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Who will win 2019? Analysis

With an upswing of about 4 per cent in vote share, as reported in recent polls/surveys, can the Congress tide over its lowest ebb (44 MPs in the 16th Lok …

By praising Modi, forgiving Congress, Jagan keeps everybody guessing

Amaravati: YSR Congress Party leader Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is keeping everyone guessing with his praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and also by forgiving the Congress. With just four …

Bullet Trains A Ridiculous Move— For Whose Sake ? Faulty Priorities

Hyderabad: It was only a couple of days ago that a senior leader of the ruling BJP at the Centre, Lakshmi Chawla from Punjab, had suggested to the Prime Minister Narendra …

Is climate change apocalypse real? Practice is better than preaching

Hyderabad/ India : Is the looming climate change apocalypse real? In the clearly-demarcated battle lines, the good guys are those who believe it is and the bad guys, like US …

Salvaging trust after Urjit Patel’s exit

Disagreements between the government and the central bank are a common occurrence in any economy. It is an expected outcome, given their contrasting roles where one has to maintain the …

BJP Faces Ignominious Defeat in State Reasons Analyzed

Hyderabad: The Bharateeya Janata Party (BJP) has faced an ignominious defeat in the Assembly elections, results of which were announced today. As against five seats held by it in the …

Sentinelese in shadows: A lesson in letting live

By Sahana Ghosh and Mayank Aggarwal New Delhi: John Allen Chau, a 26-year-old American missionary who “illegally” paddled his way to the remote shores of North Sentinel Island in the …

Kashmir’s mahagathbandhan depends on Mehbooba, Omar

There has been an element of unseemly haste and even recklessness in some of the recent acts of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Such hurried initiatives have been seen in …

Today’s authoritarian governance is far more ominous for democracy: Author Gyan Prakash

New Delhi: That the nation is embodied in the Prime Minister is the telling similarity between the Emergency of 1975-77 under Indira Gandhi and the contemporary state of affairs in India …

Can we bank on seed banks? Priority should be to conserve natural habitats (Environment Feature)

New Delhi: India, which has “great expertise” in the conservation of genetic resources of crop plants through seed banking, is now “rapidly” working to extend the safeguards to difficult-to-conserve (recalcitrant) …