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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing at the launch of a new mobile app BHIM to encourage e-transactions during the Digital Mela at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Digital India: Avoid hitting icebergs

Media reports indicate that over 97 per cent of the demonetised money has been deposited in banks.

14 Jan 2017 1:33 AM IST

SOAS, University of London (Photo: soas.ac.uk)

Can we decolonise' our minds?

SOAS has in the ensuing centuries, specially after the actual independence of the countries of the empire.

14 Jan 2017 1:26 AM IST

Sir Bradley Wiggins inspired me to give up cycling

Wake up India, focus on the basics

Madhya Pradesh reported India's highest IMR with 50 infant deaths per 1,000 live births.

12 Jan 2017 2:20 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and newly unanimously elected partys national president Akhilesh Yadav addresses as SP general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav looks on during Samajwadi party national convention in Lucknow on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

Waiting for March 11

If the BSP loses its second successive Assembly election, then it may well face an existential crisis.

12 Jan 2017 1:22 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi releasing the Coffee Table book 20 Mission Driven Social Impact Innovations at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD-2017) Exhibition Center in Bengaluru, Karnataka. (Photo: PTI)

Tap the resources of our diaspora

This influx of money is both a cause and an effect of the economic transformation that India is currently undergoing.

10 Jan 2017 1:03 AM IST

Hes considering his position as leader

Of Shakespeare, Queen & honours

Keeping to the royal theme, a scholar has discovered that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet later than people had thought.

9 Jan 2017 1:35 AM IST

Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal with former Army chief - Gen (retd) J J Singh as the partys candidate from Patiala (Urban) assembly constituency and others during a press conference in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: Jammu dominates J&K bureaucracy

The government's initial list contained an overwhelming number of state service cops, which the EC strongly objected to.

8 Jan 2017 3:32 AM IST

The UK spends Rs 9.3 lakh crore per year on the NHS, which is about Rs 1.5 lakh per citizen. (Representational image)

What makes UK a civilised nation

The NHS is free for all citizens and, apparently, it is free for emergency and accident services also for all, including...

8 Jan 2017 3:13 AM IST

This 2015 photo provided by RR Auction shows Mario Puzos 1965 Olympia typewriter with manuscripts and versions of both Godfather I and II screenplays. (Photo: AP)

Does a writer's opinion matter?

Writers would treat themselves as the uncrowned legislators of the world.

7 Jan 2017 1:19 AM IST

David Hale (Photo: AP/File)

Getting ready for future with no foreign aid

As money for women focused and gender equity programmes dries up, there is a grave risk for Pakistan's NGO sector.

7 Jan 2017 12:42 AM IST

Modis grip unlikely to loosen in 2017

Modi's grip unlikely to loosen in 2017

Are we a totally different people today than we were in the 1960s?

1 Jan 2017 3:54 AM IST

Dilli Ka Babu: High stakes race

Dilli Ka Babu: High stakes race

The list of 11 new joint secretaries appointed recently only deepen this viewpoint.

1 Jan 2017 3:44 AM IST