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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

The option of letting a Muslim represent Muslims and giving Asadduddin Owaisi a seat at the Mahagathbandhan table does not seem to have occurred to anyone.

CBI chargesheet indicts UP police in the Hathras rape-murder case; fair probe is the only way to justice

A strong coalition of Asian and European middle powers must now be an indispensable element of the geopolitics of the East. Such a coalition can’t be built overnight. But Delhi could push for a solid

Team India plunges a new low in Australia. But sports tend to forget and forgive.

The manner of the law’s implementation could also lead to an outcome that goes against Hindutva’s aims. Those for whom religious identity never meant much will now be forced to adopt a Muslim identity.

As artistes, it heartens us to learn that this new reality can indeed be enriching. Since restrictions do not exist for a virtual event, it has been surreal for us to see music lovers from

Investment in the secular and modern education of minorities helps the nation in many ways.

Internal tussle in Nepal’s ruling party forces Prime Minister Oli to seek early elections, a vote may not settle the issue.

Traditional redistribution, which aims to deliver on intangibles like health and education, has ceded to a distinctive ‘New Welfarism’, where Centre is demonstrably providing tangible essentials to citizens

Colleges should not be permitted to subsequently arbitrarily change the implications of non-submission of documents in the required format, particularly if they have not reserved the discretion to do so.