Rahul Gandhi indicated a new resolve in Parliament, but his ability to make friends will show if he has a new politics.

Patient shelters must become part of urban infrastructure.

Indifference to facts has become a cultural phenomenon. Media, politicians must take the blame.

Literature forewarns of pitfalls of easy judgements. Manchester University protests against Kipling miss the point.

Desai said he had been informed that the chief minister was appointing a retired high court Judge to probe the Agra incidents.

Nawaz Sharif had the opportunity to scrap the law that has landed him in prison.

For second time, search giant is fined by European regulators for misusing its dominance in search and mobile platforms

Crucial opportunity to bring legislation transforming quality of higher education is lost.

Predatory journals in India highlight a milieu that discourages academia from developing a sound publishing ethic

Bid to tinker with salaries, tenures of information commissioners could erode their autonomy.

Raising procurement prices of kharif crops will only give false hope to farmers.

It seems alien in a world where resentment is not seen as imprisoning, freedom is freedom to hate.

Prime Minister Morarji Desai rejected the demand that he should place before Parliament the correspondence between him and the former home minister, Charan Singh.

POTUS couldn’t have chosen a better forum to advertise that he would, could, will and can. Continuously.

PIL on breastfeeding underlines need to challenge denial of public facilities to women in name of safety and tradition.

Pawar’s Cabinet Sharad Pawar was sworn in as the sixth chief minister of Maharashtra. He will head the first non-Congress ministry in the state. Along with him, five other ministers belonging to the newly formed Progressive Democratic Front (PDF) were also sworn in by Governor Sadiq All. The ministers sworn in were Uttam Rao Patil, […]

Deepening faultlines within the CBI pose serious questions about its ability to take sensitive cases to their just conclusion.

A law for lynching isn’t enough. It recurs due to climate of impunity, political encouragement.

It hides structural oppression of the marginalised, appropriates their protests.

In a fine example of socialism with Chinese characteristics, an ambitious film has been censored by market forces.

THE government has done well to decide to drop the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill in the face of criticism regarding some of the provisions in the proposed law which had stoked fears among deposit holders, leading to anxiety and panic withdrawal of deposits. That the government chose not to pursue it even […]

Kumaraswamy’s job is to govern. Tears and complaints about being victimised do not figure among deliverables

As Trump rearranges US foreign policy, provokes outrage, India must prepare to cope with the consequences

Supreme Court has broken the silence on lynching. It must be heard in letter and spirit