Opinion - Page 1289

The state of Uttar Pradesh is of paramount importance keeping in view the post election scenarioin 2014. The state with 80 Lok Sabha seats is being...

In Goa mines are closed. In Bellary, iron ore mines, once closed, have been opened on the condition that they will now follow a plan for environmental...

No one can question L K Advani’s contribution to the growth of the BJP from two seats in 1984 to 182 seats in 1999. He should, therefore, had been...

Ami Bera is a self-made man and pursued what is called the American Dream. Son of an Indian immigrant couple from Rajkot in Gujarat, Bera is the only...

It’s now nearly three months since natural calamities wracked havoc on the mountainous region of Uttarakhand. This may be the correct time to take...

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg thanked social media for acting as an effective feedback tool, ‘an instant referendum on everything.’ Bloomberg knows...

The Amartya Sen vs Jagdish Bhagwati debate has led the discourse in the media over the past few weeks. The insipid have called it the ‘redistribution...

There can be no bigger an embarrassment to a secular democracy than a public rip-off of its citizens’ democratic rights on the pretexts of religion,...

Protests against Hindi deep down the South may be apparently right because  a language should be like a hearty meal with dashes of regional flavour...

Since he occupied the hot seat at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) a few days ago, the country’s principal markets dealing in corporate stocks,...

Coal has occupied the centre-stage of national debates for months. There is need to look beyond the ongoing controversy and put an appropriate legal...

MPs fight to keep criminals in power, screamed a newspaper headline. The Supreme Court has ruled that politicians convicted of serious crimes must...