Topic: walled garden
India needs laws to regulate app stores but first know how Google, Apple control the system
Google's attempt to bring its model of operation closer to Apple’s App Store and build a similar tightly controlled mobile environment has been thwarted. But for how long?
On Camera
YourTurn
Pakistan can learn from Israel’s secret weapon and arrest its intellectual decline
How did Israel, a country of nine million — between one-half and one-third of Karachi’s population — manage to subdue 400m Arabs?
Keep calm and carry on: Unlike wheat, rice isn’t hot yet
The world is worried that India might restrict exports of rice after wheat, pushing prices higher and worsening global food security.
Defence
India’s Eastern Seaboard gets its first naval air squadron INAS 324
With INAS 324, the Indian Navy's Eastern Seaboard will now operate a naval air squadron with HAL’s indigenously built Advanced Light Helicopter.
Moral, political & ideological questions on Maharashtra: 1st is simplest to answer, 3rd trickiest
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.