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January 18, 2016 00:00 IST

New crop insurance scheme is welcome. Its litmus test: Whether crop-damage assessment can be done within two weeks of the extreme weather event and compensation paid a week after that

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January 18, 2016 00:00 IST

Make it creative, encourage risk-taking and expand the idea of success

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January 17, 2016 00:20 IST

The most worrying failure of Modi’s first two years as PM has been the absence of job creation. So possibly, the most important thing he can do this year is find out why more jobs are not being created.

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January 17, 2016 00:15 IST

BJP government has faced an unprecedented Opposition for reasons which are well known. The Prime Minister has to show that much has been done and more will be done.

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January 17, 2016 00:10 IST

Ms Haley is Indian-American, and Christian, and a political star.

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January 17, 2016 00:05 IST

Justice R M Lodha in his report suggesting reforms for the BCCI, recommended that ministers and government servants be kept out of the administration of the sports body.

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January 17, 2016 06:34 IST

While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy with Pakistan could be.

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January 16, 2016 00:38 IST

One view has been that the local police should have reacted faster and, at any rate, must improve their capacity to meet such an attack in future.

January 16, 2016 08:31 IST

That is, one could either lose every rupee invested or gain multiples of it. One of the recipients of our money was a venture-capital fund that also counts Iconiq Capital as a co-investor.

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January 16, 2016 00:38 IST

The Israeli media had welcomed her appointment in 2014, citing her successful tenure as the chairperson of the Indo-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2006-09.

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January 15, 2016 00:56 IST

Going by the statements in Parliament and before the media, the Indian commerce minister seemed satisfied with the outcome.

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January 15, 2016 00:57 IST

To calm its allies, the US stepped up its presence, while Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made significant strides in building strategic partnerships with the Philippines and Vietnam.

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January 15, 2016 00:56 IST

He entertained India for 15 years, none of it rejected by his Pakistani fans, and became a Bollywood success like many Muslim stars there.

January 14, 2016 00:07 IST

That the assailant’s husband recorded the incident on CCTV, and allowed it to be shared with the entire world via the internet and television, perhaps deserves sociological analysis.

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January 14, 2016 00:06 IST

The ministry of labour is to require all establishments with 30 women workers or 50 total workers to provide crèche facilities for their employees, either at the premises or within half a kilometre.

January 14, 2016 00:06 IST

This practice is now defined as a crime against humanity. Its techniques of violence persist in recent and ongoing wars such as in Bosnia and Nigeria.

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January 13, 2016 00:13 IST

Mudra is a redesign of policy in order to re-target the audience, restructure processes and, most importantly, rejuvenate the mission of lending to the small, poor budding entrepreneur.

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January 13, 2016 06:16 IST

Perhaps 2016, hopefully, will see the beginning of a redress of the problems faced by museums and other stakeholders of culture.

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January 12, 2016 11:36 IST

Post-Pathankot, Washington must remember India-Pak ties improve when it refuses to intercede

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January 12, 2016 00:35 IST

Why Hindutva must not be allowed to define Hinduism

The writer is senior research fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, Paris, professor of Indian politics and sociology at King’s India Institute, London, and non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
January 12, 2016 11:21 IST

Akhand Bharat is a mainstay of Hindu nationalism — because land plays a key role in its ideology.

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January 11, 2016 01:10 IST

Freeing caged birds is not justice. We need to phase out bird trade

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January 11, 2016 01:00 IST

Sheikh Abdullah saw it as the best solution to the Kashmir issue, but Field Marshal Ayub Khan didn’t

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January 11, 2016 15:43 IST

At Pathankot, lessons unlearnt from 26/11, and mistakes repeated, albeit on a smaller scale

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January 9, 2016 00:02 IST

If Indian and Pakistani leaders pass this test, they can go much further

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