Pakistan is in a state of flux...

Pakistan is in a state of flux...

Anyone who has missed the untenable situation that the Pakistan government has subjected itself into, may read this editorial and understand the haplessness of the present scenario...

The very confusion in the writing is the reflection of the Pakistan Government's apathy...

Rana Banerjee has expressed the situation beautifully in his editorial titled

"Pakistan is in a state of flux..."

'It's one full year since the last polio case in India was recorded'

Q&A


with Karin Hulshof, Unicef representative, about the tragedy of children paralysed by the disease, the triumph of how India tackled it - and what we need to do now to protect future generations for polio

Q&A

-The Times of India, January 13, 2012

The Risks Of Conflict

US intervention in Syria would have have too many policy challenges and political pitfalls


The Risks Of Conflict

-The Times of India, January 13, 2012

Dirty picture

The smoking-scene ban in films likely to boost the porn industry


Dirty picture

-The Times of India, January 13, 2012

Rattle The Frame

A coddled bureaucracy is more rust than steel 


Rattle The Frame

-The Times of India, January 13, 2012

Signs Of Strain

Much rides on how Pakistan's political crisis is resolved


Signs Of Strain


-The Times of India, January 13, 2012

The year the global economy refused to get well

"As the U.S. and eurozone crises prevented a global recovery in 2011, countries such as India now need to focus on domestic demand."

The year the global economy refused to get well

A major milestone in polio eradication

"While one year has passed without polio caused by natural poliovirus, we can claim complete eradication only after we ensure the absence of wild and vaccine polioviruses in the population."

The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : A major milestone in polio eradication

Many experts believed that India posed the greatest challenge to polio eradication for epidemiological reasons; our success proves it can be achieved in other countries where the obstacles are more programmatic than biological. For the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), this is a shot in the arm.

Vartanyan, legendary Soviet spy, dead

"He was only 19 when he foiled an attempt by Nazi Germany to assassinate the Big Three allied leaders."

The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Vartanyan, legendary Soviet spy, dead

"The legendary Soviet spy, Gevork Vartanyan, who foiled Nazi Germany's plot to assassinate Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in Tehran in 1943, died"

He once said he spoke eight foreign languages and in five of them was “as fluent as in my native tongue,” but he would not name any of the languages because this would disclose “the geography of my undercover operations.” It was only several years ago that the Russian government revealed Mr.Vartanyan's role in the Tehran operation, but his lengthy track record remains classified.

A Short Walk to Freedom

"Former Malaysian deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was acquitted recently. After meeting him, you realise that it was his strong sense of humour and conviction that he was never in the wrong that helped him survive six years in solitary confinement. It was during that period that he suffered so much police assault that he was once mistaken for dead. "

The Hindu : Opinion / Interview : A Short Walk to Freedom

"While he needs surgery, he plans to postpone it since it would affect his travel and preparation for the next general elections in Malaysia. He heads the Opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat or People’s Justice Party and is confident of winning on a progressive multiethnic platform with emphasis on an independent judiciary and a free media."

Kim Jong-il to be embalmed

"Kim Jong-il's body would be embalmed and laid in state next to his father — North Korea's founder, Kim Il-sung — in Pyongyang, the capital."

The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Kim Jong-il to be embalmed

In addition, the regime is reportedly in the process of erecting “smiling portraits” of Kim and “towers to his immortality” across the country. The party's central committee has named his birthday on February 16 the Day of the Shining Star.

For the government

"SEBI recently authorised two additional methods of accessing the capital market — Institutional Placement Programme (IPP) and Offer for Sale of Shares through the stock exchanges — offer companies flexible, cost-effective and less time-consuming options for accessing the capital market, specifically to meet the minimum public shareholding norms."

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : For the government

"Significant changes in regulation to the capital market should be for the common benefit of the regulated. They should not be framed so as to favour few. This salutary principle has evidently not been kept in mind in this case. Whatever the justification, it is clear that SEBI's new guidelines do not serve the interests of even the disinvestment process."

Cameron risks the union

"David Cameron's proposal for a referendum on Scottish independence might have caught opponents as well as allies by surprise."

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : Cameron risks the union

"Constitutionally, only Westminster can legislate for Scottish independence, but it remains the case that no British parliament can bind its successor. That in turn means that even if the Prime Minister forestalls Scottish independence now, he could well generate enough opposition in Scotland to ensure the dissolution of the United Kingdom in the not inconceivable future."

Pharmaceutical industry

The editor, Pillman, explains the market conditions in the present pharmaceutical industry and the road ahead in his article

"Big Pharma can gain from Tango with small fry"