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Exchange RatePatna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Wednesday won the trust vote in the assembly, proving his majority after dumping long-time ally the BJP. A total of 126 legislators voted for the motion moved by the chief minister while 24 voted against. The house has 243 members. Bharatiya Janata Party legislators walked out before the special session [...]
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Bombs aplenty, population and chemical
Sincere commentators, as opposed to pedagogic wordsmiths, have a painful task : writing about today’s India. Countless times they crib about the country’s lack of commitments and shameful corruption among bureaucracy and political class.
I am Niraadhar
I am in great company. One of the millions who toil for the ‘government’ which unabashedly wrests my earning in the form of direct and indirect taxes and yet care two hoots for me.
Not 24×7 monitoring please
Everyone knows times change but few accept it. If we did, much ills of our society would have been done away with.
Scams India Inc.
The worthies mandated to lead the country led it to a parliamentary democracy which is the most expensive form of government unsuitable for a very poor country, India, in the 40’s.
House hunting tips
House hunting is an education, an experience that gives you a rare glimpse of the unmasked faces of people. Neglect not this education, is my advice. When I came to Hyderabad a year and a half ago I underwent the exercise for the ninth time in my career. Having seen houseowners in various other states, [...]
OPINION: Am I patriot?
After two score and eight years of living as Indian I am still not sure if I am a patriot.
Help… help… help
Two years after being acquitted for their alleged involvement in the Mecca Masjid blast, several youngsters are struggling to regain some semblance of normalcy in their lives.
Believe it or not
I have often wondered if it’s a believer or an atheist who is better for Earth. And, with the amassed wisdom of several decades, I now declare it is, of course, the non believer — be it an agonistic or an atheist. Because at least he will not come after you with a hatchet like [...]
The end of privacy?
Now we have mobile tracking software. Gone are the days when the wandering man, and sometimes woman, could fool the other party saying he/she is at a far away city attending a conference while he (she) is closeted with the Woh within two kilometres.
The fallen angel
Greater the height bigger the im-pact of the fall. It’s a law of physics. Suspension of CNN host and Time columnist Fareed Zakaria for plagiarism has not surprised his critics, but to us, the practising journalists, it came as a grim reminder of today’s razzmatazz media world where information bombardment happens with dazzling speed and [...]
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