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China’s High Stakes in Yemen Conflict
5 April 2015, by M K BhadrakumarThe level of interest in Beijing on the developments in Yemen is apparently very high. This is only to be expected, arguably, considering that China depends on the Gulf countries for half of all its crude oil imports, apart from having (...) -
How do we Live Down the Shame of Hashimpura?
30 March 2015EDITORIAL
There are enough flip-flops in the Union Government’s approach to the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill. While it is determined to push the legislation through even by calling a joint session of both Houses of Parliament, as conveyed (...) -
Miscarriage of Justice in Hashimpura
30 March 2015, by Vidya Bhushan RawatOne of the most famous lines on the official All India Radio news bulletins during communal disturbances used to be ‘Sthiti tanavpurn lekin niyantran me hain (the situation is tense but under control)’ and police and paramilitary forces have been (...) -
The Litmus Test
30 March 2015, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The menace of communalism looms large in this country today perhaps more than at any time before. With all the dire warnings being sounded repeatedly against the danger of destabilisation, the government so far has done very (...) -
Fly High or Crash Land
30 March 2015, by N V K MurthyThe new BJP Government has placed its first complete Budget before Parliament. It shows great hope. The Finance Minister has anticipated a growth rate of 8.5 per cent. The Economist of February 21-27 has an editorial on the subject with the (...) -
Tedious Neighbours
30 March 2015, by Kuldip NayarOur neighbouring countries are getting curiouser and curiouser. Pakistan is determined to free Zia-ur Rahman Lakhvi who had masterminded the Mumbai attack in 2008 when some 165 people were killed at Hotel Taj through the sea, near the Gateway of (...) -
Vedic Science: The hue of Saffron Ideology
30 March 2015by Navneet Sharma, Pradeep Nair and Harikrishnan B.
“Ancient Sanskrit literature is full of descriptions of flying machines — Vimanas.... [T]he scientist sages Agastya and Bharadwaja had developed the lore of aircraft construction. Aeronautics (...) -
West Bengal at Crossroads: An Insight into the Emerging Political Dynamics
30 March 2015by Ayan Guha
Politics of West Bengal is going through a transition. The Left seems to be on a road to steady decline while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is looking poised to take on the role of the principal Opposition to the Trinamul (...) -
Morarji Rubbished early Defence Efforts; New Moves must Make Up for Lost Decades
30 March 2015, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
At the Aero India show in Bangalore, Narendra Modi made a statement that could well be a national motto. Said he: “I don’t want India to be No. 1 in the import of defence equipment... We should export.” This is an epiphany that took (...) -
Public Hero — Paying for Honesty
30 March 2015, by Sudhir VombatkereThere is a joke doing the rounds, on failure of the pillars of the Constitution. Gandhiji in heaven asks Chitragupta as to how the three monkeys (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil) are doing in India. Chitragupta replies that all three (...)
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