But the police campaign aimed at ensuring safety of women, especially young girls, was reportedly marked by some stray cases of harassment of innocent youths amid concerns that it could spawn moral policing.
Three years after the prime minister's election promise that his government would create 10 million jobs, the emerging picture is not pretty. Employment HAS TO take on a critical status in the government's agenda, says Shyamal Majumdar.
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A look at Bollywood's best cabaret performers over the years! Who is 'YOUR' favourite?
Post the correction over the past one year, we are seeing opportunities across sectors.
'Afghanistan cannot be at peace until the Pashtuns regain their pre-eminent role in the country's governance,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Despite both parties joining hands to fight the elections, they have fielded different candidates for the polls in this region.
The Budget has stuck to annual increases in agri credit targets.
The NDA government was initially reticent about fleshing out its economic strategy for the future. But now that it has taken enough bold initiatives on the economic front it must have the confidence to tell us more about its approach going forward, says Abheek Barua.
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Images from the matches played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, in Wimbledon, London, on Monday.
The regulations have not changed significantly but there are always details that can be improved, new ways of packaging the whole. And teams will want to know who has done something different.
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If India does not wish to continually violate the WTO rules, it must also continue to push the WTO to either revisit the reference point of 1986-88 prices for calculating subsidies and pitch it at a recent period, or raise the ceiling on subsidies to enable countries like India to stay within the envisaged cap.
Dhruv Gupta explains how, as more and more young people fall prey to diabetes, organisaions get affected and how companies can contain the losses due to drop in productivity.
Mundasupatti is an entertaining rom-com, writes S Saraswathi.
Those that are developing quadricycles from scratch say it will take them at least two years to roll them out.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
Unlike some of India's largest online retailers like Flipkart, Amazon, Myntra and Jabong, which are very secretive about their data and use it to cut better deals with brands than their competitors, the Nykaa monetising its insights. If it is is able to do so without giving away any of its advantages to competitors, it could be on to a winning model.
Replace authority and hierarchy with team building and collective participation.
'When I entered the Indian team's dressing room, I discovered that there was a divide in the team, like a wall in between two groups of players, there were two teams within one.' 'It was all about individual glory and if the team won in the process great!' 'My entire Test career was about me wishing that my Indian team was more like the Pakistan team.'
'What should worry India and which needs to be expressed is Russia's simultaneous proximity to both China and Pakistan from a strategic angle. That hasn't happened ever before,' says Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
Some look good only when the going is good. If the going is tough they collapse. That appears to be the United Progressive Alliance and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi story. Faced with odds, even senior leaders have decided to desert the sinking ship. Some are refusing to contest. Others are feigning ill health for not contesting. The blame game is about to begin.
Movies, like all forms of great art, are not meant to tell us how we ought to be, but honestly document how are.
Unplanned, last-minute pricing is hurting the aviation sector, as is evident from the balance sheets of Indian carriers
'For me, success is saying 'no' when you want to say no.'
AND, W, Biba step up their game worldwide. While global brands go all out to woo India customers.
India's IT/BPO story isn't over yet, believes Ganesh Natarajan.
India's IT/BPO story isn't over yet, believes Ganesh Natarajan.
A selection of musings from around the cricket World Cup.
The astronomical fee paid for Ben Stokes at the IPL auction is a confirmation of his status as the modern game's finest all-rounder.
The girl lending the helping hand won her hearts and accolades, with Hero Cyles taking special note.
IMAGES from the Australian Open matches played at Melbourne Park on Wednesday
It's more common than majority of Indians realise.
After Brexit, ethnic minorities in Britain worry about their future.
A six-point checklist to follow when lenders reject your home loan application.
Realise there is a difference between exaggerating and plain lies
A sedentary lifestyle can strain your metabolism, where you end up burning only one calorie per minute!
R Madhavan has a flair for playing unlikeable characters well and he achieves that here too, writes Sukanya Verma.
