India’s improved Doing Business rank puts the spotlight on state and local governments

Court’s contention that reservation trumps merit in higher education admissions masks a deeper malaise

Crusade against beef acquires an unexpected new ally — the World Health Organisation

Bihar’s voters want to discuss governance. So why are star campaigners doing a rewrite?

Punjab is a case study in agricultural and economic mismanagement in India

The arrest of the gangster should be the first step in answering larger questions about India’s crime syndicates

A uniform civil code must draw freely from different personal laws and give primacy to gender equity

The first batch of women officers will start piloting fighter jets by mid-2017. Even though women officers have been flying transport aircraft and helicopters for many years, this goes a step further.

This has provoked a power struggle within the SGPC, as the longstanding hegemony of the increasingly discredited Badal leadership is challenged.

This is a clear break from the approach of successive governments since 1986 under the earlier Ganga Action Plans. The change is welcome.

A portion of jewellery, estimated to be worth Rs 1 crore, which was lost from the Mughal harem immediately after the 1857 mutiny was recovered by the Calcutta police.

The violent conflict that has undermined social order in Iraq and Pakistan would not, we have consistently informed ourselves, touch us.

Blair didn’t say sorry for the armed intervention and the war itself, and defended the removal of Saddam Hussein from power.

The most important structure of the Constitution is parliamentary democracy and Parliament represents the will of the sovereign.

Gandhi said the danger posed by some opposition parties, which prompted the state of emergency, had not passed.

There are certain issues, however, which need be addressed, to make sure that the information commission becomes fully autonomous and thus becomes a constitutional body.

During the visit, the Pakistani side also reportedly handed over dossiers containing “evidence” supporting an alleged Indian hand in violence in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Balochistan and Karachi.

That image can be further enhanced through India offering assistance for capacity-building and training, and expanding its scholarship programmes for African students in India.

Cabinet minister Smriti Irani has a strong hold over her ministry and hence there is little power delegated to either of Irani’s two deputies. Tharoor was fortunate.

The best name for Sehwag is the Great Deflator. No modern batsman could take the wind out of an opening attack — deflate it, in other words — as adeptly as Sehwag.

Instead, all we have talked about since Mohammad Akhlaq’s barbaric murder are the things that have held India back for decades. Old hatreds, old enmities, cultural intolerance and religious violence.

Since last year, when the BJP won, there has been an explosion of subaltern politics. Various events have taken place across the nation reflecting local concerns of ordinary people.

Before 1947, the phrase “neighbouring country” stood for Sri Lanka and, some distance away, Burma. Pakistan and Bangladesh are latter-day neighbours.

India Inc’s financial stress shows no signs of easing, which makes investment revival all that more difficult