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Playing On Your TV: Girls Aloud
The youthful Indian women’s team that took the field in the T20 World Cup turned a new corner in their game: brash, clinical, exhilarating
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March 23, 2020
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YES, YOU ARE IN QUEUE
The crisis in Yes Bank had been apparent for years, but regulatory oversight was lacking
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March 23, 2020
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‘Himachalis are honest, tough… patriotism runs in people's veins'
Shimla is bitingly cold, but Jai Ram Thakur, 55, exudes the sort of personal warmth that defines a quintessential organisational man. Pitchforked to the chief minister’s chair in Himachal Pradesh after the BJP’s chosen CM-candidate lost the elections, Thakur has been at the helm and consequent limelight for little over two years. Over steaming hot coffee, he spoke to Editor-in-Chief Ruben Banerjee about his achievements, disappointments and all that he wishes to achieve in the remaining three years of his term.
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March 23, 2020
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Sarkar Unhappy With India As Seen From Abroad
Foreign media coverage of the recent riots in Delhi seems to have hurt the government more than the violence itself
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March 23, 2020
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Royalty Shift Ruffles The Middle Kingdom
Scindia’s apostasy is a warning: in a rudderless Congress seething with disaffection, more malcontents might follow him unless corrective measures are taken. Maybe it’s too late for that.
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March 23, 2020
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Moonwalk At Masked Ball
A well-washed world covers up, flinches from needless contact. Entire regions are quarantined, travel suspended. And the cases pile on, relentlessly....
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March 23, 2020
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Kunwar KAMUNIST
There is a reason Bihat-Masnadpur is still called ‘Little Moscow’, a throwback to the times when the USSR was a Communist beacon and this village a hotbed of the Left movement in Bihar. It is the birthplace of comrade Chandrashekhar Singh (1915-76), the torchbearer of Left ideology in this region and a popular CPI leader who put BihatMasnadpur on India’s political map. It is also home to Kanhaiya Kumar. The brash, tambourine-playing, azaadi-seeking young leader loved and reviled in equal measure depending on which side of the political spectrum one stands. An upholder of secularism and democratic traditions, they say. For others, an anti-national and a leader of the ‘tukde-tukde gang’ hell bent on breaking up the country (what he will gain by this, however, they won’t tell). An icon of hope; a symbol of anarchy. A towering leader in the making; an overhyped student activist. Kanhaiya Kumar is all that and more. And he is here to stay.
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March 23, 2020
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Hang Your Head In Shame
A 12-year-old girl is gangraped and murdered in Assam by nine juveniles. What’s fuelling the spurt in crime against women in the state?
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March 23, 2020
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The Socialite Moved On And Stayed On Top
Propaganda may not always match the achievements of Naveen’s two decades as CM, but the marathon itself is a lifetime award
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March 16, 2020
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Rising to the Challenge
NEHA ARORA 35, FOUNDER, PLANET ABLED
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March 16, 2020
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Tank Tracks On A Cleared Field
Faint hope flickers after the US-Taliban deal. But a Taliban offensive, with covert Pakistani help, bodes ill for India plans in Afghanistan.
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March 16, 2020
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Winds of Change sweep U.P. under CM Yogi Adityanath
In the past three years, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has brought remarkable changes in Uttar Pradesh’s affairs, touching every aspect of people's life in the state
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March 16, 2020
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Love, Longing & Broken Hearts
Violence tears apart businesses and relations built over years in Delhi’s migrant colonies
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March 16, 2020
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Designing A Growth Strategy
WHEN 22-year-old architect Gita Ramanan stepped into a meeting room one afternoon to make a presentation to 18 men seated around the table, she was asked: “When is your boss coming?”
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March 16, 2020
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The Wall, Shaken
China’s pre-eminent position in the global economy and diplomacy is jolted by the disruptive coronavirus outbreak
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March 16, 2020
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CASH FLU
As the virus spreads, economic growth stutters. But there’s a silver lining...
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March 16, 2020
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Delhi Riots - Everyone A Nero
Where were the leaders when rioters killed, burned and looted?
9 min |
March 09, 2020
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Who Fanned The Flames?
Claims, counterclaims fly as capital counts its dead... two dozen and rising
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March 09, 2020
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Tricks Of The Trade
American President’s tour didn’t yield a business deal. Will the US and India be able to resolve their differences?
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March 09, 2020
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Onus is on Women
It is by performing well that female officers can lead the armed forces to absolute gender equality
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March 09, 2020
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Old older changeth, to be the same again
Congress veterans refuse to budge from their high perch and rigid doctrine of family-first as the party ‘young’ jockey for position
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March 09, 2020
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Stand To On The Pacific
Though a great trade deal is elusive, the grand India-US CGSP has been arrived at through sedulous work over 15 years
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March 09, 2020
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Lapse of Reason
The quantum of penalty awarded to a convict often depends on judges’ perception of the crime, rather than its severity
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March 09, 2020
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Handicraft Uncrafted By Artisan Hands
How technology is altering equations between traditional skills and the market
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March 09, 2020
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GLAD TO OBLIGE, PARDNER
Trump soaks in Modi’s welcome, cuts lucrative deals for the US and hopes to score points with NRIs. India basks in the nimbus of US power.
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March 09, 2020
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BLOOD SMOKE SHARDS HATE
A walk through the scarred aftermath of a classical riot
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March 09, 2020
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The Genomic Route To Targeted Cures
Enabling a sharper understanding of Asian populations, the GenomeAsia 100K project may well shake up our medicine cabinet
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March 02, 2020
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They Must Move Mount Tai
The coronavirus outbreak casts shadow on Chinese Olympic dreams
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March 02, 2020
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How Many Acres Of Print Does A Baron Need?
TRAI called for curbs on media ownership and control by a few, demanding full disclosure of facts. Those three reports lie ignored.
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March 02, 2020
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The Media For/Against
‘Pro-government’ hogs the space, but the others too speak—and loudly
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