If the Indian economy has to grow at a rate of nine or ten percent, certain risks need to be taken and bureaucrats trying to achieve this goal by taking…
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The ‘Make in India’ tableau on January 26 showcased a mechanical lion charged with rotating cogs and wheels moving to metallic, trance-like beats as part of the Republic Day parade,…
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Narendra Modi’s economy managers are busy ensuring that India puts its best foot forward, like the troopers in the Republic Day parade, when Barack Obama comes calling. They have started…
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Charlie Hebdo and Selective Outrage The French satirists should never have died. 10 of them paid the price for sketching cartoons with candour and scant regard for propriety. It was…
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Thousands of users of the taxi-hailing service Uber were in for a shock when a 27-year-old finance professional registered a complaint with Delhi Police that she was raped by the…
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Darjeeling, West Bengal: For the past couple of months, 20-year-old Praneel Gurung has been training under retired Army officers to join a force of “peacekeepers” called Gorkhaland Personnel, causing concern…
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Mamata Banerjee adresses a public rally in West Bengal. It happened last year. Passengers on an Air India flight from Delhi were waiting in a drizzle for ferry buses at…
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The timing may seem convenient, locations debatable, but there’s no taking away from the fact that as many as 1,109 weapons and 11,088 rounds of ammunition have been recovered after…
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It’s often said there is a woman behind every successful man. In the case of jailed CMD of the Saradha Chit funds Sudipto Sen, there were no fewer than six…
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A familiar sense of loss, gruesome memories of violence and rude reminders of upheavals have united virtual strangers for a common cause. A motley group of people across the globe…
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