2020-02-28 20:39
Piyasree Dasgupta
Screenshot from YouTubeTaapsee Pannu in Thappad.
Will it be too dramatic if we said Thappad is a slap on face of the rubbish Kabir Singh tried to pass off as… Read More
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2020-02-28 20:30
TOI EditAlarmed by the recent riots in Delhi that have claimed the lives of at least 42 people, multiple international agencies and opinion makers have expressed concern and criticism. B… Read More
2020-02-28 20:30
Speaking Tree
By M Rajaque Rahman
We live in strange times. Solemn chants like Jai Shri Ram or Allahu Akbar are being chanted not to invoke solemnity and piousness, but to spread parano… Read More
2020-02-28 20:08
Harsimran Gill
Courtesy David GodwinDavid Godwin is the agent Indian authors go to when they’re looking to crack the international market.
When I met David Godwin on a c… Read More
2020-02-28 17:33
Anindya ChattopadhyayMore than 3,000 houses lie abandoned, hundreds have been ransacked. The untended shops and factories of the deserted Shiv Vihar were being looted even when TOI visit… Read More
2020-02-28 16:47
Ajit Varwandkar
Why can’t we take examinations peacefully?
The school examinations for various education boards like CBSE / ICSE have begun, and I see many students already gettin… Read More
2020-02-28 15:24
HindustanTimes
India celebrates National Science Day every year on February 28. The day marks the discovery of the Raman Effect by the Indian physicist, CV Raman. He was the first Asian… Read More
2020-02-28 15:09
Rudroneel Ghosh
In a historic development, the Scottish parliament has approved plans to make sanitary products freely available to all women – the first nation in the world to do… Read More
2020-02-28 15:04
Dhiraj Mittal
There is this unique set of investors, who will believe much of everything that they come across relating to investments. Its not that these are not intelligent people, it… Read More
2020-02-28 14:25
Anna Turns
PENZANCE, ENGLAND – As waves crash against the art deco wall of Jubilee Pool in the one of the country’s most westerly coastal towns, Sam Dean is talking ab… Read More
2020-02-28 10:02
Betwa Sharma
Betwa Sharma/HuffPost IndiaMohinder Singh transported his Muslim neighbours to safety in one of the worst-hit neighbourhoods in the Delhi Riots.
NEW DELHI &mdas… Read More
2020-02-28 09:30
Rachna Khaira
HuffPost India MLAs of AAP Punjab wearing masks at the Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Friday. Taking a jibe at Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh for… Read More
2020-02-28 08:59
Lee Moran
The New Yorker takes a sarcastic swipe at President Donald Trump over the way his administration is tackling the coronavirus outbreak with its latest cover.
Trump screams… Read More
2020-02-28 08:44
Quick Edit
The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) is disrupting the global economy like no other calamity in recent years. With fresh cases being reported from other count… Read More
2020-02-28 08:28
Devjyot Ghoshal, Zeba Siddiqui, Aftab Ahmed / Reuters
Hindustan Times via Getty ImagesResidents look on as police and paramilitary personnel conduct a patrol in the are… Read More
2020-02-28 08:18
HindustanTimes
Two-thirds of the world’s most polluted cities are in India, and Delhi has the worst air among all capitals, the 2019 World Air Quality Report by IQAir AirVisual, wh… Read More
2020-02-28 07:57
Sethuraman N R / Reuters
INDRANIL MUKHERJEE via Getty ImagesRepresentative image.
BENGALURU — Indian shares tumbled 3% on Friday, on track for their worst… Read More
2020-02-28 06:06
Josie Harvey
Imagine getting a string of texts from your friends about your ex ― and how he’s been tagged by the paparazzi as Lady Gaga’s new “mystery man.&rdqu… Read More
2020-02-28 05:35
Meryl Sebastian
Kerala PoliceDevanada, missing since Thursday, found dead in a river in Kollam on Friday.
