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How India's family planners lost the plot (19 July 03:58) |
| India's population control measures, are a failure. Where did we go wrong? Experts blame the emphasis on sterilization, which was started in the late 1960s. |
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How Indias family planners lost the plot (19 July 03:58) |
| Indias population control measures are a failure Where did we go wrong Experts blame the emphasis on sterilization which was started in the late 1960s |
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NREGA is a promise half-kept (12 July 12:32) |
| If a BPL family were to get the full benefit of NREGA they could earn the equivalent of around 40% of their annual income from this scheme alone
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Bharat at work (12 July 12:28) |
| The UPA is showcasing its rural employment scheme as the harbinger of inclusive growth. Sunday Times reporters travel across the country to find out who's on the job.
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No small Change (05 July 01:33) |
| From Nehru's socialist era to Manmohan's market economy, consumer spending has come a long way. On budget eve, Sunday Times takes a look at the evolution of the Indian wallet over 60 years.... |
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Slimmer, sleeker, smarter (05 July 01:28) |
| Each generation has its own way of managing money. Also a unique way of carrying it. |
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Chasing the hard cash (05 July 01:26) |
| The 1980s was a turning point, not just for the country but also for a lot of young men and women who came out of centres of higher learning armed with fancy degrees. |
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Living it up on credit (05 July 01:24) |
| The wallet has evidently changed. It's no longer a small leather accessory in which you carried just your cash and cards. |
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Roti, kapda, makaan & mobile (05 July 01:22) |
| In the Nehruvian era when economic policies were dictated by self-sufficiency and a socialist principles, consumer sovereignty was mostly compromised because they did not get enough choices.... |
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No budget worries for Youngistan (05 July 01:16) |
| Most young Indians say they would be interested in the Budget only if it helps them save more taxes.
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More power needed for pushing renewable energy (05 July 01:13) |
| Renewables can solve our energy woes, if tapped in time. |
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Women in love: To hell and back in 15 days (28 June 11:55) |
| Earlier this month, two girls, of conservative families, did something all gay couples dream of but few have courage to execute. They got married and told their families. |
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Maya's megalomania? (28 June 12:03) |
| On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear a petition against the Mayawati government for using public money to build sandstone memorials across Lucknow. A glimpse of the new 'pink city'. |
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Straight talk (28 June 12:00) |
| Much of the debate about homosexuality in India has focused on Section 377, which criminalizes same-sex activity. |
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Thank god, we were born in the First World (28 June 12:00) |
| Depending upon where you are in Europe, if you lose your job you could get anything between 30% and 70% of your salary as unemployment allowance. |
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Where is my social security, Mr Prime Minister? (28 June 12:00) |
| The current economic turmoil has caused mass unemployment around the world. In 2008, just over 190 million people or 6% of the global workforce were unemployed. |
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Most needy, most ignored (28 June 12:00) |
| It was a sight to turn the stomachs of millions that October night last year: 800 employees of a leading airline were sobbing on a Mumbai street. They had just been sacked.
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We will spread this fire, says the Maoist from Lalgarh (21 June 08:48) |
| Comrade Manoj, a prominent CPI (Maoist) leader in Lalgarh, tells his story to TOI as a battle to retake his village is waged by the security forces. |
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We will spread this fire (21 June 01:48) |
| Comrade Manoj, a prominent CPI (Maoist) leader in Lalgarh, tells his story to Sukumar Mahato as security forces retake the village. |
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Maoists breed in swamps of hunger and anger (21 June 01:45) |
| True to their style, the Maoist cadres who roamed freely thus far will come out only under cover of darkness, leaving Lalgarh's hapless inhabitants to face the brutality of the security forc... |
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No revolution for old radicals (21 June 01:35) |
| Gautam Sen lived dangerously in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was part of a group who took a police sub-inspector hostage in order to get fellow college students released from the lock-... |
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The Evolution Of The ‘Azadi’ Manifesto (14 June 09:31) |
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Will Kashmir be safer, happier without Army? (14 June 09:30) |
| Worried over the Shopian protests, the Centre says it may reduce troop numbers in Kashmir. What does that mean to the children born in the shadow of the gun? |
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Hype, hope and horror (14 June 12:00) |
| When Omar took over, he was seen as the antithesis of his flamboyant father, Farooq, but now there is the growing impression that the chief minister devotes more time to his family than his ... |
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'Men in uniform are Kashmir's problem, not solution' (14 June 12:00) |
| This week, the lights behind the curtain are being moved around to give the illusion of change: the CRPF's duties are to be handed over to the J&K police.
