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Next set of 27 smart cities to be announced next week, says Venkaiah Naidu

The Modi-government aims to transform about 100 cities by 2019-20, with the Union government providing financial support of Rs 48,000 crore over five years.

Facebook offers 'political bias' training to employees

Facebook has started offering "Political Bias" training to its employees to address the concerns that were raised during the trending topics controversy where the social media giant was accused to systematic bias towards conservatives.

Yakub Memon hanged: Why India still needs capital punishment

All said and done, there is a case for retaining the death sentence in the rarest of rare cases, provided the phrase "rarest of rare" is defined clearly and transparently. What is worrisome about capital punishment is its occasional arbitrariness.

Syed Ali Shah Geelani certainly isn't an Indian; but he is not a Kashmiri either

Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has applied for an Indian passpost and then went on to say he is not an Indian by birth. He is right, but for reasons unrelated to what he stands for.

Is BJP Right and Congress Left? The Left-Right binary is fairly useless in India

The Left-Right classification of BJP and Congress and leaders in India is a blind copy from European definitions that make no sense in our context.

Dear Congress, 'communication' is not your problem, corruption is

The troika of Sonia, Rahul and Manmohan were equally deafening in their silence in UPA I, but that didn't stop the party from winning a decisive second mandate. The reason it didn't matter was because the voters approved of the performance of the government.

Italy's Bersani meets Berlusconi to seek end to impasse

ROME (Reuters) - Italian centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani met his centre-right rival Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday to discuss the election for the next president of the Republic, offering hope of a breakthrough in the deadlock left by elections in February.