Divers found the body of a six-year-old girl, who had been m… Read More
2020-02-28 05:30
Sunil Jain
That the problem got aggravated with the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is clear; whether rightly or wrongly is the question. (Reuters image)
Ascertaining who was responsib… Read More
2020-02-27 20:30
TOI Edit
That national security adviser Ajit Doval – whose brief is geopolitical issues and tackling external security threats – had to fill in the breach on domestic peacek… Read More
2020-02-27 18:06
HindustanTimes
The visit of the United States (US) President Donald Trump will be remembered for its extravaganza apart from the ostensible chemistry between the two leaders. The visit a… Read More
2020-02-27 16:35
Meryl Sebastian
TwitterTahir Hussain
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain on Thursday vehemently denied any involvement in the death of Intelligence Bureau employee… Read More
2020-02-27 16:23
Samir Shukla
For years, India has been a playground for internationally trained economists who have been experimenting with our poor.
Unfortunately, our economists were mostly trained a… Read More
2020-02-27 15:11
Rudroneel Ghosh
The first time I came to know about Peru I was a young lad in school and my father had bought me a few volumes of Tintin comics. One of those volumes was ‘Prisoner… Read More
2020-02-27 12:58
Meryl Sebastian
TwitterTahir Hussain
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain on Thursday vehemently denied any involvement in the death of Intelligence Bureau employee… Read More
2020-02-27 11:25
David Stanway and Josh Smith / Reuters
SHANGHAI/SEOUL — The number of new coronavirus infections inside China – the source of the outbreak – was for the first time ove… Read More
2020-02-27 11:11
Sunil Jain
According to the latest Economic Survey, India’s exports-to-GDP ratio fell from 16.8% in FY12 to just 11.3% in the first half of FY20 while imports of non-oil and non… Read More
2020-02-27 11:00
HindustanTimes
Justice Sujata Manohar, the second woman judge to be elevated to the Supreme Court of India, had an amusing anecdote to recount at the 5th edition of the Difficult Dialogu… Read More
2020-02-27 10:54
Akshay Deshmane
HuffPost India Kamal Phool shows a photo of Veer Bhan on his phone.
The family of a 48-year-old factory worker who was killed in the Delhi riots had t… Read More
2020-02-27 08:37
Meryl Sebastian
ScreenshotSeth Meyers on Modi and Trump
In the latest addition to American late night show hosts lampooning the US President’s visit to India, N… Read More
2020-02-27 08:08
The Financial Express
PM2.5 is a major concern since it accounts for nearly a third of the deaths globally from lung cancer, almost a quarter of the deaths from stroke, and 43% of all… Read More
2020-02-27 08:06
Akshita Jain
TOLGA AKMEN via Getty ImagesPink Floyd’s Roger Waters speaks after a march in support of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London on February 22, 2… Read More
2020-02-27 07:35
Akshita Jain
Delhi High Court Judge Justice S Muralidhar, who on Wednesday pulled up the Delhi Police over the violence in Northeast Delhi, has been transferred to the Punjab and Haryan… Read More
2020-02-27 07:06
Nirvikar Singh
The Economic Survey innovates with its focus on trust, though one must acknowledge that former chief economic adviser Kaushik Basu has been writing about the importance… Read More
2020-02-27 06:37
Jug Suraiya
The Goods and Services Tax (GST), described by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a `Good and simple tax’ may indeed be good but it seems it isn’t particularly simp… Read More
2020-02-27 06:33
Meryl Sebastian
RAFEEQUE THOTTUMUKKAMJolly Joseph
Jolly Joseph, the main accused in Kerala’s Koodathayi serial murders, was rushed to the hospital on Thursday a… Read More
2020-02-27 06:04
Vadhavan Port has a significant potential to serve the vast hinterland with its huge cargo generating potential. (Representative image)
By Mansukh Mandaviya
Seaports are gateways of int… Read More
2020-02-27 05:03
A similar scheme under the banner Kar Vivad Samadhan Scheme was launched for direct taxes, but didn’t find many takers.
