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Namita Bhandare In the middle of a mall-obsessed, real estate-hungry Singapore, I am rambling through a rainforest. Located within the Botanic Gardens, this unexpected jungle is, for the four million people who visit it every year, a…
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Since country's first general elections in 1952, serving soldiers have been casting votes far away from native constituencies through postal ballot which has been a cumbersome process for many. As per the procedure during the Assembly and…
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There were lot of peripheral talks with evasive statements both ways in our negotiations with China over the past some decades. Although, we were able to ward off military confrontations but the pin-prick incursions continued. These have…
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Kalyani Shankar Will Delhi have a new government or will it go for a fresh poll? The capital may not be a full State as the Delhi Assembly and Government have only truncated powers, but it is politically important. Most right-thinking…
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There are repeated reports of minor robberies and frequent thefts from water logged, inundated, flash flood ravaged abandoned houses. That has added to the miseries of already crest fallen people riddled with crises of enormous dimensions.…
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As the 17th Asian Games progress India's performance at Incheon in South Korea will be under scanner. And expectations would be will India surpass its performance at 2012 London Olympics and 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. The Chinese…
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 Kay Benedict Forty-five years ago then Congress President S Nijalingappa led a revolt against Indira Gandhi, who was then Prime Minister, and expelled her from the party for  "fostering a cult of personality". That  action was culmination…
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The incursion by 600 troops of Peoples Libration Army (PLA) of China against 100 odd Indian soldiers, their movement of civilian population of nomads deep inside establishing a tented camp with support from PLA and their air maintenance by…
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The referendum on Scotland and it has decided to stay under the Union Jack. British Prime Minister David Cameron was right when he said recently in an interview, "Whatever the result, we are a democracy. You have to respect the expression…
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Vinayshil Gautam The quality of public discourse has been steadily declining and needs to be arrested. The quality of enquiry, the quality of interrogation, interpretation of the data which normally precedes discussion, is poor. One is not…
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