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A wake-up call for India’s universities (12 October 11:05) |
| There are scores of rankings of the world’s finest universities — and specialist departments — in the market, and pertinent questions are raised about each. A critic has observed that ... |
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India is now at nuclear high table (12 October 10:48) |
| It has been a roller-coaster ride of a week short of three years and three months for the India-US civil nuclear cooperation agreement, signed on July 18, 2005, to materialise into an intern... |
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Fire-fighting to stop the panic (10 October 11:55) |
| The Reserve Bank of India and finance minister P. Chidambaram acted with alacrity on Friday to try and assuage the fear and panic visible in this country's corporate and business community. ... |
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Assam: Firmer action needed (10 October 12:00) |
| The current violence in Assam, in which more than 50 people have already lost their lives, and thousands more displaced, is quite different from the bloodshed and rioting seen in other regio... |
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Bengal’s loss is Gujarat’s gain (08 October 11:43) |
| Gujarat has stolen West Bengal’s thunder by offering Tata’s small car Nano a hassle-free home-base. In doing so, the western state has lived up to its industry-proud reputation. Although... |
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Knee-jerk action by regulators (07 October 10:19) |
| The euphoria following the announcement of the removal of the ban on Participatory Notes (P-Notes) and the 40 per cent cap on P-Notes by the Securities and Exchange Board of India as well as... |
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Has Zardari really changed Pak line? (06 October 11:17) |
| There will naturally be careful efforts in New Delhi to read the tea leaves in the light of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s extraordinary remarks in a recent interview to the Wall St... |
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Centre must act firmly in Orissa (05 October 11:59) |
| While violence against the Christian community has affected several states in the past two months, its worst manifestation has been in Orissa and Karnataka. Of the two, the former has posed ... |
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Self-regulation by media is best (04 October 11:31) |
| News and current affairs broadcasting on television can hardly said to have covered itself with glory, although it has been some two decades since private channels made their entry. While pr... |
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Smoking ban: It’s fine, but how will it work? (03 October 11:24) |
| The tobacco industry might depend completely on it, but smoking is most definitely not a good idea. It is known to be a leading cause of many serious ailments, including cancer. In developin... |
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At long last, a done deal (03 October 11:11) |
| With 86 members of the United States Senate voting in favour of the civil nuclear agreement with India, and only 13 against, the process set in motion three years ago by Prime Minister Manmo... |
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Deal in Paris: Yet another landmark (01 October 11:37) |
| The signing of a civil nuclear agreement with France in Paris on Tuesday marks a special moment in history for India. The agreement ends a period of 34 years of nuclear apartheid during whic... |
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In tough times, be bullish on India (01 October 01:44) |
| The Indian stockmarket has acquired an uncanny ability to surprise everyone. While the rest of the Asian markets were smarting on Tuesday from the defeat of the $700 billion bailout package ... |
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Give a fair deal to armed forces (29 September 10:14) |
| Although the armed forces enjoy tremendous popular esteem among all sections of the people, for as far as one can look back there has been unease in the services about the measure of officia... |
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N-deal: A giant leap forward (29 September 12:21) |
| It's never over till it's over, as they say. Only when the legislation in the context of the India-US civil nuclear cooperation agreement clears the United States Senate, and is sent up to t... |
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Has Nanavati done justice to India? (27 September 11:01) |
| Not surprisingly, the first part of the report of the Nanavati Commission of Inquiry on the gory events of Gujarat in 2002 has run into a wall of criticism. The commission had been set up by... |
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A love feast in Washington (27 September 12:10) |
| Warmth characterised the atmospherics as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a virtual farewell call on US President George W. Bush, who is to lay down office shortly, on Thursday night when ... |
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Can Pak deliver on its promises? (25 September 11:38) |
| The first meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan's newly-elected President Asif Ali Zardari, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York, went off exc... |
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Rule of law: Stop this indifference (24 September 10:50) |
| Following the bludgeoning to death of the CEO of the Indian unit of an Italian multinational by a throng of its former employees, a number of leading industry associations have expressed anx... |
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Trade across LoC is long overdue (24 September 03:53) |
| Overland trade across the Line of Control, connecting Jammu and Kashmir with places in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, is an idea whose time has long come. Yet the less-than-forthcoming attitude ... |
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Some good news on oil and gas (24 September 03:41) |
| It was a historic moment for Reliance Industries as oil started gushing out from 8,000 feet below the ocean bed in the Krishna-Godavri basin of the Bay of Bengal. It also opened a new hub fo... |
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Pak, to save itself, needs policy shift (22 September 05:01) |
| Saturday’s horrific bombing at Islamabad’s posh Marriott Hotel suggests that it is shortsighted to speak of only the Fata border region of Pakistan as being the arc where terrorists can ... |
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Police success shows need for federal agency (20 September 11:51) |
| After a spate of terrorist bombings in important cities, including the nation’s capital, the Jamia Nagar shootout in Delhi between the police and terrorists on Friday brings relief to the ... |
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A new type of intervention (20 September 12:40) |
| The issuing of a tough advisory to Karnataka by the Union government — following the hint of official collusion in the unconscionable attacks on the Christian minority in that state — to... |
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Much to be done in war on terror (19 September 03:47) |
| Several issues have come together in the recent public discussion on how best to cope with terrorism, including the demand for the ejection of the Union home minister. But no fresh perspecti... |
