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Topic: TalkPoint

TalkPoint: Is the new global study right to suggest that home cadre posting can give rise to corruption among IAS officers?

ThePrint Team -
Experts weigh in on whether the UC Davis study is right to suggest that home cadre posting can give rise to corruption among IAS officers.

TalkPoint: Has Holi become a festival of fear for women?

ThePrint Team -
Experts weigh in on harassment women face during the festival of Holi.

TalkPoint: With higher import duties, is Narendra Modi turning protectionist?

ThePrint Team -
The Narendra Modi government has hiked the import tariffs across sectors to a 30-year high. Experts weigh in the effect this could have on the nation's economy.

It is misplaced to say that 19 rounds of talks with China have not made headway

S.L. Narasimhan -
The Special Representative talks are confidential in nature and therefore, the progress made in these talks is not in the public domain.

China seems to have no inclination to move on the boundary question

Harsh V. Pant -
ThePrint asks: Is it possible to break the India-China border talks deadlock? India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and China’s State Councillor, Yang Jiechi, special representatives...

The meaning of Modi’s tears for critics and fans

Santosh Desai -
It is not about how human Modi is. It is a testament to the amount of energy and effort that he has invested. Passion and commitment overwhelm him.

Voters support BJP not for love but for keeping away rabid anti-Hindus in Congress camp

Shankar Sharan -
The fact that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had to sweat it out in his home, despite no organised opposition , says a lot about the voters' mind now.

We had the Modi factor in 2014, this time there seems to be the birth of the Rahul factor

Anand Kumar -
Rahul Gandhi’s trust in the new leadership of Patidars, OBCs, and Dalits has been successful in creating a generational shift in the electoral competition.

Talk Point: Any attempt to equate Modi and Indira is a one-dimensional facile exercise

Zoya Hasan -
The fundamental difference between the two leaders has to do with their varied backgrounds and ideologies.

Talk Point: Is Virat Kohli now the greatest ODI batsman ever?

ThePrint Team -
Virat Kohli's new career ODI ratings peak of 889 is higher than Sachin Tendulkar’s. Is he now the greatest ODI batsman ever?
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Economy

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Esha Mishra -
Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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