India must prepare for a potential discontinuity in America’s foreign relations.

Banks must look at rural and semi-urban markets to expand their network. They will find a veritable treasure trove.

Dixit had led a street campaign to stop Lokman Singh Karki from being appointed the CIAA chief, calling him “corrupt and unfit” on grounds that a judicial commission had found him guilty.

The presentation concludes with a vision statement that the “way forward” will be linked to the attainment of “sustainable development goals”.

We have little doubt that we will be able to break these wrong traditions and set in motion a new era where women in this country will enter places of worship with their heads held high, not as second-class citizens.

Modi replied tartly that his health was fine thanks to being kept on his toes, fending off the weight of abuses poured on him by the Opposition.

The CJI proposed the idea of a Court of Appeal which would be a beginning of the end of an over-burdened and choked Supreme Court and the restoration of a true Constitutional Court .

If the Prime Minister is serious about fighting corruption, then this defence scandal gives him a real chance to go deeper into the causes of the rot.

The Congress has the problem that it is still furiously in denial about its defeat. On the idea of simultaneous elections, it again stirred up Uttarakhand.

The more interesting question to ask is: Why is the BJP pushing itself so aggressively to appropriate Ambedkar now, and not five or 10 years ago?

Indian software companies can and do patent their inventions abroad, thus actively competing in the market for government monopolies maintained in other countries.

Cervantes had invented two characters, Don Quixote and Sancho, who would become a universal pair representing opposing yet complimentary approaches to the dilemmas of modern existence.

While on the domestic front, what Obama has accomplished is fairly impressive, abroad, his record is mixed, although he did make a studied effort to emerge as a forward-looking world statesman.

In this article, we argue that the actual well-being of the household will be higher than what is indicated by the poverty line, if we take into account public expenditure along with private expenditure.

The Hindu terrorist organisation, Abhinav Bharat, was seen to be involved in the Malegaon blast. Its members were made ‘accused’.

Politicians divided by Agusta unite on odd-even

Constructing HSR lines in the country should be seen as a nation-building exercise rather than a standalone project justified only on transport demand.

Governance in Kerala is superior to that in Bihar. But after that, state rankings are a fraught exercise

Those who pay exorbitant surge prices for buses for 13 days should not object to occasional surge pricing by taxi aggregators.

The editorial in the Organiser comments on the Samjhauta blast and Ishrat Jahan encounter cases and notes that they “are pointing the needle of suspicion towards many prominent actors during the UPA government, who can be called as ‘political fixers’”. It says that “the revelation” that P. Chidambaram had “signed both the affidavits, claiming Ishrat […]

Democracy in India, affirmed through elections, is pushing Muslims to the margins.

Delhi must not let commonsense with Beijing turn into a policy of self-denial with Washington

Putin’s intervention has brought Russia back in a prominent role in the region

NDA has kept its promise to make local self-government more meaningful. Time for states to do their bit