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The questions "Is India tolerant?" and its parallel obverse "Is India intolerant?" are both meaningless. Some people in India are tolerant, and some are not. The accusation of intolerance implies both quantitative and qualitative increase -- there are more intolerant people now than earlier, and these intolerant people also have greater power and access to resources than earlier.
Is Japan trying to kick the ladder away from India by not letting the country develop its indigenous technology? No country is foolish enough to share its core technology — in this case bogie technology — which decides the relationship between wheels and rail and Japan is no exception.
On Wednesday, Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh paid homage to the paramilitary personnel killed in a Border Security Force (BSF) plane crash in Delhi. There he faced a heart-rending question from one woman, a family member of one of the victims.
It doesn't take a white Christmas to really get in the spirit of things. A recently-launched touching Christmas commercial features classical Muslim sufi artists strumming the more popular Christmas carols on their sitars.
Main News
Instead of a last-ditch effort by the Modi government to push its critical Goods And Services Tax Bill, the final day of the Winter Session was monopolised by the arrival of the latest batch of stones for the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
After he was recently acquitted in a 13-year-old case of hit-and-run that resulted in the death of a man who was sleeping on the pavement, Bollywood super star Salman Khan's legal troubles are far from over. The Maharashtra government has decided to challenge the verdict of the Bombay High Court acquitting Khan of all charges in the 2002 case by taking the matter to the Supreme Court.
Chintan Upadhayay, the estranged husband of artist Hema Upadhyay, plotted the murder of his wife as he apparently wanted to get rid of the court cases that he was fighting with her, police said on Wednesday.
Defence, nuclear energy and international terror are likely to figure in the discussions between Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin as the Indian Prime Minister embarked on a two-day visit to Moscow yesterday for annual summit talks.
The Delhi government has written to the Lieutenant-Governor for authorisation to issue challans to people who do not follow the odd-even registration number rule while entering Delhi. However, 20 categories will be exempt from the rule. This includes two-wheelers, women drivers, hybrid cars, VVIPs except Delhi CM Kejriwal, among others.
While there is no mention of beef in the chargesheet for the Dadri lynching, a local BJP leader's son is among the 15 who have been named as one of the main conspirators who led the mob to Akhlaq’s house and assaulted the family.
Off The Front Page
A car which Dawood Ibrahim purportedly used in his heydays was on Wednesday set ablaze by a right wing outfit here with a poster of the fugitive gangster pasted on its windscreen, a fortnight after the ramshackle vehicle was auctioned in Mumbai for Rs 32,000. The scrap from the sedan will be now used as a toilet.
Twins of Kodinhi, a sleepy village here known globally for high rate of multiple births, are struggling to keep their privacy due to the constant presence of international media and medical researchers.
Inside the two US universities in the Bay Area that are in the news after several students who came here to study have been deported, and others have not been allowed to board flights from Hyderabad on their way here, even a cursory tour of the institutions and interviews with students points to a massive academic rip-off where getting a good education and earning a degree is secondary to immigration.
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Wednesday agreed to expunge her own words after a Congress protest, in a development that is rare if not unprecedented.
In an unusual incident, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was pulled back by a Russian official as he walked past the guard of honour accorded to him while the Indian national anthem was being played soon after his arrival at the Moscow airport on Wednesday.
Opinion
Rajya Sabha has failed in its role as a delaying chamber for unwise legislation, writes Abantika Ghosh in The Indian Express: "In rushing the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2015 (JJ bill) through on Tuesday, sidestepping the original demand of at least a section of the House that the bill required further consideration and should be referred to a select committee, the House reinforced the noise deliberately created by the government and echoed by the faithful on social media that the Upper House is redundant."
Do not label foreign-made military hardware as ‘indigenous’, writes Bharat Karnad in Hindustan Times: "Without the home-based design engineering element, foreign developed military hardware mislabelled ‘indigenous’ will continue to keep India a captive of foreign vendors, and the Indian government will be played for a fool it unfortunately has shown itself to be in these matters, even as the prospect of a truly indigenous, comprehensively capable, Indian defence industry keeps receding."
The turmoil in West Asia is unlikely to end anytime soon, writes Kanwal Sibal in The Telegraph: "To stabilize Syria, with a transitional political arrangement followed by elections, seems extraordinarily difficult. Millions of refugees will have to return and vote. Whether any moderate Opposition exists in Syria is doubtful. It suits the West to call extremists moderates for political reasons, and that includes the Jabhat al-Nusra, which is affiliated to al Qaida."
World cricket needs West Indies and they need help, writes Boria Mazumdar in The Economic Times: "The real truth is cricket itself is fast emerging as the main adversary for the game in the West Indies. Rather, it is the inception of T-20 leagues in India, Australia, Bangladesh etc that have become the bane for the Caribbean game."
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