Opinion
Commission should decide on Air India
The options are privatisation or disinvestment besides operational choices like leasing out its management.
Rethink cattle slaughter ban
Monitoring committees will now be swarming cattle markets to ensure that the regulations are being followed.
Why India doesn’t have friendly neighbours
India warned those attending that the partnership with the Chinese would come at a heavy price, but almost nobody heard us.
Dilli Ka Babu: Babus assets in the dark
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is still in the process of settling down, despite repeated reshuffling of officials.
‘Things have changed since 26/14... There’s no room for the corrupt’
Everyone knows that presidential election is a number game, says Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
360 Degree: Can International Court of Justice untie ‘K’ knot
New Delhi can keep harping about J&K being an integral part of India – the rest of the world simply does not agree.
No case for anyone but ourselves
Both through commission and omission, the Modi government has allowed the situation in the Kashmir valley to deteriorate to a crisis.
Politics should not undermine justice
Robert Mueller has a wide remit and ample authority to fulfil his duties.
What’s in a name? A lot, it seems, in politics
Congress politicians and partisans responded to the inauguration of the bridge with a peculiar protest.
We still live in the house Nehru built
Jawaharlal Nehru was a man with a towering intellect and a broad vision.
BJP’s winning mantra: Optics over delivery
Modi has cemented his position as the tallest leader in the country.
Dalit uprising, a wake-up call for all
The Bhim Army is not preaching an armed uprising and is perfectly within the law.
FIPB scrapped, what next?
A person filling a proposal for the FIPB’s consideration had to provide some 18 documents duly filled and presumably in duplicates and triplicate.
Perverse ideologies give birth to terror
The bomb Abedi detonated was an amateur but sophisticated effort.
Mera bhashan hi mera prashashan hai
In the past three years, social cohesion has been the biggest casualty.
Mystic Mantra: Ramzan — A spiritual test
Fasts in Hinduism are aimed at eschewing the mundane desires of the body for the nourishment of the soul.
Interview of the Week
‘I don’t see any Modi tsunami... both Cong and NDA have failed’
On Karnataka pivots the BJP’s hope of launching the southern leg of its Congress-Mukt Bharat operation.
How Kerala flattened the curve, lowest death rates: Health minister Shailaja explains
Health department constituted 18 expert groups in training health care staff for detailed stock-taking of beds, equipment in each hospital
‘India can be argumentative but not intolerant...’
Demonetisation has immobilised a large amount of cash, a part of which was black money on which no tax was being paid, says Pranab.
‘Mayawati no longer talking about dalits... she is scared of losing upper caste votes’
Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has been in the thick of Dalit politics since the dilution of the SC/ST Atrocities Act.
‘Impact of #MeToo will take time... It’s a step towards a just world’
The Act allows for complaints to be made within 30 days of the incident, and in case of delay within an additional 30 days.
The Age Debate
Home truths on foreign soil?
Rahul Gandhi criticising the Modi government in the US is not an insult to India.
The games politicians play
Congress has itself to blame for defection of its MLAs.