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Congress blinks first (07 November 12:00) |
| In political, as in most forms of bargaining, the party with the higher stakes will blink first. With each day that was added to the delay in government formation in Maharashtra, the Congres... |
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Broadening conservation (07 November 12:00) |
| Heritage conservation practices improved worldwide after the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (Iccrom) was established with Unesco�... |
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Politics and the Praetorian Guard (07 November 12:00) |
| Public response to the exposure of “paid news” and coverage packages has been huge. There is anger and anguish over what the media have done and persist in doing. |
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The glacier melt (07 November 12:00) |
| The enormity of climate change and its impact is on everyone’s lips in Ladakh where over 80 per cent of the farmers depend on the snow melt for their needs. |
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Climate deal unlikely for up to a year (07 November 12:00) |
| World’s key industrialised nations say they have abandoned hope of a legally binding treaty at the Copenhagen summit in December. |
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VVIP security (07 November 12:00) |
| It is heartening to know that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sent a letter expressing regret to the family of Sumit Verma, who died because he was denied timely medical help owing to traf... |
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Enforcing the rule strictly (06 November 12:00) |
| It is a well-settled principle of law that the presence of a conflict of interest — actual or potential — is sufficient to disqualify judges from participating in legal proceedings. The ... |
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Hyping science (06 November 12:00) |
| When a two-decade-long search for an effective vaccine to prevent HIV infection has been a failure, the pressure to hype and provide spin to make results of a trial look successful increases... |
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In Kashmir the price of peace isnt right (06 November 12:00) |
| Kashmir’s secessionists want something New Delhi doesn’t have — and at a price it can’t afford. |
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Indian disorder and English precision (06 November 12:00) |
| Indiscipline may be an Indian hallmark but, as the Queen’s welcome to President Pratibha Patil suggests, it makes business sense to court India. |
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Australia puts its refugee problem on a remote island (06 November 12:00) |
| Regardless of how close a boat may have gotten to the mainland, the Australian authorities steer it to Christmas Island which remained uninhabited until about a century ago. |
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Ivory Coast toxic waste victims money frozen (06 November 12:00) |
| Lawyers say that money may simply disappear. |
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Cultural pluralism (06 November 12:00) |
| Malini Parthasarathy’s article “India’s cultural pluralism its best defence” (Nov. 5) is a well-written piece, which will hopefully reduce the heat on the controversy triggered by th... |
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Dialogue process (06 November 12:00) |
| This refers to the article “The limits of coercive diplomacy” (Nov. 4). India is not gaining much from its stand on the dialogue process. With Pakistan, it has had many high-level dialog... |
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West Muslims (06 November 12:00) |
| The rapid and drastic process of secularisation in Europe over the last few decades has not diminished the unease with which it views Islam and Muslims. Most British Muslims consider religio... |
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The shine is back (05 November 12:00) |
| The purchase of a sizable quantity of gold by the Reserve Bank of India from the International Monetary Fund is significant not just for India but for the IMF, and the global financial syste... |
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Afghanistans election fiasco (05 November 12:00) |
| On November 1, Abdullah Abdullah, the opposition candidate in the runoff round of the Afghan presidential election scheduled for November 7, withdrew his candidature. The Independent Electio... |
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Needed basic doctors of modern medicine (05 November 12:00) |
| Opening more medical colleges is not the solution to India’s chronic shortage of doctors in the rural areas. |
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Indias cultural pluralism its best defence (05 November 12:00) |
| To question the patriotism of the Muslim community on the ground that it refuses to “worship” India as a concept is to make a mockery of the real meaning of patriotism and national loyal... |
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He transformed western worlds outlook of “primitive” societies (05 November 12:00) |
| Claude Levi-Strauss sometimes expressed disgust with the West and what he called its ‘own filth, thrown in the face of mankind.’ |
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East Germany answers back (05 November 12:00) |
| The mutual mistrust between East and West Germans that followed the collapse of the Berlin Wall is diminishing and the social values of the East are being given greater credit. |
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Divorces dipping along with economy (05 November 12:00) |
| While squabbles over money have split up many a marriage, the lingering global recession is helping keep couples together — for better and for worse. More than half of the 1,600 lawyers wh... |
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Jamiat resolution (05 November 12:00) |
| Thanks to the resolution passed at the 30th general session of the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind that patriotism does not require the singing of Vande Mataram and that singing it is un-Islamic, the BJ... |
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Towards full disclosure (04 November 12:00) |
| The promise made in August that financial assets of Supreme Court judges will be in public domain has been more or less fulfilled with 21 judges, including the Chief Justice of India, postin... |
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Alls not well in Andhra Pradesh (04 November 12:00) |
| By initiating and then calling off an alliance with film star K. Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam for the upcoming polls to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, the Congress party has se... |
