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I learned about the New Zealand shooting massacre Friday morning, while listening to news on the radio. The reporter was speaking to local Muslims about their reaction and the voices were distinctly South Asian. A newspaper report Saturday morning says that nine Indians are among...

When cooking chicken or meat, most people carefully wash and cook the flesh properly. Unfortunately, there are some things which any amount of washing, boiling or roasting cannot clean out – and they are drugs. There is a cocktail of drugs in your meat and...

With the principal Opposition, the Congress party, bracing up to fight the coming Lok Sabha polls – as also polls to four state Assemblies – the mood at the Sardar Patel National Memorial in Ahmedabad was less than inspiring, Tuesday. Neither UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi...

Curtains are virtually down on the Modi phase – the five-year term starting from mid-2014. Overall, it is a pity that Prime Minister Modi and the BJP should now be relying largely on one fig leaf – a new element at that -- to win...

After an anxious wait and what seemed like a drag, the schedule for elections to the Lok Sabha and four state Assemblies has been announced by the Election Commission of India (EC). This sets the ball rolling for the world’s largest democratic exercise involving 90 crore...

I read an interesting book this week, titled ‘Which of us are Aryans?’. It has a series of essays by experts who analyse recent material from the fields of genetics, linguistics and archaeology to determine our origins. Till the 1920s, Indians did not know about...

Though the government simplified the process of filing immovable property returns for babus in 2016, there has not been much change in their attitude. Despite the expiry of deadline for filing immovable property returns (IPRs) for 2018, 340 IAS officers are yet to file their...

The US President Donald Trump has finally come good on his threat by announcing a freeze on preferential treatment to imports from India under the generalised system of preferences (GSP). The Commerce Ministry was quick to make light the eventual impact, saying the GSP benefits...

Air pollution takes the worst form among the “slow and silent” killers on this planet. Its major victims are urban dwellers, huge in number and caught also in other forms of pollution in their daily lives. Emissions from the steadily growing number of vehicles and...