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Why psychoanalysing Modi is a waste of time

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It’s coming: A gas price hike is around the corner

Chidu’s ‘Ferrari’ of reforms has an autorickshaw engine

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Yale set to discuss the value of Higher education in Hindi

Nothing wrong in debate over RTI: Cong

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2014 Indian Grand Prix is on, assures Jaypee

Brawn needs brains to avoid tyre trouble

Sania-Liezel shocked in quarters of Aegon International

Paes-Stepanek seeded fourth at Wimbledon

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Ishrat Jahan’s mother alleges attempt to murder her

CCEA likely to clear Rajasthan highway project on Friday

Declare Uttarakhand disaster a natural calamity: Mayawati

Delhi HC stays govt order banning ads on autorickshaws

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US, Britain decides to work together to resolve Syria crisis

MF Hussain, Tyeb Mehta works fetch millions at UK auction

How Kate and Will’s royal baby may help UK economy bounce back

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Turkey’s ‘standing man’ to join ranks of icons?

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Airtel finishes 5% stake sale to Qatar firm for Rs 6,796 cr

Apollo deal: How cheap foreign loans spur India Inc’s overseas takeovers

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Nissan to launch premier SUV ‘Terrano’ in India this year

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Bernanke effect: Rupee hits new low of 59.9, could go lower

Rupee gains slightly, but flirts with record low on Fed stimulus concerns

Rupee hits 58.7 against $, will it depreciate more and surpass its record low?

When CAD is so bad, we should just ban gold imports

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Gold shoots to 5-week high; up Rs 430 on duty hike, global trend

CCEA likely to clear Rajasthan highway project on Friday

Cabinet allows merger of Centre-sponsored schemes

It’s official: US Fed may start cutting stimulus this year

Delhi’s CP is still the fifth most-expensive office area in the world

Rupee stability, easing inflation key to next rate cut: Experts

Fitch revises outlook on 10 Indian financial institutions

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It’s official: US Fed may start cutting stimulus this year

How feeder funds insulate you from rupee fall

Why diversification is at the heart of a good financial future

Insurance alert: When it comes to hospitals, size does matter

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Nifty short-term outlook looks green, HDFC rallies back

Demand zone in S&P 500 stops global bear and rescues Nifty for now

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Too much sugar is a highway to heart failure: Study

One more problem for obese teens: Hearing loss!

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Madhur Bhandarkar on break from direction

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All hail Altaf Raja, the bard of our troubled times

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  • Why India should have been prepared for Uttarakhand floods

    Why India should have been prepared for Uttarakhand floods

    But we aren’t helpless: we’ve failed because, though we’ve done our homework on how not to fail, we haven’t actually turned these lessons into practice.

  • Why the political isolation of Narendra Modi is temporaryutm_source=editorpick&utm_medium=

    Why the political isolation of Narendra Modi is temporary

    If Modi stands in splendid isolation today, it would appear that he represents a break from the consensual leader. But once again the disagreement over Modi is all about optics.

  • Why is the Kedarnath pilgrimage so important? Five key points

    Why is the Kedarnath pilgrimage so important? Five key points

    According to reports, while the temple is safe, the outer compound has been damaged and the town around the temple has suffered massive losses as it felt the full force of the rising waters.

  • It’s batting vs batting as India take on SL in Champions Trophy

    It's batting vs batting as India take on SL in Champions Trophy

    The key player battles for the Champions Trophy semi-final between India and Sri Lanka in Cardiff.

  • The 4 MLAs who helped Nitish Kumar keep calm and carry on

    The 4 MLAs who helped Nitish Kumar keep calm and carry on

    Nitish Kumar’s fate today might swing on six independents. Four of them have extended their support, and two are undecided. Here we give you the low-down on who the decision-makers might be today

  • Hauz Khas Village: The hypocrisy of high-end ‘alternative’ chic

    Hauz Khas Village: The hypocrisy of high-end 'alternative' chic

    HKV provides Delhi’s socialites and chatterati with what they need most: Obnoxious status display masked as anti-establishment virtue.

  • Why diversification is at the heart of a good financial future

    Why diversification is at the heart of a good financial future

    Diversification is a risk management technique that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio. The rationale behind this technique contends that a portfolio of different kinds of investments will, on average, yield optimally desired returns while lowering a risk that is posed by any individual investment found within the portfolio.

  • India lose 1-5 to Australia, crash out of Hockey World League

    India lose 1-5 to Australia, crash out of Hockey World League

    An error-prone India needed a miracle to topple Australia in what was the 100th international fixture between the two sides.

