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Did the UPA use cash to win the trust vote in 2008? It would be naive to believe that it did not. Should Manmohan Singh ...

11:24 AM, Mar 21, 2011
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Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said the Railways were passing through "difficult" and "testing" times. How come? The Indian economy is growing at 8.6 percent a ...

08:34 PM, Feb 25, 2011
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A colleague, who has done very well for himself and lives on Mumbai's Pali Hill, sent a new year's day message advising his friends not ...

05:56 PM, Jan 12, 2011
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Chasing growth is "stupid" says Professor Amartya Sen. That he is obsessed with growth is "nonsense" says Professor Jagdish Bhagwati. At the time when the ...

05:21 PM, Jan 04, 2011
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The closure report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Aarushi murder case should not be the end of the matter. Its admission ...

03:05 PM, Dec 31, 2010
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The Tatas are known as India's most ethical group. It is a reputation well earned. Infosys may have has a squeaky clean image but it ...

04:01 PM, Nov 29, 2010
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By publishing the taped conversations that Tata group and Reliance Industries lobbyist Niira Radia had with select journalists, magazines Open and Outlook, and Mail Today ...

04:31 PM, Nov 27, 2010
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President Barack Obama is not visiting Bangalore or Hyderabad but can he avoid shaking hands with IT industry leaders? Right-wing radio hosts and channels like ...

04:00 PM, Oct 29, 2010
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Guest editors on Karan Thapar's show, the Last Word, gave high marks for media coverage of the Commonwealth Games. Only Swapan Dasgupta gave it 50:50. ...

06:19 PM, Oct 23, 2010
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Hanoi was celebrating its 1000th anniversary when Delhi was hosting the Commonwealth Games. Fearing that the Games would be a no-show and opting not to ...

12:02 PM, Oct 20, 2010
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The political Opposition seems to have got it wrong. They have misjudged the mood of the nation. If there was ever a popular Budget, this ...

07:25 PM, Feb 26, 2010
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At one time the Tatas used to say, "We also make steel." That was in the early 1990s when Russy Modi was heading Tisco, as ...

05:27 PM, Feb 24, 2010

The exchange of views happened at a debate, "Can Rural Reporting Be Sexy." ...

08:49 PM, Jan 26, 2010
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I am a Metro enthusiast. So I did not need persuasion when Line 4 went into service. I had decided to make the Metro a ...

05:57 PM, Jan 09, 2010
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News space was blatantly on sale in the run-up to the last Lok Sabha elections. Newspapers had fixed the rates for interviews with candidates, coverage ...

12:09 PM, Oct 29, 2009