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UP and Delhi ministers sparring over education is politics more welcome and inspiring.

This year, adults too have a wishlist for Christmas — a shot of Covid vaccine among other things.

Government should abide by arbitration panel verdicts in Vodafone and Cairn case and end retrospective taxation.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s popularity transcended political divides.

How many army men, how many militants, how many dead, how many injured, or how many untraceable define the discourse on Kashmir? The statistics have become a benchmark to underline peace or volatility in Kashmir.

The progressive impact of the judgment on victim jurisprudence will certainly be unparalleled.

As such, politics will not be driven by Kashmir versus Delhi fighting for political power. Instead, it will be Jammu versus Kashmir for primacy in decision making or Poonch versus Pulwama for allocations; in other

Not exactly a spring but DDC election results mark a thaw in J&K’s frozen politics, what next is the real test

PM’s speech at AMU strikes many a welcome note. His followers must take heed

Sugathakumari, extraordinary poet, was a moral presence that transcended Kerala’s political divides

Contract workers, who are hired via an intermediary (contractor) and are not on the payrolls of the company on whose shop floors they work, have been at the centre of much dispute over the last

What 2020 has indubitably established is that the US is altered forever and cannot simply pick up from where, as decent people fondly imagine, it veered off, forgetful of its supposed mission to serve as

The extraordinary haste with which the farm bills were pushed through both the Houses has created the present crisis, which can only exacerbate the economic woes caused by the pandemic.

The bandh called by AASU and AAGSP was officially described as peaceful except at Raha and Dhing, in Nowgong district, where police had to use teargas shells and lathicharge the satyagrahis.

Is it a problem if trade is informal, as long as it occurs? Should Pakistan care? Should India care?

Tagore felt that the two institutions could become agents of making Hindus and Muslims realise the truths of each other.

Covid variant must be taken seriously but a year into pandemic, science should guide policy, not alarm bells.

For any of us to wait for some great leader or to keep silent until a unified opposition emerges, is to acquiesce in daily deeds of injustice.

To think that the farmers have been “misled” as part of a “political conspiracy” is perhaps naïve. Perhaps, the key lies in the way the MSP scheme works in certain states, and the way “big”

New electricity rules aim to make discoms accountable to users. Competition, not just regulation, is necessary to achieve this.

There cannot be a three-way election in 2021. That would mean an advantage for BJP, as it will cannibalise on the factionalism in the former and on the irrelevance of the latter.

A politician decided to switch jobs, leaving her husband’s party. No one would care if they were investment bankers.

With the greatest of respect to the Supreme Court, it is time it takes the bull by the horns. It has, for far too long, put on the backburner issues which concern the nation most.

The world wants India to succeed because it is regarded as a benign power wedded to a rule-based order. India can leverage this propitious moment to encourage a significant flow of capital, technology and knowledge

For Indian strategists, the limits of intelligence should mean a greater focus on deterrence strategy