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The biggest quarterly profit in the history of business

Apple has a big ticket launch in the offing in the form of the Apple Watch which is coming out this April

29 January 2015
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Science
Dozing to Remember

Memory neurons put us to sleep so we can convert short term memories into long term ones

28 January 2015
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The mystery of Sunanda Pushkar’s death

Injury No 10, a puncture mark caused by an injection, has been of interest to all investigators

22 January 2015
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Science
The Cold Contagion

Humans can feel chilly just by seeing someone else experience it

21 January 2015
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World
“They would have died of laughter”

Says Laurent Léger, a Charlie Hebdo journalist who survived the attack on the magazine, of his colleagues who were killed to Open contributor SAMANTHA DE BENDERN who finds in today’s France a threat to national symbols

15 January 2015
Gunmen gesture as they  return to their car after  the attack outside the  offices in Paris of the  French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo (Photo: REUTERS)
World
Dynamic, Chaotic, Fragmented and Still Evolving — And Hard to Fight

For the masses to be mobilised, the violence must be seen as justified. That means choosing the ‘lowest common denominator’

15 January 2015
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh as he stars in MSG
Others
The Dera Sacha Sauda chief

The Dera chief has been accused of rape and murder and of ordering the castration of 400 Dera followers

15 January 2015
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India
An Epic Obsession

Bibek Debroy has completed a ten-volume translation of the Mahabharata in English. Inside the mind of an economist with a difference whose daytime job nowadays is the restructuring of Indian Railways and duties as a permanent member of the recently formed NITI Aayog

14 January 2015
Science-Heartyoptimist
Science
Hearty Optimists

Cheerful people are twice as likely to be in ideal cardiovascular health compared to their pessimistic peers

14 January 2015
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NITI Aayog

The Government claims that the NITI Aayog will bid farewell to the practice of a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to development

08 January 2015

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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