Opinion

Whether it was the 2011 earthquake in the Northeast and eastern India, the 2013 floods in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Nepal, the 2014 earthquake in Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistan, or the 2015 floods in southern India—at every instance, Narendra Modi, as...

The hill forts in the Sahyadri, which served Shivaji Maharaj well when he fought to marauding forces and are hence his living monuments, are crumbling even as a memorial to the Chhatrapati takes shape in Mumbai.

The Shiv Sena may deplete its political capital if it is forced to agree to quotas for Muslims, with whom its cadre once clashed on the streets in communal conflagrations like the 1992-1993 Mumbai riots.

In 2018, a total of 13,099 cases of fire accidents were reported in the country, showing a marginal decrease of 2.2% during 2018 over 2017 (13,397 cases).

Where are child rights activists and organisations? Why is there no furore? Why have the courts not taken suo motu cognizance of how children are being used for propaganda?

Given the electoral arithmetic in Tamil Nadu, the Congress is essential for the DMK to have a clear edge over the AIADMK in the next assembly elections, scheduled to be held in 2021.

A ‘dream alliance’ conceived by Indira Gandhi between her son Rajiv and Raj Kapoor’s daughter Ritu would come to naught. While Rajiv was away at Cambridge for higher studies, he met Sonia Maino and fell in love with her.

In the absence of any one party as a strong rival, the BJP is still hoping for a favourable outcome and the poll result will be dependent on local equations as analysis of some constituencies in the first three phrases confirm.

If persecution of minorities in the neighbouring countries is the reason for dilution of the Citizenship Act, the Centre could have dealt with the problem through a different route.

The annual DARPA budget is a little over $3 billion, while the DRDO budget is approximately $2.5 billion. With not much difference in budget, why does DARPA accomplish so much more than the DRDO?

Less than a week since five labourers who hailed from Bengal’s Murshidabad district were shot dead in Katrasu village of south Kashmir’s Kulgam, migrant workers have started fleeing the Valley.

The impact of UT status on the students was articulated by Yang Chen Lamo, who was extremely happy that the examinations would now be held on time and students would be awarded their degrees timely.

The policemen will surely face criminal proceedings as well as departmental inquiry for “misconduct” or “dereliction of duty”. Why shouldn’t the lawyers too face legal action in a similar manner? Are they above law?

These telecom companies have only themselves to blame for thinking they could get away by short-changing the exchequer of its due share of the profits from the telecom boom.

Political families in India ensure their hegemony remains intact by deterring the emergence of other leaders and protecting their own kin.

Banerjee and Duflo introduced field experiments and conducted randomised control trials (RCTs) to scientifically evaluate anti-poverty programmes and learn about poverty from those who perhaps understand it the best: the poor themselves