The Dhirendra Singh Committee makes a controversial recommendation

... as they wait on the runway for the economic takeoff the Modi government promised but failed to deliver

India does well to revise its approach to international peacekeeping

The first step to revisit immunity for diplomats should be taken by the UNGA

Government’s actions on the commodity reveals it is ignorant of how a market economy is run

A word of advice to fellow young people: an innocuous Facebook post could affect your life in unimaginable ways.

Bhagwat’s sense of timing is terrible coming so close to the Bihar elections. Even so, it is legitimate to raise the question of how long will reservations last.

Shahnawaz Hussain, thanks to being party spokesperson and having been a minister in the Vajpayee government, is well-recognised. Under Modi, the party spokespersons are more visible than a majority of the ministers.

The need for privacy, and the degree of privacy that each citizen desires, are best left to the citizens.

Last year, I was in Madison Gardens and reported in this newspaper that rock stars would be lucky to get the adulation that Modi got, writes Tavleen Singh.

Indian-Americans are in a frenzy yet again over yet another visit to the US by Narendra Modi.

It’s hard to reconcile the oath of ministerial office with what the RSS stands for

Given long and variable lags, unknown base effects, and confounding inflation expectations, can a monetary official ever get a policy action wrong?

Unlike the MDGs, the sustainable development goals have been arrived at via wide consultations among nations big and small

India needs to develop a scientific, progressive teacher-training method

Despite Rajmohan Gandhi’s defence, evidence suggests that M.K. Gandhi sided with the British in subjugating Africans

Awakened to internal disorder, Pakistan seems ready in 2015 to say goodbye to the revisionist nationalism of the 20th century.

With regard to the draft National Encryption Policy, the government’s decision to withdraw the poorly conceived draft in its entirety was the only face-saving course left.

Communities are deprived of livelihood by bans on their traditional arts. Has the elite ever protested?

India is experiencing disinflation, not deflation. It is time to replace the wholesale price index with a producer price index to avoid further confusion.

TV chats work for some politicians. For others, they clearly don’t.

Organiser says that the Congress’s objection to revamping the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) is “more vociferous than their defence of Manmohan Singh’s involvement in the coal scam”.

The NSE complains that an article published on June 19 by Sucheta Dalal and Debashish Basu on moneylife.in is per se defamatory.

India should not have suspended trade talks with the EU. Drama and posturing have their place — in the negotiating room.