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Women secretariat employees protest Barasat rape incident
Kolkata, June 18 (IANS) The protest against the Barasat gangrape incident reached West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s seat of power Tuesday, as women employees of the state secretariat marched…
BJP can either promote Modi or the NDA (Comment)
Saeed Naqvi When RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat arrives in the capital Tuesday to meet L.K. Advani and other BJP leaders, the party faction floating in the clouds after Goa will…
Sow the wind in Syria, reap the whirlwind in Turkey (Comment)
Saeed Naqvi It was October 2011. I knew this would be my last evening with the distinguished Turkish journalist, Mehmet Birand, as we looked over the Bosphorus from my hotel…
Why BlackBerry Q10′s Rs.45,000 pricetag is a bad idea (Review)
BlackBerry Thursday launched the Q10 in India — the second of the two BB10 OS-based handsets that were first shown at the company’s global BB 10 event in January this…
IPL saga: India’s gladiator games
Biswajit Choudhury The nature and scale of the crisis engulfing Indian cricket, the country’s passion and also described as its only secular religion, makes one cast the mind back to…
Congress dilemma: focus on Maoist insurgency or election? (Comment)
Saeed Naqvi ‘If terrorism is uncontrolled, if leftwing extremism continues to flourish in important parts of our country which have tremendous natural resources of minerals, that will certainly affect the…
The elephant and the pumas: India and Pacific alliance (Comment)
On May 23, Colombia´s President Juan Manuel Santos took a leaf out of former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping´s book. Host to the Pacific Alliance (Alianza del Pacifico) in the salubrious…
A ‘Spring Thunder’ that keeps shaking the Indian state (Comment)
It would have remained – and forgotten — as another localised peasant-police clash had not the lanky Charu Mazumdar called it the start of a long awaited agrarian revolution, and…
UPA-II anniversary: No honest appraisal (Comment)
The celebration of the fourth anniversary of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) on May 22 was preceded by predictions in various opinion polls about a fall in its number…
Khalid Mujahid: War on terror continues to terrorize (Comment)
Good luck to the UPA as it attempts to put a positive spin on its nine years in power. But let me insert here a word of caution about the…
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