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The State must not abdicate its role (18 September 02:43) |
| The Christian community in India has come under fire from communal Hindus before. But these have by and large been stray incidents. This is why the recent spate of attacks on Christian praye... |
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Wall St shock hits the world (16 September 11:32) |
| The disruptive 6-Sigma Wall Street events in the United States, where the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and another investment bank, Merrill Lynch, had to undersell itsel... |
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BJP in desperate hunt for allies (15 September 10:50) |
| It is clear that the BJP’s recent national executive meeting in Bengaluru has not been able to provide clarity on the question of finding new allies, a pressing necessity in the coalition ... |
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War on terror: Stop complacency (14 September 10:53) |
| Although it is not yet known what information yield has been gained from the arrest of a suspect in the Delhi serial blasts within hours of the explosions on Saturday, there appear to be rea... |
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Don’t let terrorists break India’s unity (13 September 11:51) |
| In a few days we will probably have a better idea of the damage caused by Saturday evening’s serial terror blasts in three important markets in the nation’s capital. We should by then al... |
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Pak, US: Questions of sovereignty (12 September 09:54) |
| The secret July order of US President George W. Bush permitting American special forces to mount ground assaults against Al Qaeda and Taliban targets inside Pakistani territory in the lawles... |
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Big Bang test: A Small Whimper? (11 September 10:49) |
| Particle physics has suddenly become sexy, thanks to the Large Haldron Collider on the Swiss-French border. Everyone is talking about protons, electrons, quarks and the elusive God particle.... |
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Don’t expect China’s attitude to change (10 September 10:06) |
| On a visit to this country earlier this week, China’s foreign minister Yang Jiechi hoped that the two countries will be sincere in "crafting this strategic and cooperative partnership... |
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India Inc awaits nuclear bonanza (09 September 11:25) |
| The end of what has been called India’s nuclear apartheid, with the Nuclear Suppliers Group waiving the cartel’s guidelines for India to be a part of the world nuclear trade group, has u... |
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Manmohan’s finest hour (08 September 03:24) |
| The India-US civil nuclear cooperation agreement has generated much controversy over its merits and demerits. The UPA government and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were at the receiving end o... |
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Vienna: India wins the day (06 September 11:32) |
| The way has at last been paved for India’s formal entry into the global nuclear club and to an end to its 34-year-long nuclear isolation. This has been made possible thanks to the historic... |
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Sarah Palin: New factor in US polls (06 September 02:52) |
| The unusual case of "hockey mom" Sarah Palin is sure to be talked about for a long, long time to come. And this is not only because she is the first woman in almost a quarter centu... |
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A lesson for all drunk drivers (03 September 11:48) |
| We probably haven’t heard the last of the BMW hit-and-run case, in which justice has been horribly delayed. While the sessions court has handed out a clear-cut conviction on the charge of ... |
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New man at helm of Reserve Bank (02 September 11:33) |
| The change of guard at any institution holds out promise and excitement of the unknown, but more so with the Reserve Bank of India, which will have a new governor on September 5 when Dr Y.V.... |
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Air travellers must feel jet fuel price cut (02 September 12:47) |
| The largest-ever cut in the price of aviation turbine fuel, at Rs 11,784 per kilolitre, has been welcomed, but there is no sign yet of the airlines announcing a reduction in airfares. The ai... |
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In J&K, relief after months of turmoil (01 September 02:25) |
| The agreement reached between the government and the Jammu agitators in the early hours of Sunday on the Amarnath shrine issue is a relief after two months of turmoil. The surest sign that t... |
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Divorce, alimony: Need for a debate (30 August 10:54) |
| The Union home ministry and the law ministry are reported to have cleared a Law Commission proposal to amend the law which makes it mandatory for a husband to pay maintenance after divorce t... |
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Bihar’s sorrow, India’s tragedy (29 August 10:27) |
| It would be no less a tragedy than the killer flood itself, which has two million people in north Bihar in its grip, if we were to turn away with the feeling that the Centre has done what it... |
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Misguided politics hurts development (29 August 12:42) |
| Several important issues are tied up with the Singur imbroglio in West Bengal. Taken together, they are impeding the high objective of rapid industrialisation of the state after the agricult... |
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J&K mess: Was Centre asleep? (27 August 11:11) |
| The broad sweep of events of the past two months in Jammu and Kashmir is mystifying. More than anything else, it suggests that departments of the Union government charged with maintaining an... |
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Orissa: Where has governance gone? (26 August 11:19) |
| The murder last Saturday of senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Swami Laxmananand Saraswati and four of his disciples in Orissa’s Kandhamal district is a matter of concern, just as any suc... |
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Stability in Pak faces a setback (26 August 04:17) |
| Just over six months ago, a coalition government led by the PPP was swept into power in Pakistan amid national euphoria following elections that saw the decisive defeat of a usurper regime. ... |
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Nuke deal hits a roadblock (24 August 10:45) |
| It has not said a final "no" yet, but in its August 21-22 meeting the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) has failed to clear the American move to obtain for India a clearance, by way of... |
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Tatas and Singur: Bengal flashpoint (23 August 11:48) |
| Ratan Tata’s threat that he would pull out of Singur if continued violence against the Tata Motors plant there indicated that the Nano project was not wanted by the people of the state has... |
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A warning to the legal fraternity (22 August 11:39) |
| Lawyers in the four district courts in the national capital struck work on Friday to protest against the punishment meted out to two top-rung city lawyers, one of them a former member of the... |
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