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Supreme Court of India (Photo: PTI)

Parents in the Valley face a double bind

The UGC on Friday wrote to vice-chancellors of varsities across the country to ensure the safety of Kashmiri students.

24 Feb 2019 2:10 AM IST

Modi vs Rest: Anybodys poll in 2019

Modi vs Rest: Anybody's poll in 2019

Clearly, neither PM Narendra Modi nor BJP chief Amit Shah will shy away from a counter-offensive to regain lost ground.

17 Feb 2019 5:54 AM IST

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. (Photo: PTI)

Uttar Pradesh holds the key

The Congress outreach to non-Yadav OBCs seems to have upset Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.

17 Feb 2019 5:46 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Can Modi's charisma hold fast at 17 in Karnataka?

Political experts confide that the party should consider itself lucky if it is able to retain a little more than half...

17 Feb 2019 5:37 AM IST

The ruling party may be compelled by present circumstances as well as the empathy Modi had for Jayalalithaa to align, but there are huge known unknowns when it comes to aligning with a North Indian party.

Tamil Nadu gamechanger: DMK, allies hold all the aces

There are pollsters willing to give 80 to 100 per cent of the 39+1 (Puducherry) LS seats to DMK+.

17 Feb 2019 5:34 AM IST

Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar near his residence in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Elementary, CBI: An important job, half done

The CBI is the successor organisation of DSPE. It continues to function under the DSPE Act.

10 Feb 2019 7:39 AM IST

CBI officers who went to question Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the Saradha ponzi scam, being detained by Kolkata police in Kolkata last week. (Photo: PTI)

Careerism, cancer of probe agencies

The above questions have engaged the attention of numerous judicial commissions and apex court.

10 Feb 2019 12:05 AM IST

Welfare budget: Unconventional

The budget aims to contain the fiscal deficit to 3.4% 0.1% more than budgeted and in the next FY it is anticipated to be...

3 Feb 2019 7:46 AM IST

People's Budget and why not?

Taxpayers have always been at the receiving end of successive budgets even as the government constantly grappled with...

3 Feb 2019 2:00 AM IST

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

Priyanka faces an uphill task

With less than 3 months to go for Lok Sabha polls, the entry of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has boosted the morale of party...

27 Jan 2019 7:56 AM IST

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

Priyanka is not Indira Gandhi

The BJP's spectacular performance in UP in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections made it the first party to come power on its own...

27 Jan 2019 7:52 AM IST

The government can choose to pay a certain amount, which can be calculated as the poverty line threshold multiplied by the number of people in a household and then scaled up for a month.

Universal Basic Income: A worthwhile experiment

Various employment schemes at the Central and state levels should be done away with and the people provided a basic...

20 Jan 2019 4:46 AM IST