Apple woos India, govt must make the right moves

Mr Cook's voyage

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Crime and punishment

Behind the history

The Global New Car Assessment Programme, or Global NCAP, which carries out tests on the safety of motor vehicles, has said that five Indian cars are unsafe for passengers: Maruti Suzuki's Celerio and Eeco, Hyundai's Eon, Mahindra & Mahindra's Scorpio and Renault's Kwid. All the cars were assigned zero stars by Global NCAP for adult safety, though each got one or two stars (out of five) for child safety. Apart from faulty body structure, most didn't have airbags, which made them unsafe for occupants - though one variant of the Kwid which had an airbag for the driver too scored zero on adult safety. However, the Toyota Etios, with two airbags, got four stars for adult safety. Clearly, these cars need to be fitted with at least two airbags to render them safe.Some of the affected companies have said that such a result was bound to happen because these models had no airbags. Mahindra & Mahindra said that 75 per cent of the buyers of the Scorpio prefer the variant with airbags. But

Unsafe vehicles

Congress chastened, BJP wins, and a more federal polity

The post-election map

Bank consolidation needs supportive reform

Moving forward on mergers

New intellectual property rights policy a step forward

Meeting halfway

Like CBI, NIA's independence is open to question

Another caged parrot?

Manifest risks to national security should spur quick decisions

Security risks from delay

Geospatial Bill needs to be rewritten from scratch

Map licence raj?

FM takes realistic view of govt policy agenda

Low-hanging fruit

Govt accomplishes much in two years, but more remains

Work in progress

Water harvesting needs attention, not just irrigation

A drought solution

The significance of US president's Japan visit

Messages from Hiroshima

Call drop penalty was never the right solution

Improve telecom infra

Draft Bill on passive euthanasia is progressive

The right to die

'Mauritius route' ends

After President's rule

PM Modi's diplomacy yet to match the level of breakthrough diplomacy as achieved by Dr Manmohan Singh

Mr Modi's high-profile diplomacy not matched by substance

Questions about PM's education should now end

A bogus controversy

Draft norms for unmanned aerial vehicles are draconian

Stifling drones

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