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Milk price hike to affect common man

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  • 2026-10-08 --

Karnataka’s Cabinet has approved a proposal to increase Nandini milk prices by ?8 a litre, setting the stage for another sharp retail price revision, likely to hit the common man.

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House-ownership unaffordable in Bengaluru

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  • 2026-10-06 --

Owning a home in Bengaluru is turning into the pursuit of a mirage. Not that it was any easy even earlier. But with land cost rising and cost of construction materials shooting through the roof, th Read more...

SIR Worries Gaining Legitimacy

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  • 2026-10-03 --

There are ample indications by now that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by the Central Election Commission (CEC) has been a fraudulent and farcical exercise focused at excluding names of the v Read more...

B'luru a unique opportunity for the wellness industry to exploit

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  • 2026-10-02 --

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The wellness industry, which comprises several components including gyms, beauty products, nutrition and spas, has one dubious component: dietary supplements, w Read more...

MRPL blast: Focus on safety at high pressure facilities

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  • 2026-10-01 --

One contract worker was killed and nine others injured following an incident at the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL) facility at Jokatte near Mangaluru on Wednesday afternoon. The Read more...

Trump-Xi summit: What it means for India

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  • 2026-09-28 --

The presidents of the world’s two largest economies, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, met at a three-day high-stakes summit in Washington from September 23. It was replete with symbolism: a rare Read more...

Time for a bold health label

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  • 2026-10-07 --

After a four-year-long process of trying to determine what kind of labelling can best inform consumers about the health profile of the packaged food they buy, the Supreme Court has reserved orders Read more...

Rethinking Aviation Safety

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  • 2026-10-05 --

The details of the nightmarish scenario inside the cockpit of Flydubai flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv on September 30, when co-pilot Hamam al Hammami stabbed pilot Smit Machchhar, are still n Read more...

India must stop playing not to loseIndia must stop playing not to lose

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  • 2026-10-02 --

For Indian football, the most encouraging feature of the 1-1 draw with Panama was not the scoreline. It was the audacity behind it. Against a team ranked 94 places higher and containing 12 players Read more...

Removing CEC is not easy

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  • 2026-10-01 --

As the momentum gathers for the united op position campaign to remove CEC Gyanesh Kumar from the post, there are reality checks which must be looked into. To begin with, the opposition needs two-th Read more...

Impartiality is key to elections

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  • 2026-09-29 --

The Election Commission’s two written responses and the photograph of bonhomie among its three members have done little to answer the questions raised by a recent newspaper report. The report Read more...

CEC must quit. SIR ‘clean-up’ needs audit

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  • 2026-09-26 --

The media expose of the ongoing SIR exercise, causing a rupture of consensus within the Election Commission has confirmed a lot of apprehensions about the process being an exclusionary exercise. Th Read more...