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March 25, 2024

PM Modi could swing Tesla to India

On March 15, the government announced a new scheme to promote investment in EVs. Any company willing to invest $500 million in a new manufacturing facility that begins production in three years…

Rajab: The month of peace and pluralism

Rajab is the seventh month of Islamic Lunar Calendar. This month is a prelude to Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic calendar in which Muslims are commanded to observe fasting from…
March 23, 2018

The Book that Shaped the World

Has anybody ever come across a book that contains a preface where its author mentions its infallibility from any single error? Has anyone ever heard of any author who talks with such…
March 23, 2018

The road ahead for Congress

Congress president Rahul Gandhi took out one arrow after another at the recent Congress plenary session and shot them at Prime Minister NarendraModi and his government, much to the delight of Congress…
March 23, 2018

Going for broke

“Millions of ordinary Congress workers throughout the country are full of enthusiasm for Congress policies and programmes,” Rajiv Gandhi had said at the Congress’s centenary session in Bombay in 1985. “But they…
March 23, 2018

Why war zones lure Indians

It’s a sad week for all Indians. The NarendraModi government has finally confirmed that all the 39 Indian labourers who were abducted by ISIS in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, in 2014,…
March 23, 2018

The original sin of the 21st century

Fifteen years ago today, Iraq was cast into the abyss as the US administration under George W Bush launched one of the most destructive invasions in modern history. In his now infamous…
March 22, 2018

LET US OBSERVE IT TOGETHER

World Water Day, on 22 March every year, is about focusing attention on the importance of water. The theme for World Water Day 2018 is ‘Nature for Water’ – exploring nature-based solutions…
March 22, 2018

To what end, muscularity?

Speaking at his annual press conference in January, Army Chief General BipinRawat said that India had for too long kept its focus on the western borders and militarily, it had to shift…
March 22, 2018

Separate freedoms

Last year, before a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court in K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India, the Central government posited a frightening thesis. The Constitution, it argued, does not recognise a…
March 22, 2018

EVMs or Ballot Papers, the Way Forward

Elections are the festival of democracies and the same holds true for India, the world’s largest democracy. Indians, after achieving independence from the British colonialism, have been exercising their voting rights to…
March 22, 2018
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