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Little clarity after talks with Pak (26 February 08:32) |
| Feb 26 : At the end of the three-hour conversation between the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan in New Delhi on Thursday, the direction and pace of any dialogue between the two coun... |
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A return to growth Dont celebrate yet (03 February 12:08) |
| Feb.03 : The euphoria over economic growth that started with the November 2009 industrial production figures has carried over into the first month of the new year. It was fortified last week... |
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Sena-BJP squabble Both are in a mess (02 February 12:32) |
| Feb.02 : The Shiv Sena and the BJP, allies for close on three decades, find themselves in a position of likely public confrontation over an issue that is of deep political concern to both. T... |
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Afghanistan Much is at stake for India (01 February 03:07) |
| Feb.01 : Afghanistan has been a theatre of war and foreign involvement in its internal affairs for three decades. A stable equilibrium is far from being reached. Kabul is as yet a long way f... |
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Raise the cut for Padma honours (31 January 07:01) |
| Jan 31 : Recent events fortify the impression that the Padma awards, conferred by the government on individuals of distinction who have made an undeniable contribution to the country in any ... |
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Inflation RBI means business (30 January 12:01) |
| Jan.30 : Rising prices has been a growing nightmare for the common people. The Reserve Bank of India, aware of this, sent out the strongest signal ever about its intention to curb inflation ... |
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We dont know the meaning of secular (29 January 03:19) |
| Jan.29 : Sir, With reference to the article 60 years on, our tryst with destiny continues (January 26) by S. Nihal Singh, where he says that socialism, secularism and non-alignment were the ... |
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Challenges ahead for Rajapakse (28 January 12:10) |
| Jan.28 : Mahinda Rajapakse has won a second term as the Executive President of Sri Lanka, and he has done so handsomely. His rival, Sarath Fonseka, did poorly on donning civilian attire afte... |
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Davos Isnt it just a networking club (27 January 08:19) |
| Jan 27 : At a cozy upmarket resort somewhere in the Swiss Alps, speaker after speaker will hold forth from today on what they would do to save the world. This will be broadcast and reported ... |
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A youthful republic at 60 looks ahead (26 January 09:11) |
| Jan.16 : The Republic at 60. There is a paradox built into the Indian situation as we pass this milestone today. Most Indians who are putting in the hard work to take the country forward at ... |
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Top court views on veil welcome (24 January 10:00) |
| Jan 24 : Whatever view one may hold on Muslim women using the face veil, it cannot be gainsaid that female adherents of Islam around the world have made notable contributions in every field ... |
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Taxi politics not just a Maha issue (23 January 12:50) |
| Jan.23 : Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan put his foot into his mouth trying to push a pro-Marathi agenda in explaining his government’s move to revive 24,000 lapsed taxi permits in... |
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Hysteria in Pak quite deliberate (22 January 03:23) |
| Jan.22 : It is a self-serving act on the part of the Pakistani establishment to orchestrate anti-India hysteria in that country, exploiting the issue of non-selection of Pakistani cricket st... |
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Deemed varsities A necessary crackdown (20 January 12:35) |
| Jan 20 : Some of the finest educational institutions in the country are "deemed universities". In recent decades, however, a proliferation of so-called educational centres has take... |
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High time to play hardball with Oz (19 January 12:49) |
| Jan.19 : The continuing and worsening attacks on Indians in Australia is becoming a serious worry, even if the incidents appear scattered and affect only a miniscule proportion of Indians li... |
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A Communist who almost became PM (18 January 04:05) |
| Jan.18 : The passing of Jyoti Basu removes from the scene a Communist and a gentleman, a leader of the working class to whom industrialists paid encomiums, a veteran of revolutionary thought... |
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The danger within Terror sleeper cells (17 January 12:50) |
| Jan 16 : A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted US national David Headley, who had changed his original Pakistani name of Dawood Gilani to evade detection in India, and Canadian nation... |
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Food prices Govt needs to do more (15 January 12:30) |
| Jan.15 : The decision earlier this week by the Cabinet Committee on Prices with regard to sugar, rice and wheat, pulses and edible oils will, at best, have more of a psychological impact tha... |
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Bearing the brunt of Nehrus Blunders (14 January 12:32) |
| Jan.14 : Sir, This refers to the editorial Tharoor on Nehru: So much hot air... (January 12). Policies of Jawaharlal Nehru may be beyond critical appraisal for the Congress Party and its sup... |
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A new chapter in ties with Dhaka (13 January 12:23) |
| Jan.13 : The true potential of the relationship between India and Bangladesh has never been realised in spite of this country’s historic role in aiding the process of Bangladesh’s birth,... |
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Tharoor on Nehru So much hot air (12 January 02:02) |
| Jan.12 : What’s up with the Congress Party? Ever so cautious about fielding journalists’ questions that have substance, its spokesmen seem to go into overdrive when it comes to taking is... |
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Shameful conduct has sickened India (11 January 12:13) |
| Jan.11 : The telecast of a video clip showing two Tamil Nadu ministers watching a sub-inspector battling for life in a pool of blood after being attacked by pipe bombs and sickles by a murde... |
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Revolting state of Indian hockey (10 January 09:09) |
| Jan 10 : Indian hockey has been on the skids for so long now that news of yet more turmoil in the sport barely raises an eyebrow. It is a sad commentary on the national sport — and the tra... |
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India-Pak Candid talk sets off storm (09 January 01:19) |
| Jan.09 : Recent remarks by the Indian Army Chief, Gen. Deepak Kapoor, have created a veritable firestorm in the Pakistani media. The offending observation — made at a closed-door seminar o... |
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Dont let terrorists derail JK policy (08 January 05:23) |
| Jan.08 : The terrorist assault in central Srinagar on Wednesday does not change the story. The hit was sudden and dramatic as such strikes invariably are, and the shooting went on for around... |
