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Comrade AB Bardhan, former general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), passed away on 2 January in New Delhi after prolonged illness. He was 92. Sudheendra Kulkarni gives his "heartfelt lal salaam" to him in his obituary as he shares some memories of time spent with him, calling him "a selfless and dedicated communist, whose heart beat for the working class and the poor in general".
Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa, a Delhi School of Economics-educated former IAS officer, who was appointed as the governor of Arunachal Pradesh by the present BJP-led NDA government at New Delhi, recently toppled the democratically elected state government under Chief Minister Nabam Tuki of the Congress. Should this "anti-democratic, colonial post of the Governor" be abolished?
Three days into the Delhi government's trial run of the 'odd-even' rule in the city, yesterday was the real test for the anti-pollution effort, with Delhiites getting back to work after a long weekend. We compared traffic in six major roads in Delhi on Monday real-time to their usual load and the result was eye-opening.
Prohibition is back in the limelight with the Supreme Court upholding the Kerala government's new liquor policy which bans drinking in public and restricts its serving to 5-star hotels. Is prevention better than prohibition?
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All six terrorists who attacked the Pathankot Air Force Station have been killed, and the armed forces were now sanitizing the base to make sure no more fidayeen were hidden inside.
The Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee on Monday recommended sweeping reforms for the controversy-ridden BCCI, suggesting a bar on ministers from occupying positions, putting a cap on the age and tenure of the office-bearers and legalising betting.
In a major restructuring, India's third largest IT services firm Wipro on Monday named Abid Ali Neemuchwala as its new Chief Executive Officer, replacing TK Kurien who has been elevated as Executive Vice Chairman.
10 people were killed and around 120 others were injured when a 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck the northeast India early Monday morning.
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Four new elements have been added to the periodic table, making science textbooks across the world out of date. The elements were verified and added by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) last week, making the scientific chart's seventh row officially complete.
Even as members of the state political party in Odisha, Biju Janata Dal, stalled Assembly proceedings and announced a hartal, most of the agitating party members — despite their "self-righteous wrath on the issue" — seem to know little about the multi-purpose project that they want scrapped, The Telegraph found.
Supreme Court Chief Justice of India T S Thakur and Justice A K Sikri, who are both exempt from the Delhi Government's 'odd-even' rule since they hold constitutional posts, have decided to lead by example and carpool. As the top court opened after the winter break on Monday, Justice Sikri picked up the CJI on his way to court.
Following the embarrassing debacle last month where the government's Press Information Bureau (PIB) had photoshopped Prime Minister Narendra Modi's image showing him doing an aerial survey of flood-ravaged Tamil Nadu, the government is now in the process of finalising Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to prevent any other incidents of 'merging' to take place ever again.
Opinion
Inept handling has transformed what should have been a short counter-terrorist operation in Pathankot into an apparent debacle, writes Ajai Shukla in Business Standard: "Intent on directly controlling what he anticipated would be a walk in the park, and without anticipating that there might be more than one group of terrorists, Mr Doval led with his trump card — he ordered 150-160 National Security Guard (NSG) troopers to be flown down immediately from New Delhi. The army was placed on the side-lines."
India must talk to Pakistan — and ensure that cross-border terror is on top of the agenda, writes DC Pathak in The Indian Express: "The Modi government should not make the mistake that the previous regime committed in the wake of the 26/11 attack — that of accepting the glib suggestion that some “non-state actors” were behind all the mischief of cross-border terrorism, which had afflicted India all these years."
Article 370 must be scrapped to reverse the "worst act of intolerance in recent Indian history" — the exile of Kashmiri Pandits — writes Anupam Kher in The Times of India: "This ethnic cleansing has been wilfully kept under wraps by a cabal of politicians, bureaucrats and sections of a celebrity-chasing media."
Lodha Committee’s recommendation of legalising betting in cricket is welcome, writes Desh Gaurav Sekhri in The Economic Times: "Legalising betting is expected to reduce the prevalence of black money making its way into the economy, and promoting nefarious activities. It is also expected to bring significant revenue for the government with some estimates at Rs 10,000-12,000 crore annually, while at the same time helping monitor and regulate sports-related activities and discrepancies."
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