It is time to start training a diplomatic cadre to operationalise 'blue diplomacy'.
The cover story in the Organiser examines the current temple entry movements and says that a “temple is a symbol of man’s gratitude towards God”.
Merely rescuing the banking system from the existing emergency will only clear the way to the next one. Policy should go into causal factors.
A single number for a company — the unique enterprise number — is a welcome ease-of-doing-business intervention.
SP projects the former as a development icon, the latter plays on caste.
International fleet review was a reminder of India’s naval imperative and the need to acknowledge it.
For the health, dignity and safety of women in slums, a comprehensive policy for the maintenance and construction of public toilets is needed.
With the Supreme Court now lies the power not just to set right the Section 377 wrong, but to recognise another fundamental right
PM Oli has been lucky, but his political survival looks uncertain
Existing regime of film censorship is unconstitutional and violative of the right to freedom of speech and expression. The proposed revamp has a limited remit.
If Modi continues to adopt policies reminiscent of Indira Gandhi’s ‘ghareebi hatao’ days, he will end up betraying the mandate he was given.
The victory of the Mahagathbandhan (MGB) in Bihar is colouring the hopes and strategies in this year’s elections.
Indians need to take drastic action to end racism against black Africans. We can’t be behaving like animals toward foreigners in our country.
In his biography The Z Factor, television mogul Subhash Chandra has been extraordinarily candid about his past.
MGNREGA was never about “digging pits”; nor is it a “monument to failure”. As Mr Modi has made a meal of his words, the time has come to convert the programme into one that will create “durable assets” and become a “monument to social justice”
As Sushma Swaraj visits Sri Lanka, India should invest its diplomatic capital in finding a constitutional solution.
Male-dominated ‘places of worship’ are, in fact, places where god doesn’t reside.
The poverty debate in India needs to focus more on helping the poor, than projecting a bleeding heart at their plight.
The Jamaat-e-Islami’s Daawat writes on February 1: “Once the Central government (the former UPA dispensation) took a stand on the minority character of the Aligarh Muslim University and submitted it before the court, the law should have taken its course.
What a boring, colourless society we would turn into if we cannot celebrate our quirks and poke a little innocent fun at one another.
Mehbooba Mufti has held out CBMs for the BJP-PDP coalition to agree on. BJP must seize the opening.
Pahlaj Nihalani would have given TV shows on Section 377 an ‘A’.
The record of the intervention of Central Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and the HRD ministry raises doubts about Apparao’s role in awarding the punishment.
ICDS, the primary scheme targeting malnutrition, needs to be broadened with the help of the National Nutrition Mission.
Although there can be genuine concerns regarding the space for women in religious matters, the arguments of “rationalist protesters” in support of defying tradition are wrong as this is “a matter of faith”.







