Delhi government must admit that it erred by appointing MLAs as parliamentary secretaries to ministers.

The communications age is easing human relations, but official self-importance remains unabated.

The country is ready for the GST. The party must give up an obstructionism that is hurting the economy.

Court rightly snubs and cautions CBFC, but the validity of state censorship remains an open question

It’s an old story. Yet the Kairana-Allahabad discrepancy will chase and haunt the party

Hindi and Sanskrit would both be better off if the state stays away

A look at the front page of the Indian Express on June 14, forty years ago.

Enthused by its success in Assam, the BJP is now focused on winning Uttar Pradesh

Europe is an issue that has split Britain’s Labour party. Now it is the turn of the Conservatives

In two years of the Modi government, a vocabulary reconfigured and routinised, that threatens to pit Indian against Indian — till the last election is won.

Bopanna and Paes can either aim darts at each other or play tennis to win.

Liberalism needs to recover the noble lie that ideas are not politics by other means.

It is a reminder for America and the world: The democratic values we cherish require hard work.

Gupta came on an official visit to Islamabad for the home secretaries’ meeting under what was then called the Composite Dialogue

Rampant cross-voting in the Rajya Sabha polls is a warning for all political parties.

The variation in GDP estimates is mainly due to the varying inflation levels being used in calculations.

The fight against malnutrition depends on more than economic growth.

Envoys of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh had suggested a meeting between the prime minister and Asian community leaders to bring about racial harmony.

Changes in the broad framework for investment could provide a much-needed push for infrastructure projects.

As Punjab’s government denies the gravity of the problem, drugs take a growing toll in the once prosperous state.

When Jawarlal Nehru became prime minister, the Cold War had already started and the Americans presumed that as a democracy India would be in their camp.

Grateful politician clients may pay no fee but some nominate them to the Rajya Sabha. The latest to earn a seat thus is Ram Jethmalani, whom Lalu Prasad has agreed to make a member instead of his wife Rabri Devi.

According to said news item, there are plans afoot to build Sanskriti schools across India for the benefit of bureaucrats’ children when their parents get transferred out of Delhi.

The GDP growth number is an approximation of the underlying economic activity. Many economic decisions of the government and private investors are based on that number.