Even as institutions fail, India’s youth will not be held back. They are charging ahead, driven by the desire to make a difference.

The recent debate about the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act demands that changes must be seen in this context.

An AAP MLA featured in a sex tape. Rahul’s UP yatra began on a chaotic note.

The fourth phase of India’s engagement with the East is overdue.

The sharp increase in nominal growth is welcome: It signals improvement in underlying real economic activity, holds out hope for the health of the corporate and banking sectors.

Those exiled from their villages have endured two bleak winters in makeshift camps. By the third year, this expulsion from their homelands has become permanent.

During “Janmashtami procession, communists depicted their perverted mindset by using the occasion to instigate communal tensions,” it says, the editorial in Organiser.

Pakistan has vowed to get rid of its armed militias, but they aren’t leaving quietly.

In India today, Hindutva ideology and chauvinist nationalism are used to polarise the people on communal lines and to attack religious minorities.

Yunus Jaffrey made Persian literature accessible to generations of scholars.

With Chinese influence growing in the subcontinent, India needs greater engagement with the big powers.

The RSS and CPI were founded in the same year, 1925, but somehow the RSS has waxed while the CPI has waned.

Indian journalists were told to report for US Secretary of State John Kerry’s press conference at Jawaharlal Nehru Bhawan at 3 pm, even though the interaction began at 6 pm.

The question is how likely is it that India will call upon the US to provide logistics support? How often is an Indian long-range vessel (we have one aircraft carrier) likely to visit a US port?

The state’s experiments in nurturing sporting talent could be an example for a country trying to get over its Olympic disappointment

Criminal defamation is inherently tilted in favour of the state, big business and powerful persons — and against the citizen

On India-US military pact, defence ministry and sceptics talk past each other

Delhi government is trying to mend an education system broken by vested interests and years of neglect the Congress presided over.

Both the Modi and Mehbooba governments need to win each other’s confidence and jointly try to heal the wounds of the Kashmiri people.

The canonisation of Mother Teresa is a moment to remember and celebrate her unbounded compassion.

A Jain monk being called to address the Haryana Vidhan Sabha is a first. It raises issues of propriety and sanctity — and constitutional questions.

Ramdev is a major TV advertiser. He also makes news.

Unlicensed and illegal slaughterhouses present a municipal governance problem.

It points out that “the Bharatiya team’s chief medical officer wasn’t a specialist in sports medicine”, but was “a radiologist”.