Once again the Union Budget disappoints the common man with low income slabs....

Words cannot describe the greatness and genius of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar,his achievements of more than 20 years of international cricket which has earned him the status of “God” and “a living record book”....

Mamata Banerjee has surprised no one because her budget is along predictable lines. She has a simple agenda: to prepare for the West Bengal assembly election....

I’m glad that the home minister has rejected the talks offer by the Maoists as it stands. The Maoists are buoyed by the successes of their attacks in Silda in West Bengal...

To put it bluntly,some members of UPA-II don’t make the country any prouder. For instance,Mamata Banerjee sounds jingoistic...

The Union government’s proposal for an NBS regime on fertilisers is the right step. No doubt political interests didn’t let successive governments take any concrete initiative to cope with fertiliser subsidy....

Suraj Bahadur Thapa’s barbaric killing by Maoists in West Bengal is one of the most moving human stories carried by any newspaper recently....

Almost 15 months after the Mumbai attack,we’ve had another. While one cannot expect the police to be present everywhere,this does point to poor intelligence gathering....

The brutal killing of 24 jawans in their own camp has exposed the lack of preparedness and political will to tackle Naxal violence....

Your editorial ‘Enough is enough’ rightly lambasts the IPL’s decision to not play matches in Hyderabad.

The Pune blast has exposed failures at all levels. The first is the failure to inculcate public awareness.

The bomb blast in Pune was a dastardly act and deserves to be condemned. Admittedly,this doesn’t bode well for the metropolitan city and the nation.

Almost 15 months after the Mumbai attack,we’ve had another (‘Pune terror blast shatters calm after Mumbai 26/11’,IE,February 14)....

In the dock for sugar price and with the cabinet not too pleased with him,Sharad Pawar walked over to the Shiv Sena to buy for himself a little political insurance....

This refers to Dhiraj Nayyar’s ‘Mumbai to Melbourne’ (IE,February 10). There seems to be a similarity between the attacks faced by Indians in Australia and Mumbai....

The proposed establishment of 14 “innovation universities” is a remarkable step. Further,the decision to establish an innovation university in Orissa is satisfying as the state is at the bottom in gross enrolment ratio....

The editorial ‘Pawar failure’ (IE,February 9) rightly cautioned the UPA government on Sharad Pawar’s shenanigans....

Shekhar Gupta’s ‘Goodbye,America’ rightly highlighted the likely exit of the US from Afghanistan.

With reference to the editorial,‘Fauji vs Sena’,I would say that enough is enough. The Sena’s divisive politics is spiralling out of control.

Does the Shiv Sena have a moral right to oppose Australian cricketers playing on Indian soil to protest attacks on Indians in Australia?....

As noted by the writer,the defence establishment needs to take cognisance of this “great new challenge” to our security....

The notion that a state or region especially belongs to its main linguistic group — while the rest are outsiders — is inimical not only to national integration but also to the economy....

This refers to C. Raja Mohan’s idealistic article ‘Towards a grand summit’. His suggestion of a trilateral summit involving India...

The Copenhagen climate deal is a clever betoken of the coming 2010 Mexico Summit where the US and other developed countries may again shuttle their commitment on mandatory carbon intensity cuts....

Mahinda Rajapaksa’s victory has given him the required political legitimacy to address the concerns of the minority Tamils through a genuine devolution of powers....