By Samir Kanabar
Mediation or resolution, with a win-win si… Read More
2020-02-27 05:03
Neha Sharma
As the universal fact stands, anything that lives is sure to die. It can happen in many different ways though. When it comes to human beings, there are uncountable ways to h… Read More
2020-02-26 18:19
Shuchi Bansal
When Air Force One touched down at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on 24 February, President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, the president&rsq… Read More
2020-02-26 17:53
Sayan Basak
The advancement in globalization, along with the need for sustainable support, has accelerated the quest to drive green logistics. The expansion of the companies in this mod… Read More
2020-02-26 17:43
Arun Ram
Much has been written and spoken about how the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, coupled with the National Register of Citizens (NRC), can be a tool of discrimination in the han… Read More
2020-02-26 17:40
Pritish Nandy
Indian men have always claimed to know what women want. A new Supreme Court judgment and the RSS chief’s comments on divorce will, hopefully, force them to do a quic… Read More
2020-02-26 14:31
Meryl Sebastian
Two Union ministers addressed the media and the Prime Minister tweeted on Wednesday on the riots in northeast Delhi and we are still none the wiser as to why our elected… Read More
2020-02-26 13:48
Tax deductions and tax incentives make up the difference between the statutory CT rate and the ETR.
By TV Mohandas Pai and S Krishnan
India’s Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman… Read More
2020-02-26 13:42
HindustanTimes
War and sex have been pivotal drivers of consumer tech in the past. Satellite navigation, penicillin, microwave ovens and superglue, all trace their origins to battlefield… Read More
2020-02-26 13:29
Akshay Deshmane
Ashfaq Hussain at his wedding.
A young electrician who had got married just 11 days ago is among the 22 people who have died so far in the Delhi riots… Read More
2020-02-26 13:12
Rudroneel Ghosh
Participating at the 6th session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, the North African nation of Morocco reaffirmed its… Read More
2020-02-26 13:09
Sanjiv Shankaran
An article in The Economic Times by Saloni Shukla examines the pros and cons of Reserve Bank of India’s tactic of using regulatory forbearance to cope with the fa… Read More
2020-02-26 07:36
Meryl Sebastian
SAJJAD HUSSAIN via Getty ImagesA burnt-out vehicle is pictured following riots in New Delhi, on February 26, 2020.
As the Supreme Court on Wedne… Read More
2020-02-26 07:17
Quick Edit
Amulya Patnaik’s dismal tenure as Delhi police commissioner could be over by this month end. But the problems he leaves behind for the capital city’s police force… Read More
2020-02-26 06:36
HindustanTimes
As Donald Trump left India after his maiden visit as United States (US) president, what are we to make of the two-day spectacle? His trip was only the eighth by a serving… Read More
2020-02-26 06:20
Bindu Krishnan
All over the world, activists pick on topical important issues and find ways to rally more people around their view. Many revolutions have been started by these activists… Read More
2020-02-26 05:42
US President Donald Trump was at his candid best as he met top Indian CEOs, largely representing companies that have invested in the US and created jobs. In a half-hour interaction, Trum… Read More
2020-02-26 05:01
Meryl Sebastian
ScreenshotTrevor Noah’s segment on Trump’s India visit.
