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How will Biden deal with Iran?

The reversal of Trump's policy with regard to Iran, like the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, may not be a matter of just turning the clock back, but one of patient negotiations, with uncertain......

Be prepared for China's Electronic Warfare

'In India, China's capacities to conduct new types of warfare is critically underestimated,' says Claude Arpi. General Bipin Rawat, the chief of the army staff, recently mentioned the future of......

What Indian media can learn from US elections

Perhaps one aspect of the way modern media particularly print and news television works need some soul-searching: Their tendency to “frame” news stories as a conflict between two......

What do Goans THiNK of Tarun Tejpal?

The change of government in Goa changed THiNK’s character. Literary or intellectual luminaries were replaced by big-ticket celebrities, says Sunil Sethi In the furore over Tarun......

Dalai Lama to speak on 'art of happiness' in New Delhi

The Dalai Lama will speak on 'the art of happiness' at the fifth edition of the annual Penguin Lecture in New Delhi on Saturday. The previous speakers at the prestigious event have been journalist......

Globalisation is making way for 'slowbalisation': Birla

'While the march of globalisation is perhaps inevitable, what is certain is that the world is no longer flat as, the emerging pattern of trade is more regional. 'This new trend of......

'Great risk to nations from undermining independence of central bank'

'The Reserve Bank's independence has remained a work in progress, an enduring challenge that the nation has been grappling with on an ongoing basis,' says RBI Deputy Governor Dr Viral V Acharya.......

'Like any great leader, Modi demands performance'

'We are making a transition from governance to campaign mode.''The speed of execution is picking up,' Union Minister Jayant Sinha tells Arindam Majumder and Nivedita Mookerji.Illustration: Dominic......

Age of killer start-ups bring Bharat & India closer

Though late, India Inc has now started recognising the disruptionAmerican author Thomas Friedman had famously said “Facebook didn't exist, Twitter was still a sound, the cloud was......

Hail the invisible hand of the State

Neither pharma nor IT would have become the stars of the economy without the active but largely invisible hand of the Indian State, says Ajit Balakrishnan. The current debate in India about how to......

007 will come early to India

Once upon a time, long, long ago, decades before Thomas Friedman wrote the The World Is Flat, only the choicest Hollywood's hits trickled into the Indian subcontinent, usually months after the......

If a film's set in India, you'll spot a cow!

I don't know if it's sacred, but it's a cow alright. I call the game cow-spotting. These days, if it's a film set in India, sooner or later you'll find the cow. Cows holding up traffic are......

Brother Bear, an idealistic quest

Though not as entertaining, inventive or colourful as some of the recent Disney animated films like Lilo & Stitch, Brother Bear has ample attraction for children between four and ten years, as seen......

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