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Beating retreat? (14 June 12:00) |
| Worried over the Shopian protests, the Centre says it may reduce troop numbers in Kashmir. What does that mean to the children born in the shadow of the gun? |
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Our worldwide web of students (07 June 12:58) |
| The attacks in Australia have turned the spotlight on the Indian student abroad. Sunday Times maps their global footprint.
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Is it hate, mate or just economics? (07 June 12:56) |
| The attacks need to be understood in the context of this change, as also the fact that many Indian students work nights at petrol pumps, take-away joints or drive taxis to fund their educati... |
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'If the world is shrinking, our horizons must broaden' (07 June 12:53) |
| There is a reason the Indian case has ultimately been treated differently: money. Australia is home to a large Indian community, and most relevantly, receives many thousands of international... |
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Survival Guide (07 June 12:51) |
| Melbourne or Mumbai, big cities anywhere can be dangerous. Fifteen handy precautions...
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The Great Indian Family: Dynasty shall prevail (31 May 03:07) |
| The oldest political dynasty - the Nehru-Gandhis - still call the shots. Others - the Karunanidhis, Abdullahs, Rama Raos and the Pawars follow in the footsteps of the first family of Indian ... |
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The great Indian family (31 May 01:31) |
| In India, the family has always been a great source of strength. But clans can also spell the end of professionalism. Isn't it time to scrutinise the people who dominate public life in India... |
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The Great Indian Family: Dynasty dominates India (31 May 01:31) |
| In India, the family has always been a great source of strength. But clans can also spell the end of professionalism. Isn't it time to scrutinise the people who dominate public life in India... |
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A Gene Called Patronage (31 May 01:28) |
| Academia is like sport in that it places only limited value on the right gene. Connections matter, but only when it comes to the right postings. Few can excel in academia on the basis of the... |
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The Great Indian Family: A Gene Called Patronage (31 May 01:28) |
| Academia is like sport in that it places only limited value on the right gene. Connections matter, but only when it comes to the right postings. Few can excel in academia on the basis of the... |
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Proud to be daddy's daughter & disciple (31 May 01:22) |
| But a sitar didn't just fell into my hands. I chose my father's instrument, just as his other disciples chose that instrument.
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The Great Indian Family: Proud to be daddy's daughter & disciple (31 May 01:22) |
| But a sitar didn't just fell into my hands. I chose my father's instrument, just as his other disciples chose that instrument.
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What's in a surname? Sometimes an awful lot (31 May 01:15) |
| Professional success in isolation, based on the broken dreams of others, would be the emptiest achievement possible.
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The Great Indian Family: What's in a surname? Sometimes an awful lot (31 May 01:15) |
| Professional success in isolation, based on the broken dreams of others, would be the emptiest achievement possible.
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Inside the mind of Rahul Gandhi (24 May 01:18) |
| Rahul's buddies and aides say he has transferred his management skills to the Indian countryside in the year-and-a-half that he has been on a 'Discovery of India' tour.
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New idiom for a new generation (24 May 01:17) |
| This is the first time since Rajiv Gandhi reduced the voting age to 18 that Congress is putting youth to work as a political concept.
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How Punjab was won (24 May 01:15) |
| It is no mean achievement to have 3.5 lakh young men and women rushing to join the state unit of a political party in the course of a month.
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Young India sees politics as a management challenge (24 May 01:13) |
| A year ago when Rahul Gandhi embarked on his mission to democratize the Youth Congress and NSUI, hardly anyone could have said for sure that he would be successful.
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Mama's world: A million choices now (10 May 02:44) |
| Indian mothers may have much the same DNA, but motherhood is no longer all about biology. It's about attitude and choices.
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Mother India? (10 May 02:36) |
| From maa to mom, Bollywood mothers are work In progress, just like our changing society. |
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Don't worship them, just learn to respect women (10 May 02:33) |
| It's not enough to worship mothers, they need attention and consideration in real life too. But worship becomes a convenient excuse - for then you can say, ‘look, how much we look up to mo... |
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Shell shocked Tamils ducked bombs, saw loved ones die (03 May 01:51) |
| They cowered in bunkers, ducked bombs and saw their loved ones die. Three Tamil families from Lanka's northern war zone recount the trauma of leaving home.
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Post-Tigers, a new dawn? (03 May 12:32) |
| The term ‘post-LTTE era’ dominates discussions on Sri Lanka. What now for the Tamils? What now for the ‘Tamil Eelam’ battle cry, first heard in 1976?
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‘We have a 4D roadmap to normalcy’ (03 May 12:31) |
| The rehabilitation and reconstruction policy of my administration is based on the four ‘Ds’ - Demilitarization, Democracy, Development and Devolution.
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Colonial cousins (26 April 12:16) |
| M K Gandhi, who arrived in Johannesburg in 1893 to practise law, got embroiled in local politics after he was thrown out of a train because of the colour of his skin.
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