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UK-based political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica is reported to have denied using data of Facebook users in India.

How Facebook, Google and others pose a growing threat to people...

Only one guilty organisation, Cambridge Analytica, has so far been uncovered, and it has been told to go by Facebook.

12 April 2018 7:37 AM IST

The Supreme Courts landmark ruling allowing passive euthanasia is a compassionate one.

Ethical debate on euthanasia unlikely to end

Suicide is death inflicted on oneself, unlike murder, but remains outside what is permitted by law.

28 March 2018 12:23 AM IST

The Narendra Modi Cabinets decision earlier this week to denationalise the coal industry is as historic as Indira Gandhis move to nationalise coal mining in 1973.

Will privatisation help the cause of coal industry?

The first step towards privatisation came in 1993, when coal users such as power plants and steel mills were allowed to...

27 Feb 2018 12:46 AM IST

In the case of manufacturing, this is because there is no government investment and the private sector has no money to invest.

Economic Survey glosses over the problems that lie ahead for India

The main drivers of growth manufacturing and agriculture are both in the doldrums.

1 Feb 2018 3:23 AM IST

Former Mumbai Police Commissioner turned-politician Satyapal Singh on Thursday said Delhi Police had mishandled the protest that took place after ex-servicemans suicide. (Photo: PTI)

RSS agenda: Replacing science with myths

A BJP minister has even gone as far as to claim that cow dung can absorb radioactivity.

30 Jan 2018 12:37 AM IST

In Rajasthan, in the PDS, exclusion because of fingerprint failure has been close to 36 per cent

Aadhaar: A lot of questions yet to be resolved

Everyone in a village in Uttarakhand has the same birth date on their Aadhaar cards.

12 Jan 2018 3:26 AM IST

The bottom 50 per cent group grew at a substantially lower rate than average growth since the 1980s.

As India got richer, inequality also rose

In 2015 Forbes, the magazine of business leaders, had shown that India had 102 dollar billionaires.

27 Oct 2017 1:37 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe waves at the crowd at the foundation laying ceremony of Indias first bullet train project between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, in Ahmedabad. (Photo: PTI)

Bullet trains: Far too costly for India

The interest-free loan for bullet train from Japan is of Rs 88,000 crores.

28 Sept 2017 12:49 AM IST

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (Photo: AFP)

Suu Kyi must act fast on Rohingyas' rights

Modern communication and the relative ease of travel have made the refugee crisis a worldwide phenomenon.

18 Sept 2017 2:48 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Modi faltering on the growth promise

Now we are back to trying to configure how to reindustrialise, given India's persistent economic backwardness.

23 Aug 2017 12:55 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Jobless growth rising crisis for Modi Sarkar

The government seems to work for big business, with its emphasis on reducing the influence of labour.

12 Aug 2017 12:38 AM IST

The chartered accountants had much to cheer since their practice would gain the most from the new law.

GST's fallout: Chaos & new licence raj likely?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi struck a chord that had a ready resonance with the audience.

7 July 2017 2:04 AM IST