Applying the Gujarat Model: What Modi’s budget will offer
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s first budget in the coming weeks will give some idea of the new direction Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to give the Indian economy. In all …
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Israel, Denmark offer a helping hand to clean up Ganga
The clean-up Ganga project, a long promised plan which has been mired in endless bureaucratic delays and political apathy, looks set to acquire force in days to come. India’s Prime …
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Restoring India-China Reciprocity on the Border
Under the new dispensation of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it is necessary to put the India-China border dispute in a correct perspective. Incidentally, 2014 coincides with the centenary of the McMahon line.
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25 years later, China’s 3 responses to Tiananmen: Detention, Denial and Defiance
Since March 2014, Internet search giant Google has begun to run encrypted versions of the search engine in China. Currently, nearly all its users are redirected to the encrypted version …
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Can a writer write himself away?
I remember a friend once asking me on a lazy day in a chickoo orchard, “Do you ever worry that with all the writing you do, you might write yourself …
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Cutting red tape: For green clearances, go online
While there were a plethora of green pledges on the World Environment Day, India flagged off an online platform to fast-track environmental clearances for industrial and infrastructure projects. Several important …
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World Environment Day: An Ode to Beloved Earth That Was….
Everyone had talked about what the end of the world would look like but few had imagined they would live to see it happen. The speculation was now a reality. There was no sun outside and the rain poured down relentlessly. The glaciers in the Arctic Circle were melting fast and no one could predict what will happen after the rains. Was everyone going to die?
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A thaw in Saudi-Iran relations?
Since President Rouhani’s election, Iran has made considerable effort towards ‘constructive engagement’ with the Gulf Cooperation Council. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif visited Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and the UAE soon after …
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Assad set for comeback in Syria polls, US slams elections as ‘disgrace’
Syria’s long-standing president Bashar al-Assad is poised for a victory in the just-concluded elections. The US, an arch-critic of the Syrian regime, is not impressed, and has denounced the Syrian …
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Fortress Europe? Anti-immigrant parties surge in EU polls
A strong showing by anti-immigrant and anti-EU parties in the recent elections for the European Parliament has astonished many. While French Socialist Prime Minister, Manuel Valls called it “an earthquake,” …
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