In bid to emulate Indira, Rahul can only be a bad copy

Ram Manohar Lohia was far from being apt when he described Indira Gandhi as “gungi gudia (dumb doll)”. The loquacious socialist leader obviously always proved to be more than a match even for her father Jawaharlal Nehru when it comes to ...more

 

Spot fixing: Cops are right in not giving CSK boss more time

While a Mumbai Police team did not find either Gurunanth Meiyappan, ‘team principal’ of IPL team Chennai Super Kings and son in law of BCCI chief and team owner N Srinivasan, at his home yesterda...more

Sacked UP babu got too much of land he walked

Do you talk the land you walk? In case of Uttar Pradesh, it seems so. The ancient place has always cast — history is witness — its soothing effect on its inhabitants, rendering them tol...more

>> Sheila Dikshit and the price of political publicity

>> Delhi Police chief can stay off IPL but his logic's a bit awry

>> Govt offering nearly 200 services through cell phones

>> How a bank bridges urban-rural money transfer gap in seconds

DINK, forever: why I don't want kids

Shortly after we hit our first wedding anniversary, the questions started. First it was family, asking us for the eup...More

>> Finance scandals: fix criminal liability

>> Delhi's jugaad urbanisation

>> A case of misplaced priorities

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'Govt not in position to give more money to sick PSUs'

Nitish Sengupta, a renowned economist and a career bureaucrat, is at present chairperson of the Board for Reconstruct...More

>> 'Women's reservation bill should have quota for Dalits, minorities'

>> Let judiciary have oversight on CBI, says ex-director

>> Black money: A white man's burden

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In peccadillo, sacked Murthy fathers a verb: Phaneesh-ed!

Doing some funny business with a colleague of opposite sex in office? Stop Phaneesh-ing colleagues with your peccadilloes, pal, or you could be Phaneesh-ed like Phaneesh – sacked and packed off to face lawsuit(s)...More

>> Keep calm and be strong for others

>> Sanjay Dutt: hero to joker in 6 weeks as he surrenders today

>> Why are our aspirational films so tedious?

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India slack on corruption, says UN body

A week before India comes under the mandatory 'review mechanism' at the United Nations Convention Against Corruption ...More

>> Lok Sabha wasted over half its schedule time: PRS

>> Clean energy? Delhi's the worst performer

>> UN projects liberal estimation of India's growth

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Has Indian sport reduced women to cheerleaders?

Three months ago, I resumed playing badminton after an 18-year sabbatical. When I last played, at...More

 

Rape of Reason? Little data to link porn with rape

A recent public interest litigation (PIL) in the supreme court to make it illegal to watch porn, ...More

 

One bank gives leg up to dreams in a UP village

Every time a walking stick saves an old man from falling over, somebody in this small village in ...More