  • Lok Sabha polls 2014: Back to basics for Congress and BJP

    Lok Sabha polls 2014: Back to basics for Congress and BJP

    With the playing field level, from now on it will be a battle of strategies for the Congress and the BJP

  • Chidu’s ‘Ferrari’ of reforms has an autorickshaw engine

    Chidu's 'Ferrari' of reforms has an autorickshaw engine

    A slew of economic reforms has been promised this month, but one should not expect anything more than fancy footwork from the FM.

  • From a fed-up, die-hard fan: An open letter to SRK

    From a fed-up, die-hard fan: An open letter to SRK

    Forget all this surrogacy business. The reason we love Shah Rukh Khan is that he’s been one of Bollywood’s smarter actors. But of late, SRK’s been a bit disappointing, complains a fed-up, die-hard fan.

  • Dhoni has Ganguly’s touch but with a difference

    Dhoni has Ganguly's touch but with a difference

    Rohit, Kohli, Raina, Jadeja, Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar, Umesh – that’s the core of the Indian team today and perhaps it wouldn’t be wrong to say that they are Dhoni’s boys.

  • Vajpayee, Advani, Modi: Every leader has given Hindutva a twist

    Vajpayee, Advani, Modi: Every leader has given Hindutva a twist

    From Vajpayee to Advani to Modi –the Sangh Parivar has come a long way, presenting before India every few years a Hindutva face rendered presentable through a shrewd makeover

  • Why Nitish ‘really’ dumped the Modi-led BJP

    Why Nitish 'really' dumped the Modi-led BJP

    While prima facie it might seem to be a clash of two strong personalities i.e. Modi and Kumar, there is much more to the split than that.

  • 3 Indias at war: Sensex India, Maoist India, and Bharat

    3 Indias at war: Sensex India, Maoist India, and Bharat

    The current tensions in India can directly be traced to three visions of India – one of which will involve breaking the country

  • Last man standing: Why it’s easy to feel sorry for Misbah

    Last man standing: Why it's easy to feel sorry for Misbah

    Sympathy for a Pakistani cricketer, especially a batsman, is a novel emotion for those of us coming from the 90s.

  • Fear of the unknown grips the BJP in Bihar

    Fear of the unknown grips the BJP in Bihar

    Although the party is maintaining a brave face, the eventuality of a split has left many leaders on tenterhooks.

  • In Mamata’s Bengal: Zero tolerance for rape or protesting against rape?

    In Mamata's Bengal: Zero tolerance for rape or protesting against rape?

    Bengal tops the list in violence against women. There have been several reports of gang rape in the past few weeks. The Mamata government has taken quick and stern action – against the women protesting the rapes in front of the CM’s residence.

  • Food security: For poor’s sake, jholawalas must speak up

    Food security: For poor’s sake, jholawalas must speak up

    The subsidy to the rich accounts for more than 7 percent of the GDP while that for the poor, with the food security act, would account for 1.1 percent.

  • Patients get HIV in Assam hospital after blood transfusion, panic spreads

    Patients get HIV in Assam hospital after blood transfusion, panic spreads

    Many patients who were administered blood from the same blood bank fear the worst.

  • Why a BJP-JD(U) split will be good for India

    Why a BJP-JD(U) split will be good for India

    Neither UPA nor NDA is an alliance. And the BJP and JD(U) were mere power-sharers, not allies. To grow, alliances have to be built around principles not just power-sharing

  • Chidu takes comfort in Fitch upgrade, but where are real reforms?

    Chidu takes comfort in Fitch upgrade, but where are real reforms?

    At a press conference, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, however, did not reveal any concrete steps but promised more reforms by August. He said the rupee’s decline is in line with that of the currencies of other countries with high current account deficit like India.

  • Why cutting interest rates will have little impact on industrial production

    Why cutting interest rates will have little impact on industrial production

    The index of industrial production (IIP), a measure of the industrial activity in the country, grew by a meagre 2% in April 2013, in comparison to the same period during 2012. The index was expected to grow by around 2.4% (source: India: Weak growth and sticky retail inflation. Sonal Varma and Aman Mohunta, Nomura). In [...]

  • Why ‘Sir’ Ravindra Jadeja is a people’s genius

    Why 'Sir' Ravindra Jadeja is a people's genius

    If one was simply to go by numbers, young and jolly Jadeja is on course to be a great. That’s not overrating him — it’s the simple logic of statistics one cannot argue against.

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