The Delhi government and the Union government are playing a blame game over Metro expansion. To stop the daily bickering, Kejriwal demands full statehood for Delhi, not for the first Time This is a new chapter of an old story. If something bad happens in Delhi, the multiplicity of agencies that run the Capital — […]

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Modi government has set up a committee for the regularisation of 1,797 unauthorised colonies. The move has been termed a political gimmick by Opposition The season of raking up old issues and making new promises has begun, after all the General Election is around the corner. The news of the regularisation of unauthorised colonies is […]

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It’s not just tycoons and celebrities who drive luxury cars — the upper middle class is buying second-hand vehicles as if to the manor born The middle class in India is driven by aspirations, not ideology. Big cars are regarded as symbols of wellbeing, the bigger the better. A car is not merely a mode […]

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Many women want to charter their own life without the support of men. It’s not limiting but liberating Single in the city, more than 50 years of age — some may be tempted to think she’s in a deplorable condition. That’s not true for so many women. Byron Katie, an American writer who teaches a […]

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The powerful women in politics are not immune to sexism — Priyanka Gandhi and Smriti Irani seem to be the pet targets There are glaring contradictions in the narrative of those who claim to be torch-bearers of liberal ideas. One of the aspects of liberal discourse is to deal with issues without getting personal about […]

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Women who have fought their battles and arrived in life, refrain from judging and excluding people, come together to celebrate life The biggest personal battle we fight is to acknowledge ourselves as we are, and not pretend to be who we aren’t for social consumption. Coming out may therefore be traumatic as well as an […]

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It’s not an exception but a trend: inebriated rich brats drive their expensive luxury car rashly, and often end up killing people. Most cases go unreported Two weeks ago, 51-year-old Turkmenistan national Gulshat Alijanova was killed, three others were critically injured when a speeding Bentley car banged an auto-rickshaw she was travelling in. The speeding […]

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Our prisons have become dens from which criminals run their drug and extortion cartels as Jail authorities look the other way Ordinary citizens presume that those held behind bars are isolated from the world of crime. But that seems to be the case only on paper. Criminals inside the jail find innovative ways, pay hefty […]

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