Opinion - Page 1291

No doubt it was a massive gathering. Perhaps ‘massive’ does not appear to be an appropriate word for describing a gathering of over five lakh...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is gradually morphing into a non-credible and tainted agency. It won’t be long before the CBI is deemed as a...

Neither the wobbly Indian rupee nor rising airfares can deter the growing wanderlust of the Indian middle class. ‘Travelling has become more of a...

During the nine-hour-long debate over the National Food Security Bill in Lok Sabha on 26 August, K V Thomas, the minister in charge of consumer...

What are the roles available for the political class in times of rioting? Political leaders can be expected to instigate riots, propagate rumours,...

Telugu Desam Party supremo Chandrababu Naidu is desperate to become relevant both at the national level as well as in Andhra Pradesh – going by his...

There was a time when life used to be really simple, that is, in the financial sector. There would be two credit policy announcements: one for the...

The government’s move to ask playschools to adopt mother tongues as their medium of instruction in the place of English is fraught with unforeseen...

The maiden monetary policy review by the celebrated economist and new Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Raghuram G Rajan has turned out to...

NUMBER of people who can benefit from government’s welfare programmes is going to swell. Currently, the central government caps the entitlements under...

A 35-second television commercial that cleverly promotes Horlicks by hyping on loss of nutrients in boiled milk has sparked a controversy. The...

All I got from my visits to two doctors at two of Noida’s leading private hospitals were impoverising bills, innumerable pills to pop and little...