New crop insurance scheme is welcome. Its litmus test: Whether crop-damage assessment can be done within two weeks of the extreme weather event and compensation paid a week after that
Make it creative, encourage risk-taking and expand the idea of success
The most worrying failure of Modi’s first two years as PM has been the absence of job creation. So possibly, the most important thing he can do this year is find out why more jobs are not being created.
BJP government has faced an unprecedented Opposition for reasons which are well known. The Prime Minister has to show that much has been done and more will be done.
Ms Haley is Indian-American, and Christian, and a political star.
Justice R M Lodha in his report suggesting reforms for the BCCI, recommended that ministers and government servants be kept out of the administration of the sports body.
While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy with Pakistan could be.
One view has been that the local police should have reacted faster and, at any rate, must improve their capacity to meet such an attack in future.
That is, one could either lose every rupee invested or gain multiples of it. One of the recipients of our money was a venture-capital fund that also counts Iconiq Capital as a co-investor.
The Israeli media had welcomed her appointment in 2014, citing her successful tenure as the chairperson of the Indo-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2006-09.
Going by the statements in Parliament and before the media, the Indian commerce minister seemed satisfied with the outcome.
To calm its allies, the US stepped up its presence, while Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made significant strides in building strategic partnerships with the Philippines and Vietnam.
He entertained India for 15 years, none of it rejected by his Pakistani fans, and became a Bollywood success like many Muslim stars there.
That the assailant’s husband recorded the incident on CCTV, and allowed it to be shared with the entire world via the internet and television, perhaps deserves sociological analysis.
The ministry of labour is to require all establishments with 30 women workers or 50 total workers to provide crèche facilities for their employees, either at the premises or within half a kilometre.
This practice is now defined as a crime against humanity. Its techniques of violence persist in recent and ongoing wars such as in Bosnia and Nigeria.
Mudra is a redesign of policy in order to re-target the audience, restructure processes and, most importantly, rejuvenate the mission of lending to the small, poor budding entrepreneur.
Perhaps 2016, hopefully, will see the beginning of a redress of the problems faced by museums and other stakeholders of culture.
Post-Pathankot, Washington must remember India-Pak ties improve when it refuses to intercede
Akhand Bharat is a mainstay of Hindu nationalism — because land plays a key role in its ideology.
Freeing caged birds is not justice. We need to phase out bird trade
Sheikh Abdullah saw it as the best solution to the Kashmir issue, but Field Marshal Ayub Khan didn’t
At Pathankot, lessons unlearnt from 26/11, and mistakes repeated, albeit on a smaller scale
If Indian and Pakistani leaders pass this test, they can go much further


