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Innovative disruption

26 Jul 2010

Innovative disruption

THE JOB profile of the Union home minister has never included the word “diplomacy”. Palaniappan Chidambaram knows it better than any of his predecessors, including ...

Divide and rule tactics

19 Jul 2010

Divide and rule tactics

SPIRALLING prices, the Maoist menace, the Bhopal tragedy compounded, the fiasco in Islamabad, feuding ministers. The list is long enough to make anyone think that ...

Pawarful counter attack

12 Jul 2010

Pawarful counter attack

AMONTH ago, when in the wake of the 2G spectrum scandal, rumours swirled about the possible axing of A. Raja. A Congress spokesperson said, “It ...

Honour the brave

05 Jul 2010

Honour the brave

ON JULY 15, foreign minister S.M. Krishna will leave for Islamabad for bilateral talks with his Pakistani counterpart. Krishna says he is going for talks ...

High ideals & low practice

28 Jun 2010

High ideals & low practice

IT WAS once touted as a cadre-based party, bred on iron discipline whose leaders do not compromise on principles. Today, it is at best an ...

Fly and mighty

21 Jun 2010

Fly and mighty

DESPITE being Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy for more than six years now, Manmohan Singh is yet to make the transition from economist ...

Silence is golden

14 Jun 2010

Silence is golden

THERE is a raging existential crisis in the Congress that threatens to cripple the government and the party. UPA ministers feuding openly at cabinet meetings ...

Frequent f lier

07 Jun 2010

Frequent f lier

LATER this month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will leave behind spiralling prices, the Maoist menace, feuding cabinet ministers, Mamata’s tantrums and other niggling issues and ...

GenNext hits back

31 May 2010

GenNext hits back

MANMOHAN Singh must have known it was coming and it has come earlier than he expected. There have been deep divisions within the union cabinet ...

PM meets the press

24 May 2010

PM meets the press

EVEN as you are reading this, Manmohan Singh is probably preparing for what is only his second formal press conference after assuming office as the ...

Not quite the one

17 May 2010

Not quite the one

IAMnot the betting kind, but if for a change, I were to indulge in it, I’d put some money on the next bizarre thing that ...

It’s all on the house

10 May 2010

It’s all on the house

ONE MORE Parliament session has ended and once again it is time for the aam aadmi to wonder if they have wasted their time and ...

Bug Brother Is Listening

03 May 2010

Bug Brother Is Listening

CELL phone recorders, voice loggers, off-the-air monitoring devices, intercepted emails — the latest James Bond blockbuster? No. It’s just another day in the life of ...

Reshuff le on the cards

26 Apr 2010

Reshuff le on the cards

WHAT do you do when things are not going as planned, or worse, show signs of falling apart? Order a cabinet reshuffle. That’s what Sonia ...

Give allies their due

19 Apr 2010

Give allies their due

THE MESSAGE to both the Congress and the Prime Minister appears to be stern, loud and clear: your foes are known, now choose your friends. ...

Emerging stronger

12 Apr 2010

Emerging stronger

UNION home minister P. Chidambaram has acted with honour and integrity and set an example by offering to resign after the massacre of 76 security ...

Goodbye to arrogance

05 Apr 2010

Goodbye to arrogance

TODAY, senior Union ministers are to meet with the leaders of the opposition parties to sort out differences over the contentious Women’s Reservation Bill. Over ...

US doesn’t want you

29 Mar 2010

US doesn’t want you

WHO GOES there? Friend or foe? Indo-US relations have been on the up and up ever since Atal Bihari Vajpayee went on an official visit ...

The best foot forward

22 Mar 2010

The best foot forward

SOMETIME in May, when UPA II completes a year in office, Manmohan Singh will do something he has done only once in his five and ...

Finally in the driver’s seat

15 Mar 2010

Finally in the driver’s seat

THERE’S considerable speculation surrounding the longevity of the government following the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha last week and almost ...

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