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Ghatkopar hoarding collapse a typical Mumbai disaster—too many agencies, no one to blame

Manasi Phadke - 18 May, 2024

Mamata’s ‘outside support’ push has many meanings. Does she want INDIA to pick TMC over Left?

Is Bookstagram the new fast fashion? It has turned reading into a performance

Putin’s worry isn’t the military. The surprise reshuffle of his defence cabinet means much more

One lone, brave voice stood up against anti-defection law in 1985. All his predictions came true

+TFP Yogendra Yadav - 6 July, 2022

When it comes to anti-defection law, the cure is worse than the disease.

Giving up on NPS a tragedy for state govts. DB pensions are ad hoc, delay fiscal stress

Renuka Sane - 6 July, 2022

Several of the problems of the National Pensions Scheme can be easily remedied. The solution to fiscal stress isn't going back two decades ago.

Highway upgrade, droughts in one state affect housing demand in another, study shows

Arnab Dutta - 6 July, 2022

Researchers from Southern California and Manchester universities studied Census data to look at urban India's response to migration-induced housing demand.

Cobalt, copper, China: India should pay more attention to the savage violence in Congo

+TFP Praveen Swami - 6 July, 2022

Leaving security to mercenaries is a path to proxy wars, colonial-era savagery. Democracies like India with an economic stake can't remain sidelined.

‘Injustice’ in Telangana — it pays more to tear political posters down than to repair them

Bharat Agrawal - 6 July, 2022

BJP's worried media department had to whisk Vasundhara Scindia away when they saw her mingling with reporters after the press briefing had concluded.

Growing frustration in youth has the Chinese govt worried. It sees solution in hukou

Aadil Brar - 6 July, 2022

Hukou is a household registry allowing citizens to access social benefits, education, purchasing property, and other government services in the area they live.

India has interests on both sides of US-China divide. Cold War holds clues for path ahead

Lt General Prakash Menon - 5 July, 2022

India’s strategic balance is weighted towards the West and its economic balance is towards China. But it needs more to build a multipolar world order.

What India—Hindus and Muslims—missed in Supreme Court’s ‘lecture’ on Nupur Sharma

Zainab Sikander - 5 July, 2022

Reaction to SC remark shows India has become a nation full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

‘To live is to kill’ — a Malabar pit viper and gliding frog affirm nature’s basic law

Neha Panchamiya - 5 July, 2022

Amboli Ghat is known as the ‘Cherrapunji’ of Maharashtra. The UNESCO World Heritage Site sustains its ecosystem with nature's most essential law.

Patel, Nehru were right on strong Centre. Just look at US, you can’t leave it to the states

+TFP Jaithirth Rao - 5 July, 2022

Strong centres can be misused. But let’s not forget that there are many more competing checks and balances on central governments than on states.

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Ghatkopar hoarding collapse a typical Mumbai disaster—too many agencies, no one to blame

Mamata’s ‘outside support’ push has many meanings. Does she want INDIA to pick TMC over Left?

Is Bookstagram the new fast fashion? It has turned reading into a performance

Putin’s worry isn’t the military. The surprise reshuffle of his defence cabinet means much more

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Ghatkopar hoarding collapse a typical Mumbai disaster—too many agencies, no one to blame

Mamata’s ‘outside support’ push has many meanings. Does she want INDIA to pick TMC over Left?

Is Bookstagram the new fast fashion? It has turned reading into a performance

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