Brexit campaigners claimed these hardships could be mitigated by saving the UK was paying the European Union £ 350 million a week — a figure that gained wide currency, even though it had no basis in fact.

In his report, R.K. Raghav has said that in view of the forthcoming assembly elections in UP the BJP has aroused a false sense of insecurity among the Hindus in order to get their votes in the election.

Surviving officers of the 1953 batch of the Indian Police Service consider Raghuram Rajan as one of their own. When he was appointed governor of the Reserve Bank, we were overjoyed. When he appeared on television to explain his decisions, we listened intently. When his integrity was questioned by the BJP MP Subramanian Swamy, we […]

Despite increasing attacks by Islamist militants, Sheikh Hasina’s government fails to act. Lack of a credible, viable opposition in parliament makes people’s despondency deeper.

Ministers struck awkward poses. If there is maun yoga, let Salman Khan practice it.

The Central Statistical Office has never resorted to deception, nor is it doing so now.

Government’s measures to boost the apparel industry are timely as China’s declining competitiveness provides opportunity for India.

According to Organiser, the “fact” is “the local goons were from the Muslim (not minority, rather excessive local majority of more than 90 per cent) majority community and that they were harassing the traders.”

The relationship between RBI governor and the government has to be healthy, collaborative and mutually respectful.

To deliver potable water for all, urban local bodies must modernise processes, harness technology. They must also recover costs through user charges.

Informalisation of the workforce now extends to the government sector.

Many will list the good things Raghuram Rajan has done at the helm of the RBI. Others will criticise. But for the youth, he created a novel space and owned it.

India’s high-wire NSG diplomacy reveals a new level of self-assurance that can explore the room for accommodation in all directions.

His acute sense of the world he lived in put him among the ‘rarest of the rare’.

NDA’s existing agricultural policies are ill-equipped to achieve the stated goal of doubling them in five years.

In the assassination of British MP Jo Cox, as in too many recent killings, a lethal combination: Mental illness and political extremism

The great strength of the Indic religions is that they do not believe that theirs is the only truth and theirs the only God. This must not change.

No government can pronounce anyone guilty or innocent. No one can declare that Ishrat Jahan and three others were ‘terrorists’.

Novelist Nisar Aziz Butt is one of those who challenged the ideologies invented by men

Willingness to engage with ideas has to come from intellectuals, not political parties

There is an attempt to portray student activism as mere rabble-rousing and as something that affects academics. In fact, it keeps the spirit of questioning alive, and also fights for inclusion

NDA’s frenzied two-year celebrations have been mostly about not owning up that it has not been able to meet expectations.

Legislators must enforce accountability of the executive, exercise oversight. Making them parliamentary secretaries to ministers is bound to curtail their independence.

There is a lingering apprehension among the hill people that the state government would use the bills as a strategic political ploy to gain control over their land.