Express Opinion

Party machine has to be aggressively geared up for the election. It needs centralised inspiration, but decentralised initiative.

Recent MHA notification authorising surveillance powers for 10 agencies points to asymmetries and loopholes in law and policy on privacy.

Cancellation of Indian History Congress used to be occasioned only by emergencies

Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Imran Khan are well-placed for transforming relations between their countries

Pujara stands apart from his contemporaries and it is good for his team that he does

Congress agitation on ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’ is a self goal. It needs to restrain overzealous partymen

As Bangladesh goes to polls again, choice is not tidy. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, a good friend to India, has been a polarising leader at home

The All India Muslim conference resolved that in case an amendment restoring the minority, autonomous and democratic character of Aligarh university was not passed, a “peaceful and constitutional country-wide agitation” would be launched.

2018 will be remembered as a cusp in the culture of communications, when public faith was withdrawn from large digital corporates and privacy became an overarching concern.

Secretaries to the Government of India are playing evolving, increasingly multi-dimensional, roles.

The possibility that Aadhaar numbers can be misused is not theoretical

During PM Lotay Tshering’s India trip, Bhutan’s priority will be to negotiate a fair tariff for hydropower, expand trade ties with New Delhi.

In recent times both BJP (around election time in UP and Maharashtra) and Congress (in Punjab, and now Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh) have rushed to the fire of farmer wrath with wild schemes of bank

Based on long personal experience of New Year’s Eve, Vadodara police tell it like it is

Biren Singh government’s detention of a journalist under the NSA is a case of gross misuse of state power

Mining tragedy shines the light on unscientific coal extraction in Meghalaya. Government must urgently address the problem

The strike call has been given by the All India Bank Employees Association and the Indian National Bank Employees Association and the Indian National Bank Employees Congress.

Roznama Rashtriya Sahara on December 25 mounts a defence of the alliances being mulled over by various political actors.

Correcting falsehood and bigotry in school textbooks should be a priority in Rajasthan

As global circumstances change, the role of the state will have to come again into contention. The nature of this debate will be very different from 1991, even though our intellectual habits are still framed

Trump violates the spirit of Christmas, but proves beyond doubt that he is not an infant.

Student suicides in Navodaya schools raise serious questions. HRD ministry must urgently appoint counsellors.

How the party deals with its restive NDA allies could set the tone of the political face-off in 2019.

Assembly election results give Congress confidence, set up battle for 2019.

The Lok Sabha had on December 19 expelled her and ordered her imprisonment till the prorogation of the House, for committing a breach of privilege and contempt of the House.