Opinion

The PM’s speech was highly laudatory, and he rightly termed the university as a ‘Mini India’, the former AMU V-C writes.

Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, in a press conference in Dubai recently, accused India of preparing for another surgical strike on Pakistan.

Latest data from the National family Health Survey 5 show that even today, nearly every second woman in Bihar and every third in Andhra Pradesh is illiterate.

The ongoing protests will affect the economy of the country because agriculture is a crucial sector that supports the economy.

To believe that the corporate sector exploits us and to aspire for a job in a big company; to claim that India is the greatest country in the world and try for permanent residency in Canada; to assert that the West is decadent and seek jobs in America and...

In a sublime whataboutary, the former have nurtured the ideas behind the new farm laws domestically, and the latter has been fighting against the interests of the same farmers in WTO. The sole constituency that may lose a small part of their interest woul...

Already on a slippery slope after a string of electoral defeats, Ahmed Patel’s death could not have come at a worse time for the Congress.

With the aggressive stance of the BJP after its impressive performance in the state elections, it would not be easier for Kumar to run the government as smoothly as it used to be in the company of Sushil Modi as his deputy chief minister.

The paper, released in November this year, by the policy planning staff of the US Department of State, titled “The Elements of the China Challenge”, is by far the most-damning condemnation of China’s expansionist policies under President Xi Jinping.

As a precaution against Covid-19, the World Health Organization recommended alcohol-based hand sanitisers, which are mainly made up of ethanol, isopropyl alcohols, hydrogen peroxides in different combinations, for frequent hand hygiene.

The Pakistan army holds a deep conviction that India has never reconciled to Pakistan’s existence and sees the competition in ideological and religious terms – a Hindu India vs a Muslim Pakistan.

Projections by the IMF suggest that India is among the worst-affected developing countries due to the lockdown and our economy is expected to contract by a little more than ten per cent in the current fiscal. As a natural effect of the decline in GDP, our...

The key to broad-based economic recovery has to be sustained growth in most of these metrics – retail vehicle sales, GST, income tax and corporate tax collections and in employment. A new round of fiscal stimulus from the government wouldn’t hurt, either.

Censuring someone else standing in solidarity with France rather than uniting against the brutal acts is a symptom of the malaise facing the conventional 'liberal' establishment.

Political analysts have argued that the reason behind a male-dominated system reserving seats for women is primarily 'votes'. For example, in the last three assembly polls in Punjab, the gender difference in the voter-turnout has changed dramatically in t...

A career politician from the RSS stable, with five decades and more of experience under his belt, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has seen real politics from close quarters during his days as sangh pracharak and thereafter. Precisely the reason he was chos...