According to the 2011 Census of India, the growth rate of the Muslim population was higher than the Hindu population. The controversy surrounding this interpretation obscured that the gap between the two had significantly reduced between 2001 and 2011.
As the government reinstates cereal control policy, record output figures speak a different truth
As plans for holistic development of the Nicobar Islands emerge, environmental concerns should not be ignored
Food as a product is served well by things like GI tags, but food as culture needs a wider lens
The deaths do not point only to administrative failures. They speak of a social welfare deficit.
Following the arrest of Shiv Sena leader, Madhukar Sarpotdar under the NSA, the army was deployed in several sensitive areas across Bombay, on June 24.
They managed to save an iconic, experimental theatre space. In the age of billion-dollar film budgets, it's a worthy French resistance.
The council's moves to ease compliance burden, reduce litigation is welcome. It has much more work to do.
The two countries’ resolve to strengthen connectivity, trade and defence links augurs well for stability in Indian Ocean and wider Indo-Pacific regions.
Some formal bonhomie is likely. But, in realm of actual policies and use of state power, a substantive change is unlikely.
Rainfall deficit in June is likely to be made up. Government should plan ahead, free agriculture from curbs
The Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi, paid a day’s visit to Amritsar city, offered prayers at Harmandar Sahib in the Golden Temple.
The water has just washed away every excuse we women make to deny ourselves the right to unalloyed fun. The guilt of ageism is really on us.
It is hard to understand why Modi, with his ‘mission’ to make India a Vishvaguru again, has done so little to urge his chief ministers to improve government schools in BJP states.
Though attachment to the Ambedkar family lineage still draws the rural masses, the people I have interacted with in political circles and urban voters have expressed dismay over Mayawati and Prakash Ambedkar’s politics and nature of interactions.
The LS elections of 2024 have given an opportunity to both the Treasury and the Opposition to revive the great traditions of Parliament. Not just the form but the substance of a parliamentary democracy.
Dosanjh embodies a Punjabiyat that is less controversial — but no less deep
About 50 per cent of Bihar's workforce is involved in agriculture, which contributes less than 25 per cent of the state's GDP. The big challenge for the state is to reduce the dependency on farms by drawing investments in more productive sectors
‘Chain of Light’ could be a conduit between the past and present, nudging a world riven with conflicts. This is a time when the world needs the Sufi message in Khan’s sublime voice more than ever before
India has the most number of children under the age of five dying due to air pollution. With their their body’s defence mechanisms still relatively weak, exposure to pollution sets them up for ailments like asthma, upper respiratory tract infection, childhood leukaemia and high blood pressure
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi does not rule out the possibility of India having a discussion with Pakistan over arms smuggling.
There are enough studies to back the importance of sleep for such functions as memory formation, processing of ideas and decision-making
Studies have established a correlation between social-media usage and the possibility of mental-health afflictions
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on June 21, 1984, Forty Years Ago.
Cancellation of NET, controversy over NEET, must lead to a larger reckoning. But first, responsibility must be fixed


