Today (January 12, 2013) is the 150th birth anniversary of one of India's most revered philosophers and religious leaders. One of the landmarks of Swami ...
01:47 PM, Jan 12, 2013
A sinister wind of communal violence is blowing across the country. A senior editorial colleague tells me that it is being fanned by fanatic saffron ...
11:25 PM, Aug 25, 2012
In forty-four months, the standing committees of Parliament which examined the land acquisition bills have done an about turn on the issue of the state ...
06:17 PM, May 22, 2012
What has happened to the nation? The Parliament is scared of cartoons while the government resents freedom of press. News broke on Friday that the ...
04:37 PM, May 15, 2012
Dear Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Let me at the outset say that I look at myself as one of your biggest fans, just like the ...
01:31 PM, Apr 27, 2012
The Parliament has mildly reprimanded Team Anna with Speaker Meira Kumar reading out a statement saying any comment that lowered the dignity of Parliament was ...
05:46 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Defence Minister A K Antony made some rare interventions in Parliament over the last two days after the Army Chief Gen V K Singh spoke ...
05:36 PM, Mar 28, 2012
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A pandal came up outside Ittooppu's tea stall. The year-end came as a bonus for the goat - three days of debate in Parliament on ...
09:59 PM, Jan 03, 2012
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Most of us in Mumbai had hoped for a quiet New Year after an eventful news year. But along came Anna. In the ...
09:06 PM, Dec 23, 2011
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The Parliament has been adjourned for the 9th day in a row; the notional loss to the country's exchequer touches the Rs 36 crore mark. ...
04:05 PM, Dec 02, 2011
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Three days after the Delhi bomb blast on 7 September, the PM convened a meeting of the National Integration Council. Surprisingly, combating terrorism was not ...
03:29 PM, Sep 15, 2011
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When Rahul Gandhi strode into Parliament yesterday with sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in tow, he made heads turn. The idea was just that - to ...
05:49 PM, Aug 27, 2011
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When I was a student, the options of what was considered a 'lucrative' career was severely limited. In those days, if one was pursuing a ...
10:11 AM, Aug 23, 2010
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Fourteen years ago, as a 13-day Vajpayee government fell, the BJP's man for all seasons, the late Pramod Mahajan offered an interesting explanation for what ...
12:32 AM, Apr 30, 2010
