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The Star Gazer Stars At TIME Gala

At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......

Meet The Youngest Dalit Lady Candidate

'If people don't see you, they might be hesitant, but once they see you, they are confident that this is the person they will vote for,' says political debutant Shambhavi Choudhury, 25, alumnus of......

What's Modi Up To?

No government in the past initiated the process of policy making for its next tenure even before going in for elections. Once the Model Code of Conduct is enforced by the Election Commission,......

Anxiety Behind Modi's Banswara Speech?

In the coming days, unless Modi tones down the communal spiel, it will be clear that anxiety continues to drive his mind and clouds his judgment, observes Modi biographer Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.......

Wayanad May Not Be A Breeze For Rahul

Enquiries in Kalpetta showed that Wayanad will continue to support Rahul, but not to the same extent as in 2019, when his margin of victory had been enormous, reports Shyam G Menon. IMAGE: Rahul......

Who Fared Better On Economy? Modi Or Manmohan

Whether it was the MGNREGS or the NFSA or the Aadhaar-based DBT scheme for cash transfer, the Modi government has built on the basic architecture created by the Singh government. Policy makers in......

The Modi Premium

Economic growth, which we are taking for granted, slows for a completely different set of local or global factors and the Modi premium vanishes, observes Debashis Basu. Illustrations: Uttam......

Mining an opportunity: Firm, transparent laws key to attract investments

Parliament has cleared the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2023, recently. Photograph: Steve Marcus/Reuters The objective of the Act is to invite investments from......

'FICCI is focusing on start-ups'

'For our traditional membership base, it would be an access to disruptive ideas,' FICCI President Subhrakant Panda tells Asit Mishra/Business Standard. FICCI President Subhrakant Panda.......

Will Financial Stress Break The Global Economy?

What's different this time is that global financial stress -- which has its genesis in four policy choices made in recent years -- is juxtaposed with a more resilient real economy, observes Sajjid......

The Best Political Biopic? VOTE!

Atal Bihari Vajpayee's biopic Main Atal Hoon reveals the pitfalls of making films on political figures: The maker has to be careful not to offend any followers. It often results in bland......

'I knew my film would not have a hero or villain'

'Rakesh's life is hard, but he knows how to find joy.''He doesn't think his life's value comes from money. He sees no shame in his poverty.' IMAGE: A scene from Against The Tide. In what seems......

'Most critics don't know difference between good and bad film'

'It's time to change this system of randomly giving stars and the right to bad critics to run down our products.''Two films, even if both get three stars, are very different from each other.''I can......

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