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Plain speaking in national interest (21 November 07:44) |
| Nov 21 : Very occasionally senior officials come along who call a spade a spade, rather than conform to standards of political correctness that are not infrequently used to maintain the stat... |
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Sugarcane row Resolve quickly (20 November 10:49) |
| Nov.20 : It was prudent of the government to have stepped back on Thursday and offer assurances of modifying the ordinance on the price of sugarcane that led Uttar Pradesh’s farmers to mou... |
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Just stand firm with US China (19 November 07:59) |
| Nov 19 : US President Barack Obama’s solicitousness of his Chinese hosts should cause no surprise. Equally, no Indian outrage is called for on account of condescending references in the US... |
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Bravo Sachin! (18 November 08:36) |
| Nov 18 : The Marathi manoos of the Shiv Sena’s conception, and those of its derivatives, took a hard knock when the octogenarian Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray seriously miscalculated an... |
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Yesterdays men out of tune in UP (17 November 09:42) |
| Nov.17 : The unprepossessing sight of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Kalyan Singh — two former chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh, the country’s largest state — shooting poisoned arrows at one ... |
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A delicate time for West Bengal (16 November 01:48) |
| Nov.16 : Ruling parties usually prefer to advance election dates when they think the pitch is to their liking. The idea is to strike when the iron is hot, rather than wait to complete the fu... |
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Living legend soldiers on (15 November 11:17) |
| Nov.15 : In the active life of an international athlete, 20 years is a phenomenal number in these hurried and high-pressure times. In almost any sport, one would be hard pressed to recall na... |
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A new front in war on terror (14 November 12:22) |
| Nov.14 : To facilitate deception, duplicity and dodge, changing names and aliases is an occupational necessity in the world of espionage and terrorism, as is exemplified by the case of the f... |
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The manner of Maha politics (13 November 08:32) |
| Nov 13 : The new government in Maharashtra led by Ashok Chavan has an enormous task before it as it takes over at a time when the political culture in the state has reached its nadir. There ... |
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Rattled Beijing needs watching (11 November 09:02) |
| Nov 11 : Given the crude Chinese reaction to it, the Dalai Lama’s visit to Tawang — which began last Sunday and is scheduled to last a week — will be recalled as making diplomatic hist... |
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Day of shame in Maharashtra (10 November 09:07) |
| Nov.10 : The shameful episode of the physical beating of Samajwadi Party member Abu Azmi on the floor of the Maharashtra Assembly by four MLAs belonging to Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navn... |
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Telecom battles to get tougher (09 November 10:06) |
| Nov.09 : Competition in the telecom industry is proving tough for industry players, and it could soon become a struggle for survival. Some see a bloodbath and consolidation, but others feel ... |
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RSS shock and awe in BJP (08 November 08:20) |
| Nov 08 : Rarely, if ever, has the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) expressed itself as unambiguously on the selection and composition of the top leadership of the BJP, a party it has spawne... |
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Disinvesting PSUs boon to investors (07 November 12:20) |
| Nov.06 : The government’s decision to go in for a two-pronged disinvestment programme will surely add quality and depth to India’s stockmarkets. The Union Cabinet has decided that in alr... |
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Indias stimulus To end or not to end (06 November 01:13) |
| Nov.06 : The monetary and fiscal authorities in this country have considered withdrawal of stimulus packages; and while the Union finance minister stressed these would remain for the time be... |
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Rein in pak for peace in asia (06 November 01:13) |
| Nov.06 : Sir, The frequency and intensity of the recent bomb blasts in Pakistan must have reverberated through Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik's brain and rattled him enough to cla... |
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Security Citizens cant be ignored (05 November 10:12) |
| Nov.05 : While the Indian citizen has never seriously grumbled about the security needs of VIPs — and this shows people are fully alive to concerns that have begun to haunt us on account o... |
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Let others follow judges example (04 November 08:02) |
| Nov.04 : The public disclosure of assets by Supreme Court judges is likely to have a cleansing effect on the system, and boost the image of the higher judiciary in the country. On the basis ... |
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Why are there so many holidays (03 November 11:18) |
| Nov.03 : The move by the Securities and Exchange Board of India to cut the number of holidays in the country’s stock exchanges is more than welcome. The sooner it happens, the better for t... |
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A sorry mess in Karnataka (02 November 11:36) |
| Oct.02 : The BJP had dispatched senior party leader Arun Jaitley to Karnataka to sort out the mess chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has got himself into with a section of his legislators led ... |
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Oil safety rules need overhaul (01 November 09:17) |
| Oct.31 : As the fire rages at the Indian Oil depot in the Sitapura industrial area of Jaipur, it seems an eerie coincidence that only last week a very concerned minister for petroleum and na... |
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Is anybody in Pak listening (31 October 08:18) |
| Oct 31 : Speaking from the Kashmir Valley this week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh probably pitched his message just right, although it might be realistic not to set expectations too high. O... |
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Inflation Ball in govts court (30 October 09:38) |
| Oct.30 : The Reserve Bank of India has sent out a polite but strong alert to the government to tackle rising food prices as it cannot be tackled by monetary instruments. In the credit policy... |
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Rajdhani attack warning to govt (29 October 12:18) |
| Oct.19 : Naxalites operating in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district, who have been in the news in recent months, created something of a sensation on Tuesday by storming the Delhi-bound B... |
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Paranoia apparent in Pak responses (28 October 09:02) |
| Oct.28 : India has always been concerned with the political and financial stability of Pakistan. Improbable as it may seem to those outside the subcontinent, irrespective of political partie... |
