That politicians make strange bedfellows is evident from the RJD-JD(U)-Congress alliance for the upcoming Bihar polls.

Attempts to impose an illiberal social agenda on a young and consumerist society will fail.

For now, Bangladeshi sceptics are silent. But Delhi and Dhaka will soon need to take stock of the unanswered questions and necessary follow-up measures for the agreements signed.

India’s inward economic orientation and preoccupation with the troubled land borders in the north and northwest resulted in Delhi neglecting its maritime frontiers.

The Handlooms (Reservation of Articles for Production) Act, 1985, is impractical unless it is properly implemented.

To improve the educational status of Scheduled Castes, a fresh understanding of their achievements and challenges is necessary.

That CM Mamata Banerjee is accompanying the PM on his tour is a positive sign.

Mujeeb Rizvi was a scholar-teacher who fought the pundits and the bigots

As Nitish, Lalu dig in their heels, anti-BJP front in Bihar will depend on Congress breaking the ice

It is agricultural reform. Without focus on agri GDP and a sectoral overhaul, ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ will remain a slogan

Government is in denial about rural and farmers’ distress.

The key to Bobby Jindal is to grasp early, and clearly, that he’s not Indian. He’s said as much, avowing in public that he doesn’t wish to be regarded as “Indian-American”.

Has Devendra Fadnavis thought what foreign investors will make of a city in which children are jailed on the pretext of taking them into state care?

The government has set up a task force to study and put forward an authoritative account of Ballabhbhai Patel’s achievements, most notably his integration of the princely states.

Why are many of the sports so badly governed?

Sharing Teesta waters without cultivating the potential in upper riparian land will be unjust to West Bengal.

PM Narendra Modi is set to hold talks with Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka.

States must institutionalise land reconstitution. They could learn how to do it from Gujarat.

The Supreme Court has categorically banned Salwa Judum under any name.

The kidnapping of Warren Weinstein, later killed by a US drone, is part of a spreading pattern in Pakistan.

A muslim boy denied job, a muslim girl denied flat - what is the Urdu Press take on this?

Sepp Blatter’s resignation is only a first step. There is a long way to go

A realignment of loyalties of militants is afoot. Kabul and the region must not be complacent.

A tussle is on between El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole. Government cannot afford to be a bystander.