Like anti-blasphemy laws across the border, India’s legislation on cow slaughter and protection may have become a tool to harass and intimidate minorities.

India needs to think with its head to exploit opportunities in the US-Pak nuclear negotiations.

Separate personal laws for communities are antithetical to a uniform civil code.

Admiral Ram Tahiliani was a role model for the fraternity of sailors.

In 1999, three members of the Congress did the BJP’s work for it by raising the issue of Sonia Gandhi’s ‘foreign origins’.

They are young, urban and online. They organise efficiently and move swiftly to muzzle dissent.

The statement of Haryana CM may provide yet another god-gifted opportunity to the united opposition to once again put the government in the dock.

High quality and transparent data needed for informed debates.

While the acceptance of the award brings glory to writers, it’s in the returning of it that our collective battles are fought.

Modi knows that the liberati media is gunning for him. Then why give them a beefy opportunity?

The barbarity of Dadri, in which Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched on suspicion that his family had “consumed beef”, continues to dominate the press.

The value of Angus Deaton’s work lies in honing the techniques that go behind the construction of data series used for policy analysis.

The new ism in the city is nationalism.

With Sudheendra Kulkarni’s blackened face, TV news showed us our timewarp.

Mission Indradhanush is a successful intervention in scaling up immunisation for full coverage.

From the beginning, the ICHR has been beholden to the political and historical beliefs of whoever was in power. This aspect of its leadership has not changed.

Men need to be awakened and empowered to change the situation and the “power-based understanding of [the] man-woman relationship has to be discarded”.

Congratulations to the IMD which sounded out the country on below-normal rainfall at 93 per cent of the LPA and then downgraded it to 88 per cent.

The central message of Angus Deaton’s work: Becoming richer is not necessarily the same thing as becoming better-off.

Narendra Modi’s impressive outreach to the neighbours when he took charge of Indian diplomacy in May 2014 has seen some unfortunate stumbles — in the Maldives, Nepal and Pakistan.

The challenge is that different forms of malnutrition — stunting, wasting, overweight, anaemia, low birth weight — exist in almost all populations.

A number of significant disclosures were forced by the RTI, including the information regarding 2G and Commonwealth Games and so on.

As an aspiring world power, India cannot shrug off its responsibility to make its military establishment gender neutral.

A nonstop flight between Bangalore and Silicon Valley is a great idea