As India walks a fine line with Iran and Saudi Arabia, it must seek reconciliation between them too.

Nationalists in Beijing and Delhi have trouble coming to terms with Americans of Chinese and Indian origin.

The factors that led to the breeding of distrust must urgently be identified and rectified.

Protests show that invoking Chavez’s ghost can’t paper over the governance deficit in Venezuela.

Paswan’s return to the NDA fold could have an impact disproportionate to the LJP’s political weight.

Subrata Roy’s arrest brings the saga of a firm making a mockery of the law to a welcome close.

Navy crisis was allowed to boil over. Defence minister left it too late to make a new beginning.

The new prime minister has his work cut out to fix the country’s economy.

Don’t ban opinion polls. If polling industry cares about sustainability, it will adopt best practices.

Madras High Court controversy underlines the need for greater transparency in judicial appointments.

Parties need to evolve a new vocabulary for a young, demanding demographic.

There’s no sugar-coating it: this election season, some politicians could get just desserts.

Home minister must know that threats to ‘crush’ media won’t make bad news go away.

The ordinance route to fighting corruption is paved with self-serving intentions.

Kiev’s new rulers must not repeat with the east the mistakes Yanukovich made with the west.

G-20 is right to say cooperation and reforms are the way forward. But difficult choices lie ahead.

The Konan Poshpora limbo is a symbol of the state’s failure to consolidate peace in J&K.

IT IS heartening to learn of the Election Commission’s recommendation (‘EC to parties: Don’t just promise, explain how they will be fulfilled’, IE, February 21) to political parties that they make only such promises to voters that can be fulfilled. The decision taken by the EC is quite admirable, considering the umpteen promises political parties […]

ASI and Google’s virtual tours of Indian heritage sites bring us closer to our history

Maharashtra’s housing regulator is welcome. Also needed: faster clearances, bringing sector under GST

An inquiry must be set up to probe how civil-military relations became precarious on UPA 2’s watch

A coal regulator without statutory backing will not be able to make a dent in irregular allocations

The law for street vendors could help bring a welcome break from town planning from on high

EC should refrain from monitoring manifestos and leave it to voters to judge a party’s sincerity

Excerpts from outgoing Rajya Sabha MP N.K. Singh’s farewell speech on February 18