American late night shows hosts may be having fun with US president Donald Trump’s vi… Read More
2020-02-26 04:30
Akshita Jain
During his first official visit to India, US President Donald Trump addressed the “Namaste Trump” event at Motera stadium in Ahmedabad, toured the Taj Mahal in… Read More
2020-02-26 03:59
Akshay Deshmane
Hindustan Times via Getty ImagesFile photo of women during a protest against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National P… Read More
2020-02-26 03:28
Nehmat Kaur
Violence continued to engulf northeast Delhi for the third day straight on 25 February 2020 even as US President Donald Trump continued his visit to the national capital wit… Read More
2020-02-25 17:07
Betwa Sharma
NEW DELHI — “Run,” said Sanjay, a Hindu man in his mid-thirties, who identifies as a “pro-CAA” protestor and requested his last name not appea… Read More
2020-02-25 16:23
HindustanTimes
Many people have to take responsibility for the lawlessness witnessed in parts of Delhi over the past four days — itself the result of what’s gone on in the ci… Read More
2020-02-25 15:56
Chethan Kumar
The term Homo Sapien means “Wise Man” in Latin, the language from which we’ve borrowed it. It also means human being. And Homogeneous, also a combination… Read More
2020-02-25 15:33
Abhishek Mishra
Lucknow was witness to the entire global defence ecosystem descending on the culturally-rich city. India has grown in stature globally as a military equipment manufactur… Read More
2020-02-25 14:59
Lee Moran
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta again traded verbal blows with President Donald Trump during a news conference in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The f… Read More
2020-02-25 14:31
Rudroneel Ghosh
As US President Donald Trump wraps up his visit to India, it’s time to take stock of the two-day soiree. First, notwithstanding the grand reception for Trump, the… Read More
2020-02-25 13:22
RBI has revered the discipline in recent years of using the option of adjusting the cash reserve ratio (CRR) mainly in case of a crisis.
By Rajeev Malik
A crucial reform with the potent… Read More
2020-02-25 12:53
Sanjiv Shankaran
The press conference in New Delhi addressed by US President Donald Trump, which is still in progress as this blog is being written, makes it clear that a trade de… Read More
2020-02-25 12:21
Renuka Bisht
Sentencing of the formerly super powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in his New York sexual assault trial will take place on March 11, but he faces up to 25 years… Read More
2020-02-25 12:21
Jamal Mecklai
It is, perhaps, significant that the long rally in US equities since the taper tantrum in 2015 was interrupted only when Trump began braying about a trade war with China… Read More
2020-02-25 03:12
BusinessLine
When you’re trying to solve a problem, it helps to take inspiration from your peers. The Reserve Bank of India, too, is not averse to taking cues from other central ba… Read More
2020-02-25 02:59
Nina Golgowski
The World Health Organization on Monday declined to declare the new coronavirus a global pandemic but urged all countries to prepare for one.
“We must focus on con… Read More
2020-02-25 02:28
Devjyot Ghoshal / Reuters
Danish Siddiqui / ReutersPeople supporting a new citizenship law and those opposing the law, clash during a protest in New Delhi India, February 24, 2… Read More
2020-02-25 02:09
HindustanTimes
Between 1975 and 1977, the Emergency strengthened laws such as the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA), which gave the State apparatus the right to arrest and deta… Read More
2020-02-24 20:30
TOI Edit
A positive spin-off of the increasing digitalisation of human activity is an explosion in digital payments. An RBI appointed committee on the subject chaired by Nandan Nilekani… Read More
2020-02-24 20:30
Sreeram Sundar Chaulia
Before landing in Ahmedabad for the mega ‘Namaste Trump’ spectacle, US President Donald Trump tweeted in Hindi that he was eager to arrive and connect… Read More
2020-02-24 20:30
TOI Edit
There are clear parallels between the ‘Howdy, Modi!’ event in Houston last year, staged at the NRG stadium that plays host most often to National Football League (N… Read More
2020-02-24 20:30
Arnab Ray
There is a school of thought that says that TV news anchors need to, like the word anchor implies, be steady, immune to the waves of emotion and passion, and calmly and dispas… Read More
2020-02-24 15:38
Sandhya Gugnani
Women with PCOS (Polycystic ovary syndrome) have multiple cysts in their ovaries, leading to irregular periods or heavy flow during periods or no menstruation.
