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Pramod Navalkar (Screengrab courtesy: pad.ma)

On the contrary: Pramsey, Hello! The importance of being Pramod!

Cynics dismissed his true confessions piece as a me-too gimmick.

25 Nov 2018 8:16 AM IST

The proposal of BBMP to raise property taxes by 25% to help improve its revenues is unwarranted.

Increase tax base, don't punish honest taxpayers

There is a basic problem in the way the Revenue department of BBMP is set up.

25 Nov 2018 7:46 AM IST

V.S. Naipaul (Photo: AFP)

Ram temple sentiment is hate, not devotion

Today the political parties and the mass media can say things, reckless things, which they perhaps hesitated from saying...

25 Nov 2018 3:18 AM IST

Over 30 per cent of posts of chief information commissioners and information commissioners are lying vacant across the country.

Dilli Ka Babu: Information gap

The process to fill up the vacancies kick-started in the middle of the year but the appointments are yet to be made.

25 Nov 2018 3:13 AM IST

Syed Naeem Akhtar Andrabi

The PDP, NC and Congress agenda was to protect J&K's special status'

There are apprehensions about Article 35A and other litigation regarding Article 370, says Naeem Akhtar.

25 Nov 2018 3:06 AM IST

May's exit looms: No takers for Brexit deal

Britain's vote in 1972 to join the European Union was an act of accommodation to the reality of the world as it was.

24 Nov 2018 7:11 AM IST

A growing consensus among philosophers and cognitive scientists defines wise judgement to include the ability to recognise the limits of ones knowledge. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Knowledge and education

The result of knowledge is the elimination of falsehood declared Adi Shankarcharya.

24 Nov 2018 7:02 AM IST

Some of the Sikhs had blamed militant group Taliban for carrying out routing killings of the minority group. (Photo: Pixabay/Representational)

Mystic Mantra: Guru Nanak and truthful living

Guru Nanak never gave sermons and never asked the people to believe anything blindly.

23 Nov 2018 7:13 AM IST

US has demanded answers from Saudi Arabia over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Photo: File/AP)

A new Mideast game: Trump & MBS vs The Rest

President Donald Trump is punctilious in following his dictum: if its findings do not suit him, the CIA is wrong.

23 Nov 2018 7:08 AM IST

Majority of the arrested accused told the police that they took to crime because they did not have a stable job. It was also found that they were influenced by others with criminal background in their localities. (Representional Image)

Decision to set free three lifers wobbly

It is a constitutional power the Governor exercises. He has the aid and advice of the Cabinet of the State Government.

23 Nov 2018 3:09 AM IST

One might have chosen money, big house, career as the mode or medium to be happy, but if that does not give happiness then acquiring all that goes waste. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Amateur vs professional

If you function as a professional, your life is ugly. If you are an amateur it is okay, but if you are a volunteer in...

22 Nov 2018 8:03 AM IST

The air pollution is high due to lower temperatures, wind speed and higher relative humidity.

How India Inc can help unmask our cities, make the air cleaner

One of the contributors of air pollution in Delhi-NCR, especially at this time of the year, is stubble burning in the...

22 Nov 2018 7:56 AM IST