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Topic of the day:-"The heat is on: protection during summer"
Local administrations must draw up plans to address heat stress and possible water scarcity
A forecast...
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Topic of the day:-"Fatal fires: the need for strict safety norms"
Fire Safety Norms For Hospitals Need To Be Strengthened And Strictly Enforced
The devastating fire at the...
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Topic of the day:-" Air India privatisation: High hopes?"
Nine months after the Union Cabinet’s in-principle nod for offloading the government’s stake in Air India, the ball has finally...
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Topic of the day:-"Remaining Engaged"
Mr. Ghani launched the Kabul Process for Peace and Security Cooperation, and in February, made an unconditional dialogue offer to...
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Topic of the day:-"Improbable hopes"
“Style is art,” Susan Sontag said, questioning the distinction often made between style and substance, between form and content. Mr....
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Topic of the day:-"Locked down — on U.S. shutdown"
Last week, the 19th federal government shutdown in U.S. history went into force. If previous occasions are any indication,...
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Topic Of The Day:-"Slow Injustice"
The wholesale acquittal of all 10 persons arrested in connection with a blast at the Police Task Force office at Begumpet in...
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Topic of the day:-"easing Fire: On Truce In Afghanistan"
The Taliban’s announcement of a three-day ceasefire with Afghan government troops for Eid, two days after President Ashraf...
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Topic of the day:-"This Time With Feeling"
The Centre has empowered the Reserve Bank of India to get banks to take tougher steps, including insolvency...
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Topic of the day:-"Systemic crisis"
At the heart of it, the crisis in the Korean peninsula reflects an endemic and worrying disorder in the contemporary...
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Topic of the day:-"Telling stories"
A few small stories from the aftermath might illustrate what I am worried about. The first comes from a concerned...
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Topic of the day:-"Sound bite games"
They have a set of tactics up their sleeves to win, and have chosen to reinforce traditional modes of politicking, by employing new techniques...
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Topic of the day:-"Dilemmas of checkmating"
The current Indian strategies to ‘checkmate’ China seem more zero-sum and less efficient. To be sure, New Delhi has chosen to adopt...
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Topic Of The Day:-"Social Tensions"
But by far the most troubling legacy of the government has been in the...
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Topic Of The Day:-"Choice & Conversion"
The case of Akhila/Hadiya is becoming curiouser by the day. Entrusted with adjudicating whether her conversion to...
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Topic Of The Day:-"Change of guard: On Jacob Zuma’s ouster"
Jacob Zuma’s resignation as South Africa’s President brings an...
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Topic Of The Day:-"The Governor’s Options"
The Governor of Karnataka saw and may well have felt somewhat like...
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Topic Of The Day:-"Space for all"
By launching the GSAT-9 ‘South Asia satellite’, India has reaffirmed the Indian Space...
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Topic Of The Day:-"An agenda at work"
The assassination, the demolition and the portrait’s unveiling, together, go to spell...
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Topic Of The Day:-"European variation"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Germany, Spain, Russia and France brings into sharp...
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Topic Of The Day:-"The Sabarimala judgment"
Then Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justice A.M. Khanwilkar held that...
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Topic Of The Day:-"Where The Jobs Are"
News reports over the last few weeks suggest that the Central government...