting up factories and other infrastructure. |
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How SBI has become a preferred employer (05 March 11:18) |
| HR audit, Strategic Training Unit, leadership development - SBI is doing all that it takes to be an employer of choice. |
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Road projects flyovers A major scandal (04 March 05:36) |
| Mahesh Vijapurkar smells a scandal in the BOT model for road projects. |
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Pakistan conundrum Dealing with an unholy trinity (04 March 03:36) |
| Continued negotiation is a futile and counter-productive proposition with no deterrent value serving merely as a ruse for Pakistan to mollify the world community even as it persists with its... |
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The absurd MNC-backed India Project (04 March 03:36) |
| MNC-backed IP summits try to influence sitting judges on patent law enforcement issues pending in Indian courts. |
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