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Why smugglers across India-Bangladesh bo | It's perhaps the law of unintended consequences. The Indian government had earlier this month banned the cough syrup Phensedyl, among a host of drugs. But the Delhi High Court on March 16 granted an interim injunction to drugmaker Abbott against the government action. | 30-Mar-2016 |
Why good sleep is essential for both bod | We spend one third of our life sleeping. There must be a good reason why nature makes us sleep for this long. Large number of studies all over the world has shown the beneficial effects of good sleep. | 29-Mar-2016 |
Trust Virat Kohli to win matches on his | Whether India will be the first country to win the World Twenty20 a second time or not, there is hope so long as Virat Kohli wields the willow on the pitch, as he has done in the tournament, winning key matches on his own. | 29-Mar-2016 |
Donald Trump and BJP hawks: Birds of a f | The similarities between the views of Donald Trump, the Republican Party hopeful in the US presidential campaign, and the BJP hawks in India are too obvious to be ignored. | 26-Mar-2016 |
India's 3rd Internet Gateway : lack of v | 17-Mar-2016 | |
The NEXT STAGE, COMRADE | My book Agartala Doctrine (OUP) has helped massively highlight Tripura's role in crucial national issues -- after being launched in 7 cities and accompanied by panel discussions which brought together some of the nation's finest minds, I can say, even at the risk of beating my own trumpet, that Indians have realised the importance of what Tripura's leaders have done. As famous journalist-author-researcher Sanjoy Hazarika said at my Delhi book launch -" We Assamese need to learn from Tripura". From top diplomats to intelligence officers to generals to academics, all have endorsed the 'Agartala doctrine of neighborhood managemenrt' that I developed on the basis of the role chief ministers Sachin Singh to Manik Sarkar have played . My book has put Tripura on the thought map of the country , to say the least. | 17-Mar-2016 |
A Railway line to Northeast India : from | The geographical expression, ‘North-East’ in India has always been relegated to ‘dereliction’ since its incarnation on Earth. And as a matter of fact, India has always been ‘virtually’ polarised along the lines of regionalism. In the country’s social as well as political discourse, one side of the country have always been termed as ‘Northeast India’, whereas the other as ‘Mainland India’. Both sides have been connected with each other via the 21-km narrow corridor called ‘Siliguri Corridor’ or the ‘Chicken’s Neck’ since Independence. | 15-Mar-2016 |
Performance of Modi Govt and the Parliam | Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Government is poised to enter its third year soon. This government is first with absolute majority since late Rajiv Gandhi headed a majority government after the 1985 Lok Sabha elections. | 11-Mar-2016 |
Yet another victim of brainwash ! A lett | 11-Mar-2016 | |
Five key lessons about women and work in | While marginally more women work in India than in Pakistan (27 percent and 25 percent, respectively), PakistanÂ’s female labour-force participation rate is growing and IndiaÂ’s is declining. The percentage of women working in Bangladesh is three times higher than in India, which ranks last among BRICS countries in terms of womenÂ’s labour-force participation -- among G-20 countries, it is second to last, behind only Saudi Arabia. | 08-Mar-2016 |
Dhoni knows a thing or two about winning | How can there be a favourite to win a lottery! That’s Twenty20 and you can put your money on anyone. On the day India beat Bangaldesh to win the Asia Cup in Mirpur, the Australians chased down South Africa’s 205-run target in Johannesburg. | 08-Mar-2016 |
Get even with gout | Gout is today the most common inflammatory arthritis in men and older women. This excruciatingly painful condition is caused by the crystallization of uric acid within joints. | 05-Mar-2016 |
Kanhaiya windfall only for CPI or CPI-M | Kanhaiya Kumar’s genius as a public speaker is self evident from his first speech in JNU on February 11 and the one he made on the campus after returning from Tihar Jail on March 3. The CPI feels it has a legitimate right to hitch its wagon to this new star. | 05-Mar-2016 |
Protest-march against anti-nationals in | It was an usual protest demonstration, where thousands took part chanting slogans against anti-national elements that marched on busy streets of Guwahati city. | 03-Mar-2016 |
Jat mayhem: Quota system out of sync in | ust as Prime Minister Narendra Modi described MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) as a living monument to the Congress's decades-old neglect of rural distress, the quota system is the fallout of, first, a similar prolonged failure in the fields of employment and education and, secondly, of political chicanery. | 01-Mar-2016 |