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Opinion

Pak ties won’t improve soon

China’s intention in developing a string of ports, including Gwadar in Pakistan, are too well-known.

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

So much to be done in India, says a desi neta from Japan

Yogendra Puranik, a naturalised Japanese, secured 6,477 votes, the fifth-highest of the 226,561 valid ballots cast on April 21.

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Mystic Mantra: Life lessons are everywhere

The fan taught me how to spread happiness. Happiness is there in every being like air is there everywhere in the atmosphere.

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

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EC must act to ensure polls appear to be fair

Amusingly, no instance has been reported of a malfunctioning EVM giving the green light to any other party.

Monday, April 29, 2019

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Jaya’s death: Probe pointless

The judge seemed to wish to get into the political aspects of the Jaya case than stick to his brief.

Monday, April 29, 2019

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First Brexit, next climate: Will London be the world’s new ‘dharna capital’?

The movement has received £ 200,000 in the last week alone by way of donations.

Monday, April 29, 2019

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Mystic Mantra: Care for the earth

The king was puzzled because this old man, who is one hundred years, cannot even hope to see the next spring.

Monday, April 29, 2019

Interview of the Week

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 Kerala health minister Shailaja interacts with her Karnataka counterpart on the Covid-19 situation. (DC Photo)

How Kerala flattened the curve, lowest death rates: Health minister Shailaja explains

Health department constituted 18 expert groups in training health care staff for detailed stock-taking of beds, equipment in each hospital

Hemant Soren

‘I don’t support laws that go against Preamble’

We can’t make people stand in queue again like the way it happened during demonetisation, says Hemant Soren.

Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit

‘The attack on JNU was barbaric in the least’

All the claims being made by the AAP in the areas of education and health are hugely exaggerated and we will expose them, says Sandeep Dikshit

Dr Robert Dickson Crane

Let Muslims be like Franciscans, espousing faith

A totalitarian system would reduce the possibility of a confederation of peoples.

The Age Debate

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A file photo of the disqualified MLAs at Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru.

Age Debate: A win for BJP and the disqualified, really?

The BJP is elated as it can look to their support - if they win the bypolls - to shore up their numbers.

French President Francois Hollande (Photo: AP)

Age Debate: Rafale - Time to clear the air

A joint parliamentary committee probe is the only way to resolve Rafale controversy.

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Age Debate: A new roadmap for Kashmir?

Holding municipal/panchayat polls in J&K amid the NC-PDP boycott will be a farce.

The NRC in Assam is a welcome beginning and all political parties should join hands with one belief that the nation comes first.

Age Debate: Targeting aliens or citizens?

It will be premature to extend the NRC to the whole of India at this juncture.

Reporter's Diary

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An SP leader said that this was a “more peaceful way of communicating with the media.

Reporters' Diary: Keeping media at bay

UP Chief minister Yogi Adityanath also does not take questions in his press conferences that are, in any case, few and far in-between.

Simmering with rage, Mr Khan now stays away from party functions, including iftar, does not communicate with party leaders and has stopped meeting Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Reporters' Diary: Angrily yours

As the probe began, the SP chose to turn a blind eye to the development and did not issue a single statement in support of Mr Khan.

The spokespersons have conveniently forgotten the murky bungalow episode and are not even bothering to ask the Yogi Adityanath government to produce the inventory about items that were claimed to have gone missing when Mr Yadav vacated the bungalow.

Reporters' Diary: Happy holidays!

A number of social organisations also made the similar demand.

The ones that are available are in townships that are developing on the outskirts of the state capital and are not ready to move in.

Reporters' Diary: EX-CMs in UP go house hunting

The problem is that with the Lucknow skyline going up, bungalows with sprawling lawns are now a rarity.

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