Monday, 30th October 2017

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Opinion

The RBI is not the government’s back office

Reserve Bank of India headquarters in Mumbai

All the countries that India would like to compare itself with have separate central banks and give them autonomy

By Ashok V. Desai

India

National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, who has been named in petition, was not available for comment

CBI DIG opens can of worms in Supreme Court

By R. Balaji and Imran Ahmed Siddiqui

Opinion

Principle of reservations turned upside down

By The Editorial Board

India

BJP memo bares party stand on Sabarimala

By K.M. Rakesh

Opinion

By blocking CBI, Bengal and AP weaken federalism

By The Editorial Board

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A man spitting at Fraser Road in Patna.

Opinion

Being nationalist is easier than being civilised

By Anup Sinha
US consul general Patricia Hoffman plays rugby with the boys and girls selected for the two-year English Access Microscholarship Program on the Maidan on Monday.

West Bengal

Empowered with English

By A Staff Reporter
DEA agent, Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena, played flawlessly by Michael Peña (second from left), is obsessed with getting ahead of an apathetic system

Culture

Why it’s dope: Binge-watching Narcos: Mexico

By Saloni Meghani
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) during Path-Sanchalan or Route March in Meerut on Oct 28, 2018

Books

To read the mind of behemoth RSS

By Shaikh Mujibur Rehman
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah during the party's Central Election Committee meeting for the forthcoming Assembly polls at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on November 11

Opinion

Modi is not face of campaign in poll-bound states

By The Telegraph
Features
The Farmer’s Rights Convention organised by the All India Kisan Sabha at the Yashwantrao Chavan Centre in Mumbai on November 12.
In Narcos: Mexico Diego Luna plays the 'Rockefeller of Cocaine' who was there when the ongoing Mexican drug war started
In his book, India Ahead, 2025 and Beyond, Jalan lays out a slew of measures for accelerating India’s growth
Comment
Carnatic vocalist T. M. Krishna in New Delhi on Saturday, November 17

A scholar of Hindutva and humour

By Anahita Mukherji

A man spitting at Fraser Road in Patna.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah during the party's Central Election Committee meeting for the forthcoming Assembly polls at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on November 11
The new-found popularity of ‘toxic’ can only be explained by the widening of the scope of its use.
In Sanskritising the linguistically diverse Bollywood canon, he may as well start with Shah Rukh Khan (pictured) and then work his way back to Aladdin
French President Emmanuel Macron has argued that defending the ability to empathise must be conceived as the benchmark of patriotism in a globalised world
A boy, his father, and a cow rummage for scraps on a street during the Bengal famine of 1943
If you are from a country with a prime minister who has been too scared to even once hold a proper press conference with hostile questioning, you would regard Donald Trump's post-election presser with horror and admiration
Dennis sometimes causes acute embarrassment by speaking the truth at the wrong times
Enforcement Directorate officials raided Amnesty International India's office in Bangalore on October 25 for alleged violation of foreign funding norms
Former CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani has moved the Bombay High Court after the CBFC ordered him to incorporate 20 cuts to his movie in order to get a certificate.
Liberal values of freedom of speech and dissent, tolerance and respect for institutions of democracy, are under attack around the world

The paradoxes inherent in liberalism

By Krishnan Srinivasan

A study by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization confirms that poor-quality diet poses a greater threat to public health across the world than malaria, tuberculosis or measles
Detail of Bharhut Stupa at the Indian Museum, Calcutta
Human activity has resulted in the annihilation of 60 per cent of the vertebrate population in 50 years

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