60 pc of rural India lives on less than Rs 35 a day
About 60 per cent of India’s rural population lives on less than Rs 35 a day and nearly as many in cities live on Rs 66 a day, reveals a government survey on income and expenditure.
Air India doesn’t want to be saved
What is it with public sector behemoths who with their incessant and errant profligacy constantly run to mommy or in their case nanny and ask for bailouts?
Teaching machines to obey spoken commands
Technology will soon allow us to talk to any machine – from TV to car – and get a response, says Natasha Singer
Rahul Dravid retires: much more than a wall
"I don’t believe that you judge careers, or what people have done for 15-20 years based on one or two matches at the end"- Jamie Alter , Cricketnext.com
The Mullaperiyar Dam dispute between Kerala and Tamil Nadu is unnecessary
Futurologists say that the next world war will be fought over water because fresh supplies will become increasingly scarce. Pakistan has already added water to the long list of disputes
Dravid’s powerful speech in Oz gets standing ovation
Thank you for inviting me to deliver the Bradman Oration; the respect and the regard that came with the invitation to speak tonight, is deeply appreciated.
Anna Hazare lifts BJP but not enough
BJP is the biggest gainer from Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption campaign although not enough to win an election on its own, a STAR News-Nielsen survey
Of Anna, end of corruption and democracy
he great middle-class Indian iconolatry is an amalgam of feudalism, Bollywood and corporate glitz that piggybacks Boswellian media attention.
Shiv Visvanathan’s open letter to the PM
I am writing this to you as I always assumed you were a decent man. I was waiting for your speech on August 15th, hoping you would somehow say something meaningful on corruption that would redeem your long silence.
Really free? Are we?
“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, but rarely in history...
Why globalisation is no antithesis of Hindutva
Two things happened twenty years ago. Manmohan Singh was brought from Geneva’s economic think-tank South Centre and appointed finance minister
Yeddyurappa, The Master Survivor Grounded By Mining Scam
B S Yeddyurappa has been a master survivor emerging unscathed through much turbulence in his three years in office before the Lokayukta report...
The guilty, named in 2008, got away
The State government’s claim of having initiated reforms to curb illegal mining does not stand scrutiny, when one compares the steps taken by the State on the recommendations made by Lokayukta Santosh Hegde in his interim report.
India warns: End to terrorism can’t be guaranteed
The triple bombing that killed 17 in the heart of India’s financial capital sparked anger Thursday over the government’s inability to prevent terror...
Saga of newspapers in Tulunadu
Not only have the national media felt the need to make their presence felt in the undivided Dakshina Kannada district, even enterprising locals have ventured into small time media houses
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