EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 19.10.09
HINDUSTAN TIMES. STOP PLAYING THE SPOILSPORT; CHEQUE IT OUT; GRASP THE NETTLE; PAWAR MAY HAVE SOME ACES UP HIS SLEEVE. INDIAN EXPRESS. NEAREST CONTINENT; GLOBAL FOOTPRINTS; NO WINNERS?... However much the rise in demand for work that pays the minimum of Rs 100 per day in recent months, in response to the spreading distress on account of drought and the economic downturn, NREGS is still only a partial remedy��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 05.04.10
At a time when security forces around the country are doing their best to ensure IPL matches pass off incident free, there was no need for Lalit Modi and his men to permit drinking in the corporate boxes. More so since for the average fan, even taking a... Many BJP leaders with an RSS background follow an early to rise, early to bed mantra and they are finding it difficult to meet the party chief at an hour where they prefer to rest. ***************************************.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 02.04.11
Overall, it is a mixed report ��� surely, there are areas that need a lot more work but at the same time we, as a nation, deserve to give ourselves a pat on the back for the progress that we have made in other crucial sectors. Take a look at population growth,.. Parenthetically, Sehwag should have been given the man of the match award, because his innings was the difference between the two teams on a slow pitch taking spin. But get set to watch an intense and close��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 26.01.11
Whether it went into politicians hands is a matter of investigation which as we all know will run into millions of years and zillions of dead ends ��� by which time it will fade from public memory and the beneficiaries will enjoy the high life.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. A LISTENING POINT, NOT A BRIDGE. ASHOK MALIK. Whichever way it ends, the BJP Ekta Yatra has one clear loser: Omar Abdullah. In his political and administrative responses, his impetuous over-reaction��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 24.09.10
HINDUSTAN TIMES. COLUMN. TO NOT LAND IN TROUBLE. PRANAB BARDHAN. In the last few years in different parts of India the issue of land acquisition has become politically explosive. This isnt surprising as land, one of the few... Or from chief ministers responsible for law and order, like Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, who warned, in his characteristically high-pitched style, that enemies of the country are in search of opportunities to disturb its social fabric.
For Make in India, Modi kicks off labour reforms
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday unveiled a string of labour reforms that will make inspection of businesses transparent and also ease rules so that employees can smoothly move their social security funds when they change jobs. Rather than the.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 06.08.10
In the IPL, a single individual, Lalit Modi, has been held responsible for the corruption even as the other board and governing council members appear to have got away. In the Games too, the focus seems to be on Kalmadi��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 24.01.11
NEW ECONOMIC CHALLENGES - BY LALIT SETHI. 6.. On January 8, 2011, The Washington Post reported: US to offer more support to Pakistan; the Obama Administration will increase its military and economic aid to Pakistan... HINDUSTAN TIMES. THE PUNDIT. LOST IN TRANSITION. The doors of Noahs ark seemingly open the week before January 26 each year judging by the wildlife on the Capitals roads. As you make your way past assorted camels,��.
A brilliant explosion that faded slowly: Lalit Modis rise to fame and his.
Lalit Modis arrival in the Indian cricketing world was like the IPL catchphrase ��� a case of talent meets opportunity. With the successful execution of the 2009 IPL in South Africa, he was hailed as the new messiah of Indian cricket among a.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 14.05.11
Mr Assad, who inherited power from his father in 2000, is trying to crush an uprising that exploded nearly two months ago and is now posing the gravest threat to his familys 40-year ruling dynasty... A perfectly intelligent and creative actor as Anupam Kher (if you want to see how brilliantly talented he is, go watch his autobiographical solo act, Kuchh Bhi Ho Sakta Hai, next time he brings it to your city) was exhorting us to throw our Constitution out of the window.
10 dead in flash floods, landslides in Assam
���Water levels have been rising and much of the district is inundated. Teams from the state disaster response force and national disaster response force (NDRF) have been deployed to help those marooned. We have also sought help from the Army,��� said .
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 29.08.09
On Wednesday, Salman met IPL boss Lalit Modi triggering speculation that the movie star is keen on bidding for one of the two new IPL teams that will feature in the 2011 season. And whats more... What matters is less Israels technical ability than its fearsome reputation when it comes to national security... Daily Times carried an editorial on August 24 predicting the fallout of this new appointment: ���Hakimullah is known for his slack allegiance to any Islamic ethic.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 28.09.10
Basically, his suggestion is that Afghanistan should be divided into two parts; the Pashtun-populated south should be one country while the rest forms a separate, second state more or less at peace with itself. The idea, thereafter, is.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. COLUMN. GAMBLING WITH SCIENCE. DANIEL LYONS. The people who run Facebook are furious about a new movie that takes lots of liberties in its depiction of how Facebook came into existence. Theyre upset��.
Kanpur industrialist got wife murdered by girlfriends driver
Jyoti Dasani, whose body was recovered from her car on Monday in Kanpur, was killed by a man hired by her husband Piyush Dasani who feared she might inform her parents about his extramarital affair, the police said. Piyush had told the police that.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 30.03.11
The crux of his argument was essentially this: In Libya, the people had bravely risen against their long-time autocratic ruler but the latter resorted to horrifically violent means to subdue the popular uprising... It had to redeem its battered reputation and image. The loss.. The anti-nuclear power lobby may have acquired fresh wind as a result of the accident, which has given rise to radio-active fallout, but their continuing opposition goes against the national interest.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 04.03.10
Then came the most brilliant solo effort Ive ever seen.. A day after Indias victory, IPL tsar Lalit Modi tweeted this to my fellow columnist, Rajdeep Sardesai: I agree we could do with a hockey IPL.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. STRATEGIC RECALIBRATION. DAVID IGNATIUS. One of the problems with the US-Pakistan relationship over the decades has been that the two sides tend to fall in and out of love like a tempestuous couple, rather than maintain a��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 07.07.11
SEEMA CHISHTI; HIS VISUALS TALKED - SHUBHRA GUPTA; THE TREASURE OF TRIVANDRUM - MADHAV KHOSLA; WHEN LIVE TV WORKS ��� AND WHEN IT DOES NOT - SHAILAJA BAJPAI; A TRAP FOR MODI - MANOJCG.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. EVERYBODY, HANDS UP! More interesting than the cluster of villages that is Bhatta-Parsaul is the town of Kasganj. Both in gods own Uttar Pradesh, the former has visitors dropping by for a meal of dal, chapatis��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 14.07.11
The abrupt sacking, for that is what Mr Vishwa Ranjans abrupt removal from the State police chiefs office and his being shunted to the insignificant post of Director-General of Home Guards amounts to, cannot but rankle with senior.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. NO MORE POTTERING ON. With the second and final part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows opening in theatres across the world, we are caught up, perhaps for the last time, in the whirligig of Potter mania.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 13.04.11
But in a positive sign for India, trendlines in these key states show the force of identity politics diminishing, with people concerned more with bread-and-butter issues such as development, jobs and price rise.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. THE PUNDIT. SOME GIVE AND TAKE. The family of the former telecom minister A Raja is nothing if not consistent. Even as Raja is cooling his heels in the clink, his older brother has got himself in a spot of bother when the police nabbed��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 12.11.10
Hadnt Lord Palmerston, that hard headed Victorian statesman, reminded his peers that Britain had neither eternal friends nor enemies, only eternal interests, as profound an aphorism as any to have surmounted time?.. Construction of the residential high rise and metro mall on the river bed has also incensed conservationists, who point out that this land originally belonged to the Uttar Pradesh irrigation department.. I grew thinner, like a picture fading away.