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Has Modi run out of gas?

Other strong men have stopped Modi and his hordes in states before, but none of them with a footprint or battle cry to shake up New Delhi, observes Saisuresh Sivaswamy. IMAGE: Narendra Damodardas......

Judicial reforms are an idea whose time has come

Indira Jaising, distinguished Supreme Court senior lawyer and well-known human rights activist, has been appointed Additional Solicitor General, the first woman to become a law officer in the......

Doping, truth and the media

One of the greatest realities today is that what appears as truth, is often untrue, or at best half true; and what people think as untrue, or not politically correct, is often much nearer to the......

Why India has failed to deal with bad loans

The problem of stressed assets needs to be addressed with effective recovery, says Somasekhar Sundaresan. The banking sector in India is reeling under the stress of stressed......

FM hits out at misuse of regional SEs

Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday sounded alarm bells in the market when he said regional stock exchanges and sub-brokers were being "used and manipulated by unscrupulous elements"."I have......

Look, Who Modi Met

Both have humble career origins -- one says he sold tea in his native Gujarat; the other was a bus conductor in Bangalore for some years. They are born in the same year (the shorter man in......

Reader Reviews: Avengers: Endgame gave me goosebumps!

'Does Avengers: Endgame close satisfactorily?''Does it beat that gold standard of superhero movies, which Mr Nolan gave us nearly seven years ago?''After watching on an IMAX screen at a midnight......

PIX: 2012 Films That Deserved MORE Love Than They Got

As is the case with most films in India, the big budget projects -- star vehicles to be precise -- eclipse more deserving indie films that are made with a lot of honesty and respect for the craft.......

Readers Pick: Indian Films That REALLY Deserve Oscar Entry

Barfi!'s selection as India's official entry to the Oscars sparked debates on whether it was the wisest choice the selection committee had made. While cinephiles discussed films that deserved the......

Review: Fire In Babylon is explosive stuff

Fire In Babylon is a riveting documentary, writes Raja SenIt was in 1976 that England's charismatic cricket captain stupidly and suicidally claimed that their team would make the West Indies......

IPL: Is it a bird, is it a plane...

With each passing year, the standard of cricket has risen in the Indian Premier League. The scores have gotten bigger and the bowling has been of the highest standards. But it is the fielding that......

'England and India are the two favourites for World Cup'

'Yes, all of us badly want to win a World Cup but for me as a captain, it is very important to make sure that players don’t try to be supermen to win.' IMAGE: India's players celebrate a......