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The government’s war of words with the opposition over the stalling of the House is indicative of a deeper malaise that is plaguing the system. The...

A parliamentary panel has rightly expressed concern about the provision of automatic promotion till class VIII under the Right to Education (RTE) Act,...

With the Saradha group now gone bust, an entire gamut of companies engaged in wheeling-dealing ponzi schemes are now rightly under the scanner....

It is condemnable that the Indian prisoner in Pakistan, Sarabjit Singh, is now in critical care in hospital with serious head injuries after a...

The Delhi High Court’s demand for a response from the Centre on a petition filed by the former BJP ideologue KN Govindacharya, asking how children and...

With the Supreme Court having taken suo motu cognisance of a police officer of the Delhi police slapping a young girl while she was protesting the...

The Saradha group chit fund scam that has rocked the collective conscience of the nation is, first of all, not a recent phenomenon; nor is it an...

It is shocking that the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), set up in 2006 with much fanfare to meet the challenge of natural and other...

The scathing report by the CAG on the UPA-II government’s flagship programme MGNREGA points yet again to the gaping chasms in the mechanisms of state...

There is probably no cause for alarm in the recent incursion of Chinese troops 10 kilometres inside the Indian territory in Ladakh. Though initially...

Justice Jagdish Sharan Verma, who died on Monday, has left an indelible impression on the collective conscious of the entire nation. Not only for the...

The parliamentary standing committee on coal and steel, headed by Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Bannerjee  has done the nation a signal service through...