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It will take years to wash away filth left behind by Communists -
Mamata Banerjee, CM, West Bengal, Economic Times
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee says her government will pursue Expressions of Interest worth over Rs. 95,000 crore received from business houses, to "take Bengal forward from hope to reality" in her second year in office. In her first interview with the Indian media since completing her tumultuous first year, she talks to Basistha Basu about her plan to turn around the state, her penchant for staying in headlines for all the wrong reasons and more.
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Racial factors are not causing white flight -
Prof. Eric Kaufmann, Birkbeck College, London, Times of India
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The mathematician who could be a movie star -
Yitang Zhang, Chinese mathematician, Mint
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Board’s reputation is the mud -
AC Muthiah, Former BCCI President, Hindu
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China’s Ramanujan finds prime number gap -
Yitang Zhang, Chinese mathematician, Hindu
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Long on promises, short on deliverance -
Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal CM, Pioneer
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Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments -
Jaron Lanier, Nieman Journalism Lab
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'We have killed the economy, not just oil firms' -
Kirit Parikh, economist, Times of India
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Our capacity to put up with corruption was going beyond bounds. Now the line has been drawn -
Vinod Rai, Comptroller and Auditor General, India, Times of India
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Nitish Kumar is a toy in the hands of RSS -
Lalu Prasad Yadav, Former CM, Bihar, Hindustan Times
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A very sharif Nawaz -
Nawaz Sharif, Hindustan Times
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‘A really serious playwright’ -
Girish Karnad, Hindu
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He blew the whistle on Ranbaxy -
Dinesh Thakur, Times of India
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“This is because one person has too much clout” -
Lalit Modi, Outlook India
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Crash landing -
Gorur Ramaswamy Gopinath, BusinessStandard
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I've always stuck to mandate -
Vinod Rai, Comptroller and Auditor General, India, Economic Times
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The boy who never grew up -
S Sreesanth, Hindu
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I was taken aback by Professor Amartya Sen's comments on Food Bill -
Arvind Panagariya, Economic Times
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Government has brought the whole industry on its knees -
Girish Shirodkar, Mint
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From fashion to AirAsia, Chandilya takes a flying leap -
Mittu Chandilya, AirAsia India CEO, Financial Express
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The Internet destroyed the middle class -
Jaron Lanier, Salon
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Pakistan’s comeback kid -
Nawaz Sharif, Brookings
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The man who blew the whistle and walked away with $49 mn -
Dinesh Thakur, Business Standard
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Most ministers including PM linked with financial scams -
Varun Gandhi, Economic Times
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We will not allow Kargil, 26/11, terror from Pak soil -
Nawaz Sharif, Hindustan Times
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‘We have a lot of love for India’ -
Nawaz Sharif, Hindu
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 When television news anchor Rahul Kanwal got through to Srinivasan and asked him about Meiyappan’s arrest, the BCCI president reacted with thuggish belligerence: 'Shut up, just shut up. I will fix the whole lot of you.' It’s amusing, of course, that “fixing” appears to be uppermost on Srinivasan’s mind even at this stage.This IPL series has shown up the carnival to be a can of worms and India’s cricket administration to be rotten at its core. As a first step towards fixing it over the long haul, Srinivasan and his political patron and IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla should be made to resign, and the Chennai Super Kings team disqualified.
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Split with Nitish will only boost BJP in Bihar -
K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
WITH THE BJP seemingly decided on projecting Narendra Modi as its PM candidate and its close ally Nitish Kumar of JD(U) equally firm in his opposition to the idea, a split in the NDA alliance looks inevitable; most observers think it’s not a question of if, but when. |
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