Women’s issues are making their way into the political mainstream. Special Delhi Assembly session was a reminder.

Confirmation of the death of Taliban’s last unifying figure could set back the peace process in Afghanistan.

Eleven hundred boats were busy with relief and rescue operations in the four districts with 550 boats had been deployed in Gorakhpur district alone.

RBI misses an opportunity to cut rates. And risks a hardening of stance by the political establishment.

A look at the front page of The Indian Express, published on August 4, Forty Years Ago.

What a Chhattisgarh village can teach on how to wrest ground from Maoists.

His surplus legitimacy is eroding. The Bihar elections offer an opportunity to douse the fire.

Obama’s climate action agenda is the most ambitious by a US president yet. It is not enough.

For a real cleansing, apply conflict of interest rules to cricket’s players as well as to its administrators

Congress must come back to House, ensure that Parliament debates issues of ministerial propriety and conflict of interest.

Bihar’s youngest political party sends out some dispiriting signals ahead of the state’s election.

Justifying the imposition of the Emergency, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, in an interview to Yugoslav journalists, said that “the opportunistic and cynical policies of the opposition parties” had to be “frustrated” to protect democracy, socialism, secularism and non-alignment, the four pillars of India’s state policy. In this context, she said, the support offered to her […]

The essentiality of religious practices is best determined by clergy, not judiciary.

Devolution of funds to states, pruning of Centrally sponsored schemes, need to be thought through

A waning supply shock in an environment of tepid demand affords RBI elbow room to wield the knife.

On 8 out of 10 monetary policy statements or actions, Government and the RBI will be — and in the past, have been — on the same page.

Site was designed to test how television could be used to educate and instruct rural audiences to participate in national development programmes.

Yakub Memon gets all legal protections, and all the tears. The policeman lives and dies unsung.

Attack in Jerusalem is a sobering reminder that in much of the world, including India, it’s not safe to be gay.

Monsoon seems better than expected. But it will take more to relieve the pressure on rural incomes

India and Bangladesh bury a Partition legacy. Now, both countries must focus on trade and connectivity

The concept of wakf for the settler’s limitless generations is archaic.

A look at the front page of The Indian Express, published on July 31, Forty Years Ago.

A debate about representation that is in danger of being reduced to mere muscle-flexing.