Common Sy… Read More
2020-02-24 14:24
Purushottam Jha
Political parties and Political leaders are perhaps not aware that they are the prominent influencers of individual behavior shaping the ethos of social fabric. The poli… Read More
2020-02-24 13:53
Sunil Jain
Given the 1.7% fall in India’s April-January exports—this means exports grew a mere 0.5% per annum in the six years since Narendra Modi came to power — Un… Read More
2020-02-24 13:27
Ja’han Jones
Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been exploiting prison labour to make calls on behalf of his campaign, The Inte… Read More
2020-02-24 13:11
Sanjiv Shankaran
New Zealand, according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, is the least corrupt country in the world. Therefore, when the country’s… Read More
2020-02-24 12:56
Josie Harvey
Quaden Bayles went from having the “worst day of his life to the best day of his life” when he led an Australian national All-Star rugby league team onto the fi… Read More
2020-02-24 12:52
Uttam Gupta
AK has literally mesmerised Delhi voters by promising free/heavily subsidised electricity—24×7—and free water.
In the just concluded elections in Delhi, t… Read More
2020-02-24 12:39
Renuka BishtThank you sincerely Trumpji. All those of us who love the Taj Mahal cannot thank you enough. Thanks to Trumpji, the Taj has gotten a world class cleaning and it’s shini… Read More
2020-02-24 12:21
Akshita Jain
Hindustan Times via Getty ImagesA police personnel addresses the crowd in the presence of BJP leader Kapil Mishra, at Maujpur, on Sunday in New Delhi.
Violence er… Read More
2020-02-24 11:55
HindustanTimes
On February 6, political scientists Devesh Kapur and Neelanjan Sircar wrote in these pages with a warning. They suggested that controversy around the Citizenship (Amendme… Read More
2020-02-21 19:51
HindustanTimes
Over the past few days, two incidents have come to light, which highlight the dangers of minority extremism. Waris Pathan, a leader of the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Mus… Read More
2020-02-21 17:02
Nandita Sengupta
Mediation by its very nature needs representatives identified who the mediators can engage with. Yet, in this very rare of mediations at Shaheen Bagh that two senior Su… Read More
2020-02-21 16:32
Ajit Varwandkar
A fascinating experiment was conducted by Latane and Durley long back in 1968 on a psychological concept called Pluralistic Ignorance. This study is relevant even today… Read More
2020-02-21 15:21
Niranjan Marjani
US President Donald Trump is visiting India on 24 and 25 February. This two-day visit is appearing high on excitement but uncertain in terms of expectations. For Trump… Read More
2020-02-21 14:40
This new law proposed for the levy of a GST compensation cess on certain goods, the receipts of which would be credited into a GST Compensation Fund.
By Rajat Bose & Atulya Kis… Read More
2020-02-21 14:02
Purushottam Jha
There are visible cracks appearing in Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) govt in Maharashtra and Uddhhav Thackeray is busy healing it while sharpening his political acumenship. Fri… Read More
2020-02-21 13:57
Rudroneel Ghosh
Today is International Mother Language Day that has its roots in the Bengali Language Movement in what was then East Pakistan and later Bangladesh. Just after partition… Read More
2020-02-21 13:48
Chethan Kumar
There was shock, panic, an adverse reaction. No logic. No patience. Soon as Amulya — meaning “Priceless” — uttered the words Pakistan Zindabad, it… Read More
2020-02-21 13:39
Each year, about 60 million tonnes of new fibers are used to make garments, and no plausible concept exists on what to do with them when they are no longer needed. (Representative image… Read More
2020-02-21 13:18
Daniel Welsh
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has spoken about her “really challenging” work on the upcoming James Bond film, No Time To Die.
The Fleabag and Killing Eve creator served… Read More
2020-02-21 07:51
(From left) Pablo Erat, co-founding partner, and Ron Pal, chairman and founding partner of Pioneering Ventures
Bhagubhai Patel stands tall, hands on his hips, in the shade cast… Read More
2020-02-21 07:37
Nick Visser
President Donald Trump complained during a rambling rally in Colorado Springs about the South Korean blockbuster “Parasite” winning the Academy Award for Best Pi… Read More
2020-02-21 07:33
Akhilesh Tilotia
The changes in the probabilities or in the structure of the labour force are dependent on how the economy shapes up.
As India changed and economically progressed, it b… Read More
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