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The limits of coercive diplomacy (04 November 12:00) |
| India has achieved all it can hope to with its silence; there is nothing more it can reasonably hope to gain by refusing to restart the dialogue process with Pakistan. |
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Russia tries once again to rein in vodka habit (04 November 12:00) |
| It was late on a Monday afternoon at the drunk tank in Mytishchi, a Moscow suburb, but it could have been any day, at any hour, at any similar facility across this land. People would come. T... |
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Quest for the ideal healthcare model (04 November 12:00) |
| The argument in healthcare must move from the conventional “should there be a unit cost?” to “who will pay the unit cost?” |
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Climate sceptics must be resisted (04 November 12:00) |
| George Monbiot’s fiercest opponents on global warming tend to be in their 60s and 70s. This offers a fascinating, if chilling, insight into human psychology. |
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Al Gore turns to God to help spread climate message (04 November 12:00) |
| To appeal to those who believe there is a moral or religious duty to protect the planet. |
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Alcohol politics (04 November 12:00) |
| As the article “Alcohol politics, policies and public health” (Nov. 3) points out, while total prohibition is a failure as seen in Gujarat, unrestricted permissiveness has caused serious... |
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On the hijab (04 November 12:00) |
| It is true that male domination was prevalent in society till recently and its traces still exist. This is true of all communities. But in the case of Muslims, male dominance assumes a diffe... |
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Taking due credit (03 November 12:00) |
| The Indian financial system in general and banks in particular have acquitted themselves creditably in the face of the serious global crisis. The reasons why the domestic financial instituti... |
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Double standards on Iraq and Iran (03 November 12:00) |
| Occupied Iraq’s approach to the French nuclear industry for help with the reconstruction of at least one of its reactors, and its opening of discussions with the International Atomic Energ... |
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Alcohol politics policies and public health (03 November 12:00) |
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The money minefields of Karnataka (03 November 12:00) |
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Seeds of next crisis being sown right now (03 November 12:00) |
| Mesmerised by big finance, policymakers are sowing the seeds of a new crisis. |
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A feminist playwrights take on the “hijab” (03 November 12:00) |
| Women’s Islamic dress code has become one of the most contentious issues in the post-9/11 debate on Islam which, Muslims complain, has been conducted almost wholly on the assumption that w... |
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Greenpeace activists protest in Barcelona (03 November 12:00) |
| Twenty members of the ecological pressure group Greenpeace staged a protest against climate change in Barcelona on Monday, where the fourth round of the U.N. climate change talks this year k... |
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Hooda crosses first hurdle (02 November 12:00) |
| The first hurdle, they say in hurdling, is not the most difficult one. All the same Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda must be pleased to have the confidence vote in the State Asse... |
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Taxing foreign inflows (02 November 12:00) |
| Brazil’s recent decision to impose a two per cent tax on portfolio inflows has wide ranging implications for global finance and for countries such as India. The move is aimed at arresting ... |
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India and its troublesome neighbours (02 November 12:00) |
| A colossal amount of damage has been done by the Indian acolytes of the “string of pearls” thesis. Some dispassionate analysis will be in order. |
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Charting a new course for space exploration (02 November 12:00) |
| A NASA-appointed committee and MIT academics favour including China and India in future U.S. partnerships for manned space exploration. |
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Soft focus on APEC geopolitics (02 November 12:00) |
| Potential membership of the forum of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is something that India cannot exclude from its world-view. |
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Horror stories help children grow up (02 November 12:00) |
| I have a clear memory of arguing with a school friend about which Stephen King novel was the most frightening. He was in firm favour of The Shining , while I believed that Salem’s Lot was ... |
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Peace in Londons free sheet wars (02 November 12:00) |
| When the final issue of Associated Newspapers’ London Lite hits the streets in a month, the British capital’s three-year afternoon free sheet war will end. London Lite — which launched... |
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25 years later (02 November 12:00) |
| The article “Twenty-five years later” by Pranay Gupte (Oct. 31) was moving. Indira Gandhi was an outstanding Prime Minister. The goongi gudia , as she was initially described, became a f... |
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Media greed during elections poses serious ethical questions (02 November 12:00) |
| Electoral malpractices such as bribing voters, impersonation, intimidation of voters by the goons of rival candidates, tampering with vote lists, and manipulating the location of polling boo... |
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Journalism for sale (31 October 12:00) |
| India’s elections, which in mid-2009 brought 415 million voters to the 1.18 million ballot units in 834,944 polling stations and were mostly peaceful, may be one of the wonders of the worl... |
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US economy breathes again (31 October 12:00) |
| Government stimulus packages have virtually the same effect on the economy as a mechanical ventilator has on a patient with breathing difficulty. They get a slumping economy ticking again, b... |
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