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Janus-faced Shivraj

MADHYA Pradesh’s bureaucracy is baffled at an apparently Janus-faced Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Like the Roman god Janus that is depicted with...

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Metro : Myths

IN 2016-17, over a billion people rode the Delhi Metro. On some days, over 3.5 million boarded the trains. Based on similar high...

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FARMERS’ STIR IN MADHYA PRADESH : Self delusional edifice crumbles

THE farmer stir that claimed six lives in police firing in Mandsaur on June 5 may have petered out, but its aftereffects are...

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Paresh Baruah rings alarm bells

THE turning point came on the 4th of June, 2015. On that day, after being dormant for fifteen years, the North-East rebels proclaimed...

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UTTAR PRADESH : Making the State investor friendly

UTTAR PRADESH is the most populous state in India, with a large pool of skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled labour. Alternately, the population is...

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1968 batch IAS officers reacted on the lynching of Pehlu Khan at Alwar, officers wrote an open letter to Rajasthan Chief Minister

To, Ms. Vasundhara Raje, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Jaipur. Dear Ms. Vasundhara Raje, We are very disturbed by the lynching and murder of...

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Signs of Congress revival!

C-19, Shivaji Nagar is one of the two most famous addresses in Bhopal, the other being 6, Shyamla Hills, the Chief Minister’s official...

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Jallikattu: It is for the bull not against it

A lot has been written and debated about Jallikattu over the past month. Demonstrations in Tamil Nadu in favour of the sport attracted...

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Humble farmer’s rich friends

JP (Jai Pakash or Jaypee) Associates managing director Sunny Gaur, infrastructure doyen Dilip Suryavanshi, mining Baron Sanjay Pathak and coal trader brothers Satish...

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Double speak on Narmada

ON January 11, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is slated to perform Bhoomi Pujan for the Rs. 750-crore Coca-Cola bottling plant...