BCCI’s new selectors have stoked controversy. Onus is on panel to prove its innocence
An index that ranks performance of countries on health holds important lessons for India.
Instruments aboard Viking II have disclosed that Mars has as much if not more water than the Earth except that it is all frozen in the poles and as subsurface permafrost.
Constitution of monetary policy committee promises an institutional arrangement more transparent, accountable.
Deendayal Upadhyaya transformed the Jana Sangh into a cadre party.
PM Modi’s strategy of escalation vis a vis Pakistan seems like a gamble. But it is not without calculation.
GST is a reform long delayed. But there may be good reason not to hurry it through now.
Dengue and chikungunya can be tackled via swift surveillance, sustained controls.
Letelier’s Chiliean colleagues in Washington, all exiles, pointed an accusing finger at the junta.
AAP and BJP agree: Racing is un-Indian. But no one asked the oldest stakeholders in the game.
Discontent among Marathas in Maharashtra stems from crisis in rural economy. Proposed solutions miss the point.
Pakistan PM’s speech at UN was inflammatory. It points to challenge India must deal with, not be provoked by.
A decade after ‘Prakash Singh’ judgement, police reform remains undone.
A crime touches off building anxieties. Worryingly, agitation for quota has anti-Dalit colour.
The fairy tale ends in tragedy. But amid loud lamentation, the social media mob is already sharpening its claws.
Merging railway, Union budgets is a good idea. But much will depend on the degree of operational autonomy to the railways.
On stalking, there should be no tolerance, authorities must brook no ‘compromise’.
Remember, this is a state where defeat led to even more militarisation and radicalisation; this is a state that is willing to bear the cost of great internal violence, so a little more experience of internal violence will hardly dent it
The results of an educational tour undertaken to Finland to “fix” Delhi government schools are eagerly awaited.
The occasion was celebrated with the two governments making it abundantly clear that they were looking forward to developing “friendly relations of mutual respect with each other”.
Why in a world of a million conflicts, the sound of music plays on.
India and Nepal signal a readiness to move on from past bitterness.
Because in difficult times, decisions cannot be dictated by the grief stricken or outsourced to the hotheads.
The waters of the Nankari and the Damodar, both in unprecedented floods, have inundated most of the underground and open cast mines in Karanpura coal belt as well as some mines in the Kargali area.
At a time when political voices around the world grow smaller, tinnily calling for a closing of borders, the importance of the Emmys grows.


