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Monsoon prospects for this year have not been encouraging, and the nation is faced with the spectre of a looming drought. For a country whose economy is largely rural and therefore dependent on agriculture, this for…

The nation called India has 22 languages recognized by the Union government. We are surely not counting those innumerable dialects like Rajasthani, Bhojpuri or Kosali in this list. Recently the central government’s directive to give prominence…

The newly elected Speaker of the just elected 15th Orissa Legislative Assembly (OLA) has made his mark with a ruling that is not only monumental but also an extremely welcome one. Sri Niranjan Pujari, the Speaker,…

Clearly, the deadly attack on a youth from the minority community in Pune has come at the most inopportune moment for the Narendra Modi government at the Centre that has just started its innings. The signals…

For some, the new government unveiled by Narendra Modi Monday has failed to inspire. After all the hype and hoopla, it is a run-of-the mill exercise. There is little by way of a pleasant surprise, and…

Corporate India has got its moment of glory. When Obama announced a new health policy and his wife Michelle started a campaign amongst the youth to shun fast food and go in for healthy homemade snacks,…

The Manmohan Singh era in Indian politics draws to a close with the Prime Minister bidding goodbye to his office staff Tuesday, followed by his last cabinet meeting. As the heat and dust of the General…

International Labour Day that has just passed by was also an occasion for many to shed tears — some genuine and more crocodile — over the way children are denied education and made to work at…

Too little, too late — and of little consequence. The Centre has submitted a list of 26 names to the Supreme Court Tuesday of Indian citizens who have money stashed in foreign banks. Those who are…

The Siamese cat got out of the bag when Air India gave marching orders to 10 airhostesses who reported late for work this week and delayed their respective flight departures. If anything, this explained more about…

Former prime minister Narasimha Rao stated in a famous interview after he took office in the early ’90s that the best way for India to exist was to coexist. Scholarly Rao stressed this for the obvious…

Inpidual freedom of human beings is truly signified by a state of complete yet considerate anarchy. In the theory of Karl Marx, the culmination of development is perceptible when the State withers away. Similarly, many yogis…