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By Harihar Swarup Before Independence, earthen pitchers containing drinking water at the Railway stations were marked Hindu water and Muslim water. I was a child at that time and amazed to see the marking. Hindus would not drink Muslim water and vice-versa. I had then wondered how can water...
By Dr. Arun Mitra Involvement of youth in the use of highly addictive killer drugs in such large numbers as is being reported is a matter of serious concern for social thinkers and concerned citizens, more so for the medical profession. A doctor is duty bound to prevent disease...
By Sushil Kutty Wolf Aaya, Wolf Aaya… But Congress President Rahul Gandhi had also promised a ‘Bhookamp’ if allowed 15-minute one-on-one with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Friday, he went on the rampage, shaking the foundations of the Modi government in a speech that rocked Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to...
By Anil Rajimwale It is more than a year since the inauguration of the GST on 1 July last year. Much has been made of this step to achieve ‘uniformity’ of tax in the country: ‘one country, one tax’ is touted as a great slogan by the BJP. There...
By Sukumar Damle It all started in 1990s with the advent of ‘Structural Adjustment’ agreed to by the then Congress government at the Centre. Sukhram, the then telecom minister, presented a Bill in Parliament, to turn the department of telecommunications into a corporate body. BJP, whose strength had gone...
TRAI has once again revamped its regulations on spam messages and pesky calls for the benefit of customers. It has asked the telcos to further ensure commercial communications are only made through registered senders. Releasing a statement Thursday the authority writes, “…a complete overhaul of the regulation had become...
By Martha Mendoza And Larry Fenn Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the United States that now reaps $1 billion annually—a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds. Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care, and other child welfare...
By Aditya Aamir Even the most careless and dated ones among us know that the world and the word have been reduced to a bunch of hashtags. But it is like the Universe. Ever-expanding. From #TalkToAMuslim to #RightToPray. It goes on and on with gay abandon though ‘gay abandon’...
By Arun Srivastava It is a strange coincidence that on a day Supreme Court ordered the Union and state governments to come up with a law against “the horrendous acts of mobocracy”, the Hindu vigilantes were busy thrashing Swami Agnivesh and making him immobile in Jharkhand’s Litipara. This was...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Although Amit Shah declared after the dinner diplomacy with Nitish Kumar in Patna last week that the two parties will fight the coming Lok Sabha election jointly and win all the 40 Lok Sabha seats, the JD(U) leaders are still not confident of getting 25...