Express Opinion

But the World Bank numbers, based on new methodology, should be viewed with caution.

Why would those with PhDs apply for grade IV jobs? It is doubtful that many are under the illusion that PhDs awarded at Indian universities count for something.

PM talks of ‘Digital India’. It will be meaningless so long as ‘Democratic India’ is fearful and in pain.

After another mass shooting in Oregon, Obama trades weary resignation for anger. Can it work?

Neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor Chancellor Angela Merkel may have heard of the “Hindu-German conspiracy”.

New BCCI president has spoken well. Now he must act on his promises.

Delhi lost the window of opportunity to avoid an outbreak because of a governance deficit; first because the state was in election mode and then because of the AAP’s internal squabbles.

By giving up their power to decide their own salaries, Delhi MLAs set an example.

Acceptance of failure must accompany all risk-taking and entrepreneurship. It is generally absent in India.

The state-sponsored celebrations to welcome the constitution were cut short and anti-India rhetoric and protests have now become routine.

Sonia declared that she would canvass for the Congress in the parliamentary polls due in March 1998, even though she had tersely refused to do so two years earlier.

Statistics confirm that the criminal justice system is inefficient, and prejudiced against minorities and poor.

A conservation strategy that ignores the interests of cultivators and rearers, and relies on religious taboo, is dangerous.

The needle of change must be shifted more sharply, democracy is not an acceptable cover for non-performance

Would it be possible for the honourable court to tell them that as there is a backlog of 3.5 crore cases, they go to the back of the queue?

A casualty could be Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu. He was handpicked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, although he was technically in the Shiv Sena.

The cut in the repo rate is not the end of policy making; it gives the Government an opportunity to take bold decisions.

The murder of Mohammad Akhlaq shows up India in all its ugliness.

Akhlaq’s death was foretold from the moment Bharatiya Janata Party chief ministers started banning meat on the excuse of festivals during which it has never been banned before.

Since the Zurich raid, the US Department of Justice has indicted 14 current and former Fifa officials and associates on charges of “rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted” corruption.

Since assuming power last year, this government has sent mixed signals on its commitment to protect India’s ecological interests.

Kamaraj was Congress president when Nehru died and was instrumental in choosing Lal Bahadur Shastri as Nehru’s successor and, later, Indira Gandhi as PM.

The NSA-level talks India and Pakistan agreed to hold in September were called off because New Delhi balked at the prospect of a meeting between Kashmiri separatists and the Pakistani PM’s special envoy, Sartaj Aziz.

Long gone are the vestiges of the Cold War-era shunning of India by West Germany, which, as a faithful US ally, saw India as a Soviet satellite.

More needs to be done to reduce the delay in interest rate transmission in India.