The custom fails even on scriptural grounds. India must scrap the practice, as many Muslim nations have done

The Centre’s notification on slaughter cattle trade will undermine multiple businesses. It must go

The prime minister, Morarji Desai, has no house of his own. Nor does he own any land — agricultural or non-agricultural. Desai and his brothers inherited a house in Bulsar. At his suggestion, the brothers donated it to a girls’ school.

PM Modi did well to reaffirm India’s strategic partnerships with Russia and France. The new global imperatives call for it.

Thousands of crores are supposed to have been saved in this massive anti-corruption drive, but not a single criminal case has been filed. It is delusional to celebrate the Aadhaar tidal wave, and criminal to turn a blind eye to hard facts about exclusion.

Government must address EC’s concerns about recent amendments to laws that govern political finance. One of the main contentions of the EC has to do with a proviso that exempts political parties from disclosing donations received from electoral bonds.

The common narrative holds that you get a good score, which gets you a good college, which in turn brings distinguished professors, intelligent peers and a world of opportunity — essential stepping stones towards the fulfillment of, it would seem, any conceivable dream.

The five-judge bench of the Lahore High Court ruled invalid a constitutional amendment which took away the power of the judiciary to question imposing martial law. 

US’s new visa questionnaire provides the thrill of a criminal interrogation to law-abiding applicants

Ramachandra Guha’s resignation from cricket administration flags important concerns. It may not be enough

In reneging on the Paris Agreement, Donald Trump’s America has ceded the bully pulpit on climate change

Why abolishing triple talaq is critical to creating a New India

As US withdraws from the Paris pact, it’s time the world recognised the real climate leaders

Sources said the CBI had evidence giving rise to suspicions that the film was burnt at the Maruti premises sometime in the middle of last year.

Priyanka Chopra is trolled for her outfit at meeting with PM Modi, but the joke’s on the other foot

Now Rajasthan High Court joins an increasingly bizarre public conversation, does itself no favours

Growth figures frame economic deceleration. Monetary stimulus via a cut in interest rates by the RBI will help

... is making people suddenly skittish, shrinking the space in the school

Those who invoke Israeli army example in J&K must educate themselves about its code of ethics

Desai clarified that nationals and multinationals would be invited to invest only in those industries which could not be established by the public sector

Dear reader, we were there before Trump. This is the dummy headline used for years by the edit page designers

CM must ask Minister Gurjit Singh to step down in order to ensure a fair probe into allegations of corruption against him

Current turmoil in Eurasian politics demands that India and Germany reconnect. The ball is in India’s court

GM mustard exposes our double standards when it comes to technology for farmers