Opinion

There is no denying that Pakistan has JeM camps spread across the country. Just recently, the government in its own circular referred to the seminary that it took over in Bahawalpur as the JeM headquarters.

Indian nationalists have always been keen on maintaining the nation-citizen duality; they regard the nation as a deity. This transforms patriotism into some sort of piety, worship; and you don’t mix carnal love with devotion to divinity.

Priyanka Gandhi and Congress are planning a category much broader that encompasses caste and echoes the meaning of class. However, categories like women, youth and marginal seem too abstract.

If global climate efforts fail and we continue to burn fossil fuels and dump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as we do now, it would lead to “five degrees in warming” of the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region and a loss of two-thirds of the glaciers.

There are two main reasons for the Congress fall from public grace. First, it seemed reluctant to take on Naveen Patnaik, for reasons not clear. The second is factionalism, which has always been the bane of the Odisha Congress.

Jet has been a significant player in the domestic market in India and its imminent downfall could cause severe turbulence — much like the demise of erstwhile Kingfisher Airlines did.

The Citizenship Bill, the BJP believes, can help the party make gains along West Bengal’s border areas where the influx of illegal Bangladeshi nationals is an emotive issue with the locals

Analysts have been warning of fiscal slippage for months, saying it is nearly impossible for the government to stick to its 3.3% fiscal deficit target and the figure will likely be 3.5%.

he decision to appoint Ashok Gehlot as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan and Kamal Nath as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh underscores the value that the veterans hold in the party.

All the three chief ministers appointed by the BJP post-2000 — Uma Bharti, Babulal Gaur and Shivraj Singh Chouhan — belonged to the OBC community but the Congress could not produce any strong OBC leader in the state.

The Delhi Court's order unlikely to bring the families that survived the violence any satisfaction of justice. It will prove to be a mere lazily applied band aid over an old and deep wound.

Chandrababu Naidu and Rahul Gandhi, the bosses of Telugu Desam Party and the Congress, had a formal meeting in Delhi. They are friends now. With a single agenda – to defeat Narendra Modi in 2019.

The story of Polish refugees in India and the ‘Good Maharaja’ (that is how Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhjii called in Poland) dates back to September 1, 1939, the beginning of the Second World War and invasion of Nazi Germany on Poland.

The issue of Digvijaya Singh’s isolation in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh is intriguing for many inside as well as outside the party. Singh himself was heard commenting in Bhopal recently that he was being shunned.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s decision to implement the SC order – or rather his perceived haste in implementing the order – actually came as a surprise lifeline for the BJP and the Sangh Parivar.

As Sabarimala grew as one of India’s most well-known Hindu pilgrimage centres, there was general acceptance among Kerala’s subdued women on the ban on entering the temple. No woman openly questioned it.