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BJP's biggest challenge in this polls is listlessness of its own support base

The current general election, at least until phase one, has been characterised by an odd ennui and silence. This is partly reflected in the...

yesterday 30

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta

The editorial Indian Express didn't write

In its penchant for taking the moral high ground and in issuing calls to action The Indian Express has historically proven to be second to none....

yesterday 10

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Prakash Singh

Joining either NDA or INDIA may have been politically fatal for Mayawati

The politics of the Bahujan Samaj Party and Mayawati remains a mystery to many political analysts and journalists. At times, they over-simplify her...

yesterday 10

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Badri Narayan

There are major flaws in govt’s approach to tackling Naxal problem

Security forces dealt a decisive blow to the Maoists on April 14 in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh, near the Maharashtra border. A joint force of...

yesterday 10

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Prakash Singh

Israel-Iran conflict is going to loom large not just over resolution of Gaza

Six months after the October 7 attack, Israel’s war to eliminate Hamas has resulted in the near-complete destruction of Gaza and a dire...

yesterday 10

Indian Express

Anju Gupta

The foundations of what Tamil Nadu is today were laid by Kamaraj, Venkataraman and Subramaniam. And they cannot be forgotten

Kumaraswami Kamaraj served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu — Madras State, as it was then called — for nine-and-a-half years, from April 13,...

previous day 10

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R G Chandramogan

India is among the signatories to MLI, recent amendment to the India-Mauritius treaty signals keenness to plug the loophole

Tax treaties are integral to cross-border investment relations as they define the treatment of incomes that arise in one country accruing to a...

previous day 10

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Suranjali Tandon

Resentment towards costs is a big factor in the growing hostility, including violence, against healthcare workers

It’s a scary experience that you have certainly heard of. A sudden health crisis results in hospitalisation. Several tests, drugs and procedures...

previous day 20

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Sanjay Nagral

The CBI, often under scrutiny for alleged political bias, operates within a framework of independence and impartiality

In Indian politics, accusations often fly thick and fast, shaping public discourse and perceptions. One particularly persistent allegation levelled...

previous day 10

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Bijal Vachharajani

Burning fossil fuels has made us all pyromaniacs, culpable in our individual and collective way, but especially to the next generation

Whenever we run out of things to say, it’s customary to turn towards the weather to rescue us. “So hot.” “Too stuffy.” “Look, it’s...

previous day 40

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Bijal Vachharajani

Come rain or prachand bahumat, a healthy sense of self-deprecatory humour is essential for a writer

“There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who extrapolate from insufficient data” goes the popular joke. Writers of fiction, I think,...

monday 10

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Maithreyi Karnoor

It creates a fertile ground for injustice and inequality to take root and perpetuates a cycle of disenfranchisement

Every single vote is a thread that weaves together the fabric of our democratic society. However, what India faces today is voter apathy or...

monday 10

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M. Venkaiah Naidu

Those who are spelling doom for democracy in India have unwittingly reduced themselves to agents of partisan politics

Voting is now underway in the largest democratic exercise on the planet. To put the scale of the Indian electoral process into perspective it is...

monday 10

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Shashi Shekhar Vempati

Turmoil affects the security of large Indian diaspora based in Gulf region and there is additional risk of piracy and hostage-taking

Iran’s promised retaliation to the Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus came in the early hours of Sunday morning. Swarms of...

monday 10

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Sanjay Bhattacharyya

The amended rules will prolong the life of drugs on account of frivolous patenting, increase prices, make lives difficult for patients

A good health system requires a constant supply of quality affordable medicines. Medicines constitute nearly 50 per cent of the health costs...

monday 20

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Anand Grover

These “shorts” on social media about artistic process reveal that its one’s value within the attention economy that decides success

The world reacted with sympathetic bemusement to an incident in the news recently, that a museum employee in Germany slyly hung up his own painting...

21.04.2024 30

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Leher Kala

Inside Track by Coomi Kapoor: Apathetic voters

While the BJP has in a show of bravado proclaimed hyped-up numbers — 370 and ‘400 paar’ — as its projected tally, in private, it is more...

21.04.2024 30

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Coomi Kapoor

We need to recover this lost imagination of Bengaluru, to re-imagine it once again as a city of water

Once again, the summer of 2024 finds Bengaluru in the grip of an acute water crisis, accompanied by intense, relentless heat. Some estimates even...

21.04.2024 40

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Harini Nagendra

It is now abundantly clear that BJP is no longer a political party, it is the name of a cult

In last week’s column (Indian Express, Sunday, April 14, 2024), I had rued the fact that I was unable to compare the manifestos of the Congress...

21.04.2024 30

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P Chidambaram

Modi’s advent burst the bubble in which we lived, and the truth is that most of us have no idea why this happened

Many things have changed in India since Narendra Modi first became prime minister. But one change that has gone almost unnoticed is that a process...

21.04.2024 70

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Tavleen Singh

Centre has been meeting its capex targets, but trajectory of private sector and state governments is less certain

An issue that has been nagging policy makers is the revival of the investment cycle. While the central government has been meeting its target on...

20.04.2024 20

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Madan Sabnavis

It amplifies the threat of diabetes, obesity, heart disease at an early age for populations, like India’s, known to be predisposed to them

In 2006, we published a report describing a cohort of 51 children and young adults with Type 2 Diabetes — this was a surprising finding at the...

20.04.2024 20

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Dr Anoop Misra

With voting in phase 1 of India’s election completed, I wonder what our founding fathers & mothers would've made of electoral democracy that is India

India’s general elections commenced this week. This year’s elections are being held from April 19 to June 1, with results being declared on June...

20.04.2024 20

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Menaka Guruswamy

The tone and tenor of the Opposition makes it seem as though it is the ruling party’s responsibility to bring them to power

As election fever peaks, political discourse in India is becoming shriller. The Opposition makes a curious argument about the lack of a “level...

20.04.2024 7

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Ram Madhav

Open conflict between the two makes it clear that without a resolution to Palestine's statehood, there will be no peace in West Asia

In the last few weeks, Israel and Iran have crossed all the red lines in their decades-long shadow war. Israel did this on April 1 when it bombed...

20.04.2024 9

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Bernard Haykel

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