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Draw a red line with Australia (07 January 02:35) |
| Jan.07 : The news was bad enough some eight or nine months ago when members of the Indian community in Australia — among them a fair number of students — began to come under attacks by t... |
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Telangana Explore all possible options (06 January 01:20) |
| Jan.06 : To no one’s surprise, the meeting of Andhra Pradesh political parties chaired by Union home minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi on Tuesday to thrash out the Telangana issue yield... |
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9 am bell leaves Dalal St divided (04 January 08:52) |
| Jan 04 : The first trading day in the New Year will usher in one of the most contentious moves ever by the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange — extension of trading time by ... |
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Exports herald a better 2010 (03 January 08:07) |
| Jan 03 : The export figures, which showed an increase of 18.2 per cent in November after languishing for 13 months, have come as a morale booster for the economy on the opening day of 2010. ... |
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Give top priority to food inflation (02 January 10:12) |
| Jan 02 : A new decade has dawned with a heavy hangover of inflation on the food front, which soared to 19.8 per cent for the week ending December 12, despite expectations that it might wane ... |
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Ringing in 2010 with some hope (01 January 08:07) |
| Jan 01 : The fading of a year and the commencement of a new one is quite appropriately regarded with hope and anticipation even when the circumstances are trying. In India, we have our share... |
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Japan Ties are getting stronger (31 December 08:05) |
| Dec 31 : India and Japan have traditionally held one another in estimation. Japan’s victory in the Russo-Japanese war of 1905 was hailed in this country as the military triumph of an Asian... |
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Congress cant just forget Rao (30 December 07:54) |
| Dec 30 : After the sense of anticipation, the drama, jamboree spirit and purposeful preparation that gave the Congress' centenary celebrations in Mumbai under the late Rajiv Gandhi's steward... |
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Indian crickets day of shame (29 December 01:05) |
| Dec.29 : Sunday’s fiasco at New Delhi’s Ferozeshah Kotla grounds, where the fifth and final one-day international between India and Sri Lanka had to be called off after just 24 overs tha... |
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Tiwari should have quit earlier (28 December 02:20) |
| Dec.28 : It is a good thing that the governor of Andhra Pradesh, Mr N.D. Tiwari, has resigned and that his resignation has been accepted by the President of India, at whose pleasure he serve... |
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Govt should tax P-Notes (27 December 01:13) |
| Dec.27 : It is heartening that the advance tax collection from India’s corporate sector has gone up by 20 per cent, or Rs 1.13 lakh crores, between April-December 2009. Of the top 10 advan... |
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Somebody stop the rot in the Army (26 December 09:29) |
| Dec 26 : In the public mind, our armed forces are not associated with corruption although instances have come to light where senior Army officers have been found mixed up with arms dealers. ... |
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Jharkhand election result is instability (25 December 12:17) |
| Dec.25 : The Jharkhand Assembly election was held after a long spell of President’s Rule on account of unstable political conditions in the state, but the poll results that became availabl... |
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Why is former mumbai chief singled out (25 December 12:15) |
| Dec.25 : Sir, One gets the impression that the Maharashtra government was in too much haste to indict former Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor for his handling of the 26/11 Mumbai terr... |
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Change law to protect vulnerable (24 December 01:31) |
| Dec.24 : Our society is no stranger to criminality emanating from high places. Indeed, those who wield power and influence are known to crack the networks to break the law, and then again to... |
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The Wests writ in Afghanistan (23 December 12:55) |
| Dec.23 : In view of the ground realities, the US and other Nato powers have been obliged to accept willy nilly, first, the result of the recent presidential election in Afghanistan which gav... |
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Modi vote idea against free will (22 December 11:39) |
| Dec.22 : It is hard to know what inspired Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to get into making voting compulsory in elections to local bodies in his state. It is clear to see that such a ... |
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Copenhagen Where it failed (21 December 02:29) |
| Dec.21 : The outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit, whose closing phases were enveloped in needless drama, is an all-round disappointment. If at all it can have pleased anyone, it can onl... |
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Tenuous times for the BJP (20 December 08:21) |
| Dec 20 : The Bhartiya Janata Party, which edged in from the peripheries to occupy a central location in national politics in the last two decades, has just experienced a key change of person... |
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Its best to avoid impeachment (19 December 09:41) |
| Dec.19 : The saga of the Chief Justice of the Karnataka high court, P.D. Dinakaran, is a narrative laden with irony. Here was a judge whose name was among a set approved by the Supreme Court... |
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Isolated Zardari to find it hard to stay (18 December 12:41) |
| Wednesday night’s ruling by a 17-member bench of Pakistan’s Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is clearly a blow to President Asif Ali Zardari’s prestige as ... |
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Internal rifts can hurt Indias rise (17 December 01:14) |
| Dec.17 : Two negative results have flowed from last week’s sudden announcement by the Union home minister on the Telangana question. One concerns the government (and therefore India in a w... |
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Destroying the idea of protest (16 December 01:27) |
| Dec.16 : Mob violence appears to have emerged as the principal currency of protest in post-Independence India, overtaking the more considered avenues that were fairly much the norm in an ear... |
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Growth Yes But can it be sustained (14 December 02:27) |
| Dec.14 : The stock market gave the thumbs down to the figures for industrial production on Friday even while the government and some sections of decision-markers were pleased with the figure... |
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Politics surround new Telangana (11 December 11:02) |
| Dec 11 : Union home minister P. Chidambaram’s midnight announcement on Telangana on Wednesday took the country by surprise. The announcement brooked no delay, the minister clarified to Par... |
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