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Give our airlines better fairer deal (27 October 08:41) |
| Oct 27 : India’s private airlines as well as state-owned Air India (which incorporates what earlier used to be Indian Airlines) are justifiably aggrieved at the way foreign carriers — ma... |
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On China lower our expectations (26 October 12:08) |
| Oct.26 : The starkness of a relationship that cannot be abandoned in a hurry, but one from which warmth has escaped and expectations cannot be high, describes India-China ties these days. Pr... |
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Indias toughest games lie ahead (25 October 09:00) |
| Oct 25 : With the ersatz excitement of the Champions League Twenty20 now over, it is time for cricket to return to form. In just a few hours, Team India take the field against their toughest... |
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Dangers of swap deals with rebels (24 October 01:33) |
| Oct.24 : It is not clear if the move of the West Bengal government earlier this week to release two dozen women held for aiding Lalgarh Naxalites to secure the freedom of a West Midnapore po... |
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Honeymoon for Cong continues (23 October 11:20) |
| Oct.23 : The broad trends thrown up by the Assembly election in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh, the results for which became available on Thursday, is that the honeymoon period f... |
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An anti-climax in Afghanistan (22 October 06:18) |
| Oct.22 : The denouement in the election process in Afghanistan has been anti-climactic in that it is likely to leave President Hamid Karzai in the driver’s seat in spite of the opposition ... |
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Make our schools better then IITs (21 October 08:48) |
| Oct.21 :If the point is to get some of the best young brains in the country to crack the IITs’ joint entrance examination, human resources development minister Kapil Sibal had the right id... |
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Pak ISI terror Iran says it too (20 October 09:49) |
| Oct 20 : While details are sketchy, the suicide bomber who on Sunday killed several high-ranking officials of Iran’s elite force, the Revolutionary Guard, in the country’s Pishin distric... |
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Its time to speak frankly to China (19 October 11:00) |
| Oct 19 : For about two decades, the India-China story had been one of hope in spite of the lingering boundary issue. The principle on which the interaction between the Asian giants rested wa... |
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The games within the Delhi Games (17 October 01:05) |
| Oct 17 : With time running out, almost every related project behind schedule and pressure increasing by the day, Indian Olympic Committee president and 2010 Commonwealth Games organising com... |
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Fears rise Pak out of control (16 October 06:14) |
| Oct.16 : The deteriorating security situation within Pakistan ought to be a matter of serious concern to us in India, although the dramatis personae responsible for the spate of attacks at d... |
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The industrial index phenomena (15 October 08:34) |
| Oct.15 : The unexpected jump in the Index of Industrial Production figures for August 2009 to 10.4 per cent from 1.7 per cent a year ago (in August 2008) seems spectacular on the face of i... |
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Games 2010 Stop drift take charge (14 October 12:26) |
| Oct.14 : It might have been more fruitful if the implied tongue-lashing administered by Mike Fennell, president of the Commonwealth Games Federation, to the Suresh Kalmadi-led organising com... |
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Sensible line on tackling Naxals (13 October 04:02) |
| Oct.13 : In the backdrop of a spate of recent incidents of Naxalite violence in several states, and the extremists laying siege to the Lalgarh forest zone in the Midnapore-Purulia region of ... |
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Pak Army HQ hit Questions remain (11 October 09:39) |
| Oct.12 : The international media suggests that people in Pakistan continue to be puzzled about the weekend’s attack by terrorists on the Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi, and the p... |
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Kabul attack Pak gets more brazen (11 October 01:02) |
| Oct 11 : Fortunately, Thursday morning’s deadly terrorist attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul — which came exactly 15 months after the first attack on July 7 last year — did not take... |
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Venkis Nobel is time to introspect (09 October 03:54) |
| Oct.09 : The entire country is now toasting Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, an American citizen of Indian origin who was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu and graduated from Baroda’s M.S. Univer... |
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Heed UNs call to protect migrants (07 October 12:19) |
| Oct.07 : It is debatable if freer, and increased, movement of people in search of a living can really hasten a global economic recovery, as the authors of this year’s UN Human Development ... |
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Floods in South a national calamity (06 October 02:05) |
| Oct 06 : Rain havoc and rushing floods on a scale usually associated with eastern India and neighbouring Bangladesh have laid low peninsular India. The frightening magnitude of things sugges... |
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A reality check for rich nations (05 October 02:42) |
| Oct 05 : Money is not everything, and the weekend meeting in Istanbul of the Group of Seven richest nations in the world must have realised this. Almost all, with just one exception, are ree... |
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Is Rios victory a slap for Obama (04 October 01:53) |
| Oct 04 : The bid for the Summer Olympics 2016 is likely to be remembered as much for the success of Brazil’s zippy city Rio de Janeiro as for the spectacular failure of Chicago, even thoug... |
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Bharti-MTN Let it be a wake-up call (03 October 12:38) |
| Oct 03 : The collapse of the proposed Bharti Airtel–MTN merger is akin to the flop of a big-banner movie, with equally devastating sentiments. The actors were marquee names, with Bharti th... |
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A dissection of champions (02 October 12:19) |
| Oct.02 : India’s early exit from the 2009 Champions Trophy was the second such at International Cricket Council-run tournaments this year. Defending champions at the T20 world championship... |
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Red China is 60 (01 October 05:17) |
| Oct.01 : As it celebrates the 60th anniversary of the 1949 Communist revolution led by Chairman Mao Zedong today, there is much that the People’s Republic of China can legitimately be prou... |
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Air India strike has to end now (30 September 06:18) |
| Sept.30 : The wildcat strike by Air India’s highest-paid executive pilots, which entered its fourth day Tuesday leaving the national carrier crippled, has simply no justification. These pi... |
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