Opinion & Edits

Nitish Kumar will go down in posterity as a self-serving and power-seeking leader

Pakistan's recall of its Chess Olympiad team is a self-goal

Death penalty for rape: Both Ashok Gehlot and his critics miss the point

State-level OBC groups must be included in central list

Cricket euphoria

After long,the balance in the Pakistani press has tipped towards good news. Courtesy,Pakistan’s victory in the World T20 championship…

Statistics over stories

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme,more popularly known as NREGA,has come under sharp focus since….

Anchors and four curious cases

BBC is a good place to turn to if you want news TV interpretation of death of icons.

The roots of corruption

The Supreme Court has refused to stay an Allahabad high court order threatening to initiate contempt of court proceedings…..

Wiping the slate clean

The new government has before it a list of education agenda items that it must consider early in its tenure to…

Pointless journey

It’s a land of azure blue water and off-white sand,of a journey to find India that ended with the discovery…

Red threat

The editorial in the latest issue of Organiser titled “Maoists are enemies of the nation. Crush them” says: “The recent spurt of Maoist violence in Bihar…

Only option?

The impact of banning the Maoists may well be limited as they can resurface through….

Turn the page

In a closed-door meeting with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee ahead of the Union Budget for 2009-10,Anand Mahindra…

The Kutumbh and the Energy Dividend

The Europeans have a strong tradition of geography and look at many imponderables from the angle of physical space and environment.

Private virtues,public vices

The economy is more affected by spread of rains across region and time,rather than aggregate precipitation.

Lalgarh violence

Without naming the Trinamool Congress,the lead editorial in the latest issue of CPI(M) mouthpiece People’s Democracy…

Don’t abandon us this time around

After the debacle of Vietnam,the United States could pack up and leave with minimal consequences for its genuine national…

Af-Pak Review

The visit of the US National Security Adviser,James Jones…

Epidemic sans frontieres

As of June 17,88 countries have officially reported 39,620 cases of influenza A (H1N1) infection,also known as swine flu.

Head-on

The unending turmoil in the BJP is symptomatic of all parties when they lose elections.

Level playing roads

In the ’90s,the government took the decision not to play around with the overall tax rates in every budget…

Revealed by Lalgarh

The Lalgarh standoff and election results demonstrate that the national security and economic security views…

20-20 vision

Wouldn’t the Pakistanis have just loved to watch our news channels last weekend? After more than six months…

Learning the wrong lessons

The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government seems to be in a hurry to completely overhaul the education system….

IRAN’S KING MAKERS

The victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over reformist Mir-Hossein Moussavi in the recent Iranian presidential elections has set the country ablaze….

Farewell,Maestro

Sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan was a colossus of Indian classical music.

What’s technical about it?

There are legitimate expectations that the human resource development ministry will now deliver….

Look beyond

The outcome of the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections has been hailed as a triumph of secular forces.