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Lost miracle: How India wasted an opportunity to add $200 billion to its economy

The three stars of a ruling party's Parliament majority, development agenda and low oil prices may never align again, that is the biggest takeaway from Economic Survey 2018.

A new low as the Congress marks prisoners by their religion in Karnataka

The Karnataka state government is seeing crime through the prism of the religion column mentioned in the FIR.  

In the age of hashtag feminism, we honoured a cop who molested a child, ruined her family

If Ruchika Girhotra was molested in the #MeToo era, DGP Rathore would be in jail for a long time. But he was a VIP invitee at the R-Day function in Panchkula.

With a resurgent Taliban and growing ISIS, no one is safe in Afghanistan

The silver lining is that Trump’s expanded troop presence is meant to help fill lingering gaps in Afghan security capacities—including intelligence collection.

Virat Kohli plays the Ugly Indian. But a victorious one, so who are we to complain

Hail a dazzling genius-brat who hates losing and thinks manners are for sissies. He’d rather be crude and competitive than courteous and an also-ran, the old Indian good-loser.

Prakash Karat has led CPM towards a historic blunder by shooting down Congress alliance

Indian communists have come to regret many political blunders – from opposing Quit India to supporting Emergency. Saying no to anti-Modi alliance could be another.

A glimpse inside the secret Madhu Kishwarji Fan Club WhatsApp Group

Inside the Madhu Kishwar Fan Club WhatsApp group after the controversy surrounding her tweet on the attack on the school bus in Gurugram. 

Encounter killing of aspiring model in Pakistan highlights racial profiling of Pathans

Not only do our popular TV offerings show the Pathan husband as the wife-beating patriarch, but even commissioned projects by the authorities to promote patriotism stigmatise the Pathans by portraying them as terrorists.

Parayan, poramboku and devadasi: The dark casteist history of these common words

Does the cleansing of language and old text amount to a dangerous process of whitewashing our ugly past?

Shashi Tharoor on why the Jaipur Lit Fest is not just about parties and celebrity writers

Many at the Jaipur Literature Festival are drawn by the idea of taking selfies with celebrities than with reading their books or engaging with their ideas.

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Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

India bond yields rise as RBI moves to drain liquidity, lift overnight rates

New Delhi: India’s sovereign bond yields rose after the central bank announced its first step this year to drain cash from the banking system,...

Army promotes Col Purohit, acquitted in 2008 Malegaon blast case, to Brigadier; to not retire yet

This means he will serve Indian Army for a minimum of another 2 years as Brigadier, unless he picks up the next rank of Major General.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.