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New vintage car policy to provide relief to owners
The policy is expected to be finalized in a couple of weeks, officials said. As per the rules, four-wheelers beyond a certain age are not allowed to ply on city roads.
Sunday Musings: The Wonder Drug, Fix-it-All !
Gurugram: It was the summer of 1976. We were taking part in a high-level Army exercise in Punjab. Some staff officer with a perverse sense of humour had codenamed the exercise ‘Summer Holiday’. While there was plenty of summer, but…
Proverbially speaking: Lessons on Political Labyrinth
Quotation books are full of advisories concretised into eye-catching single liners. Gullible folks then try to put these to practice, not always getting helpful results. There are occasions when the advice works more effectively when stood…
Infertility: Growing Infertility in Some Regions and Sections of India, One of the Toughest…
Our specialist on public health issues Dr. Naresh Purohit* underlines the negligence in facing the challenge
Sunday Musings: Mind Your Numbers !
London: An average human brain is known to have a finite storage capacity. If one tries to crowd in more bytes, some earlier ones get pushed out.
I have a head for figures. They get permanently lodged in the cranium. And once there, they…
Sunday Musings: The Language of Tender Love
London/Gurgaon: I met Monami in 1991. Her mother was the concierge of the building where we lived in Paris. It was a case of love on sight. I was then a Brigadier nudging fifty and she had just turned three. By some logic she concluded I…
IndiGo’s Rahul Bhatia Visualizes Another Dream Flight
New Delhi: As recently as only couple of weeks ago when India’s leading airline IndiGo inked deal to buy staggering 500 Airbus Planes, Rahul Bhatia, the promoter of Indigo, and his father, Kapil Bhatia were deluged with message of…
Six years of GST: Govt sees higher collections, better compliance
The focus on technology as an enabler for easing out compliance, transparency and auditing has made GST one of the landmark tax reforms in our country.
Sunday Musings: ‘From Zenith to Zilch’
On the Kapil Sharma show recently, well-known celebrity Mrs. Sudha Murthy impishly advised ladies to always keep some money, hidden from their spouses. I believe she didn’t need to. Hoarding money secretly is every housewife’s natural…
Sunday Musings: ‘The Telephone Call’
Gurgaon: The wife had gone away for a month to see meet parents in Delhi leaving the daughter in my care in Paris. She left detailed written instructions for running the house that we followed meticulously and did fine.
One day while…
Sunday Musings: Travelling with God !
I enjoy travelling. It is a great opportunity to make new friends. Some of my close acquaintances have been struck on wheels and wings. Many of these, spreading across the globe, are part of my contact list.
I was flying from Delhi to…
The Common Man: Ek Duvidha, Ek Khoj
Gurugram: “Who is a common man?” the wife asked. Prima facie, it was a strange question from someone who regularly reads the newspapers and watches TV. I felt sorry for Late RK Laxman.
Having held many teaching assignments during my…
Why Catholic-Protestant churches burying their differences !
New Delhi: As the Christmas is not far away and All Souls Day was recently observed in India and other parts of the world by Christians, the efforts to bury the differences between Catholic and Protestants so that they can work for the…
किसने लिखी थी महात्मा गांधी की सर्वश्रेष्ठ जीवनी, जिसे पढ़कर दुनिया ने उन्हें जाना
(विवेक शुक्ला वरिष्ठ पत्रकार, की कलम से )
कनॉट प्लेस की सेंट्रल न्यूज एजेंसी (सीएनए) के एक सेल्समैन बता रहे थे कि भले ही अब बहुत से शब्दों के शैदाई किताबें ऑनलाइन मंगवा रहे हों, फिर भी उनके पास लगातार अमेरिकी लेखक लुईस फिशर की कलम से…
Most People Consume Plastics on a Daily Basis
New Delhi: Discarded plastic — both large and microscopic — circles the globe, choking our oceans and harming wildlife, ultimately finding its way onto your plate and into your body, where it can accumulate over time. A number of studies…
“देश की मानवाधिकार बिरादरी से जनता का विश्वास उठ गया है।”
New Delhi: तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ बेनकाब हो चुकी हैं। गुजरात दंगों पर एहसान जाफरी की पत्नी जाकिया जाफरी की याचिका सुप्रीम कोर्ट में खारिज होने के अगले दिन गुजरात एटीएस की टीम मुंबई में तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ के घर पहुंची। तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ पर…
June 25,1975, The Day of Emergency, and India Story Beyond!
New Delhi: Notwithstanding the fact that the sun was on fire in national capital, yet the massive Ramlila Ground had no space left even before the start of historic rally. That was June 25, 1975 and it was…