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Mumbai does not have enough amenities for half the people living in it.

Maximum city, minimum benefit

The Mumbai spirit is an excuse used by politicians time and again to rake in moolah from India's financial capital.

8 Oct 2017 2:09 AM IST

The plan to get a bullet train from Japan should be dropped entirely until we establish our own technologies.

Put the brakes on bullet train

Our ailing railway infrastructure, a victim of the ruling class' apathy, must be fixed first.

8 Oct 2017 2:04 AM IST

For over a year, India had been the fastest growing economy, second only to China. This has now changed.

Economic turnaround: The only way is up

Indian industry believes that the economy would trend upwards in the second half of the fiscal year.

1 Oct 2017 7:54 AM IST

Traders are exploring innovate ideas to beat GST norms.

I am confident that H2 2017-18 will show solid recovery'

The demonetization effects and some of the negative external developments and the effects of double drought are over.

1 Oct 2017 7:49 AM IST

An anti-Rohingya hardline Buddhist group, together with Buddhist monks, rally outside Yangons Thilawa port as the Malaysian ship carrying relief aid for Rohingya Muslim minority arrives. (Photo: AFP)

Rohingya Portent

The announcement that all Rohingya refugees would be expelled from India had the flavour of India joining the ethnic...

24 Sept 2017 2:44 AM IST

Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stretch their arms out to receive packets of biscuits thrown at them as handouts. (Photo: AP)

Refugee status, just a facade?

The comparison of Rohingyas with Pakistani and Bangladeshi Hindus is unnatural and irrational.

24 Sept 2017 2:36 AM IST

Child sexual abuse is an under-reported offence in India and has reached epidemic proportions.

Failing our children

Sexual violence amongst children is notoriously difficult to measure.

17 Sept 2017 3:39 AM IST

Without fear or favour

Without fear or favour

Conversations resounded with the idea of Gauri Lankesh as a radical and the radical as someone to be dispensed with.

11 Sept 2017 12:26 AM IST

Seven bullets were fired at senior journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh around 8 pm Tuesday, when she was about to enter her house. Three of those bullets hit her, killing her instantly. (Photo:

Cracking the case not easy

A case of this nature has its inherent constraints. The absence of streetlights poses the problem of identification of...

11 Sept 2017 12:26 AM IST

Demonstrators hold placards with the picture of journalist Gauri Lankesh during a Not In My Name protest, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Thursday (Photo: PTI)

The beast in human beings

There have been philosophies and ideologies that inspired human beings through self-suffering and sacrifice in the...

11 Sept 2017 12:24 AM IST

Gurmeet Ram Rahim was recently convicted in two rape cases registered against him. There was riot like situation in Haryana.

OMG! The Messy Messiahs

Controversial charlatans from various religious groups have thrived across India for decades.

3 Sept 2017 4:04 AM IST

Gurmeet Ram Rahim

People should speak up against rogues'

People in Sirsa know there are many cases which have not been reported.

3 Sept 2017 3:52 AM IST