The Hindu
India-UAE: an enduring relationship »
If a photograph could capture the rapport between two leaders, the one appearing on the front pages of many newspapers on [...]
Economic Times
Arbitrary DoT… »
This should not happen in liberalised India. The Department of Telecom ordered S Tel, a new entrant to [...]
Towards women’s equality »
We welcome the government’s decision to move the 108th Constitution Amendment Bill to reserve one-third [...]
LED, kindly light »
A proposal of the Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Energy Trust to set up a solid-state light emitting diode [...]
Mint
Children of the tech revolution »
It is ironical that the dot-com bubble burst on 10 March 2000 and almost exactly 10 years later Forbes magazine has reported that Bill Gates relinquished [Read More]
Hindustan Times
Let’s play it fair & square »
The passion with which senior leaders like Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad and [...]
Atom Heart Brothers »
Nuclear power wins so much public praise that its advocacy is developing religious [...]
Now to make the Bill work »
For 14 long years, the Women’s Reservation Bill has been one of the most controversial [...]
Times of India
Sanjiv Kaura: Language Without Barriers »
"We must at present do our best to form...a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect." With these words, spoken in 1835, Lord Macaulay crystallised an imperial approach to the English language that, [Read More]
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Indian Express
Topic of cancer
Why a scorpion? The “pictorial warning” of the dangers of cancer that’s currently on chewing tobacco, or gutka, pouches isn’t even a crab, which at least has the advantage of being associated with cancer by the more zodiac-minded among us. (Who, one presumes, must be warned pictorially that scorpio, not cancer, kills.) And the black insect [...]
Without Afridi?
Even by Pakistan cricket’s stratospheric standards of unpredictability, there was something reckless in the disciplinary action announced on Wednesday. After the disastrous tour of Australia, something had to give. It did, and how. In essence, the Pakistan Cricket Board has deprived itself of its most talented players. While players could yet [...]
Mind the geography
As it affirms the commitment to stay the course in Afghanistan following the attack on unarmed Indian citizens in Kabul at the end of February, Delhi must adapt to the rapidly evolving circumstances in the north-western subcontinent. Neither bravado on standing up to terror nor the pique towards Pakistan, which is trying to hustle India out of [...]
Bangkok siege
A familiar feeling of siege is once again gripping Bangkok. The so-called Red Shirts have planned to gather in the Thai capital for anti-government protests. Collected under the banner of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, they are supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, now in exile after being removed in a [...]
Mandal fade-out
We are not anti-women but we want reservations for women hailing from minority and backward classes first,” Mulayam Singh Yadav chanted a familiar plaint, as he stuck by his opposition to the long-pending legislation to reserve 33 per cent of seats in legislatures for women. Meanwhile, Lalu Prasad Yadav slammed the bill as a “diversionary [...]
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