Opinion

Apart from celebrating with sweets and eulogizing Ambedkar on his birthday, the BSP has failed to develop or provide a vision document about its future course of politics.

Unlike the movement in the early eighties against foreigners, the agitation this time around has been more spontaneous and less organised.

While the matter needs thorough investigation, at first glance the police version of the events has numerous gaps, to say the least, because at the very fundamental level it strains credulity.

Farmers bemoan that the belated decision taken two days ago to import up to 1.2 tonnes of onion from a consortium of countries or onion-producing countries will result in the imported bulbs landing at Indian shores when the farmers will be ready to harves...

In our country, Leftists are quick to dub anybody they don’t like as Nazis, but themselves they try to malign their ideological opponents.

It can be said with some certainty that no punitive action will be taken against a single lawyer caught on camera openly indulging in vandalism, arson or assaulting policemen.

Post the Supreme Court’s judgment, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have started lobbying with the government for bailouts.

This indifference runs counter to the spirit of our messy, feisty and combative democracy, which loves gladitorial contests and doesn't believe in one-horse shows.

Like its ongoing drive among tribes of Jharkhand and adjoining areas of Chhattisgarh, the RSS is closely interacting with people at the grassroots level and trying to rope in the intermediary castes to its side in Bihar.

George Fernandes was so upset by the move that he declared Nitish Kumar as the choice of the BJP, not the JDU. But Jaitley along with Pramod Mahajan convinced Fernandes to accept Nitish as leader of NDA in Bihar.

The favourite targets of politicians are industrialists and entrepreneurs: black money is because of greedy rich people, corruption because of venal businesspersons, and now perpetuation of poverty because of the lack of solicitude on the part of India In...

Scrapping of Article 370 and Article 35A will attract flow of investments in sectors like tourism, food processing, handicrafts etc.

India's space programme speaks well of its technological and scientific capabilities and assures it a seat at the most exclusive high table of all: the comity of space-faring nations.

The government is setting up detention centres, Foreigner’s Tribunals and a central database of people tagged as foreigners and suspects in different categories. But post the NRC, the task could necessitate measures with a long-term perspective.

The BJP wanted to control the NRC exercise to suit its vote-bank politics but the Supreme Court has come in the way. Since its agenda has not been fulfilled, the party is making noises through a front and trying to discredit the NRC authority.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police is one of the most professional combative police forces in the country that operates mostly in the inner cordon during anti-terrorism ops and most of the success stories of eliminating terrorists in the Valley may be attributa...