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Opinion: India Needs To Focus On Tracks Before Trains
We are still not sure exactly why India's storied Coromandel Express plowed into a stationary freight train late on Friday night last week, setting off a three-train pileup that cost almost 300 people their lives.
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Opinion: Ahead Of Budget, Big Hints From Government On A Welcome Change
The good news is that the government may be undergoing a change of heart ahead of next year's budget - or, at least, it may not be quite as willing to revel in protectionism as before.
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Opinion: Make in India? It Will Take More Than Subsidies
Last week, while inaugurating a new aircraft factory in western India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to a slogan he coined a few months after taking power in 2014: "Make in India." This time, however, he added: "Make for the world."
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Opinion: India's Balancing Act On Russia Is Getting Trickier
India's official position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine is notoriously hard to pin down.
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Opinion: Leicester, The New Epicentre Of Communal Tension
Here in India, Hindu-Muslim clashes that threaten houses of worship, force shops to close and inflame passions on social media no longer constitute news. It is noteworthy, however, when they break out in the English Midlands.
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Opinion: India's Fast GDP Growth Doesn't Mean It's Ready for Take-off Yet
Over the past three years, in fact, GDP in India has grown just over 3% and less than4% since the last quarter before the pandemic.
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Opinion: Britain Is Burning Up. India Has Some Tips
London was burning earlier this week. So many blazes erupted during the recent heatwave that the city's fire brigades had their busiest day since Hitler sent his V-2s screaming across the Channel.
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Opinion: India Can't Afford to Lose World's Trust On Trade
Prime Minister Narendra Modi often speaks of "trusted" supply chains. At the G-20 last year, he said that global supply chains depend upon "trust, transparency, and timeframes".
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Opinion: India, Struck By Heat Wave, Can't Afford Its Coal Addiction
Nothing makes you appreciate air-conditioning like high summer in India. Here in Delhi, temperatures are running over 100 degrees for much of the day, with two full months still to go before the cooling monsoon rains arrive.
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Opinion: Imran Khan's Anti-Americanism Masks The Real Issue
Pakistan's institutions began their slow abandonment of democracy almost 70 years ago, when the country's Supreme Court legitimized a coup by the executive and dismissal of the constituent assembly. The judges claimed that a "doctrine of necessity" t
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Opinion: Imran Khan's Fall From Grace Is His Own Fault
Pakistan is once again facing a political crisis. In a country where democratically elected leaders are regularly ousted from office, that should not be entirely surprising, says Mihir Sharma.
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Opinion: Why PM Modi Keeps Winning - And Winning Big
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party has cemented its grip on national politics with its excellent showing in state elections, particularly in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh. The BJP's stranglehold on power in New Delhi
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Opinion: The Key To India's Biggest Election? Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Voting has begun in crucial state-level elections in India which will shape Prime Minister Narendra Modi's choices for the remainder of his second term in office. Of the five states going to the polls, one clearly matters more than the others.
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Opinion: The Good News in India's Bleak Budget
India's Union Budget is both a presentation of the national accounts and the only statement of government policy that we get all year. This year, the accounts made for worrying reading.
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Opinion: If BJP Is Allowing Hate Speech, Opposition Isn't Pushing Back Either
The north Indian town of Haridwar, where the Ganges River flows out of the Himalayas onto India's vast plains, has been for centuries a destination for pilgrims. For three days in December, it also played host to what the media has called a "hate-spe
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Opinion: PM Modi's Green New Deal Could Really Work - Here's Why
After making great strides in promoting renewable energy, India is once again being singled out as a global climate laggard.
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Opinion: Third Wave Likely This Month, India Not As Ready As It Thinks
Memories of India's devastating second wave of Covid-19 are slowly receding. The pandemic has once again fallen out of the headlines; malls and mountain resorts are crowded with shoppers and tourists.
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Opinion: Why Pegasus Scandal Is A Wake-Up Call For US
Of the 50,000 phone numbers that were, according to a consortium of investigative journalists, possible targets for surveillance using the Israeli company NSO Group Ltd.'s Pegasus spyware, apparently not one had a +1 prefix.
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Opinion: The World Should Learn From India's COVID-19 Cataclysm- by Mihir Sharma
In cities at least, India's nightmarish second wave of Covid-19 finally seems to be ebbing. Delhi has brought its test positivity rate below 2% for the first time in two months.
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India Needs Modi To Work With Political Rivals Right Now
As anyone who has tried to invest in India can tell you, India's states are as distinct from each other as European countries.
