Opinion - Page 1294

First, the mind-blowing figure: 8,13,373,000 or 813 million to round it off. That is two-thirds of this populous country and the number of people who...

The way the political administrations in multiple states are treating Asaram ‘Bapu’, the self-claimed godman/spiritual guru who is alleged to have...

The coming months are going to be full of tension for the Indian forces. They will again be forced to go alone as has been the culture as both China...

Haryana’s political scenario is set to change. A close look at the developments of the past few months will help perceive the form the changes may...

In the last few days, few political parties and some vested interests, especially ones belonging to ruling Congress party at the Centre, trying to...

I moved back to Delhi after a two-year stay in Mumbai in 2010. In two years, the city broke many myths for me which I had begun to believe as hard...

The recent shocking Mumbai gang-rape incident has once again thrown-up the issue of the accused claiming to be juveniles and wanting protection of the...

It was a coincidence that on the day the rationalist, Narendra Dabholkar, was shot dead in Pune, the newspapers carried the report that all the local...

The Indian Cyberia was abuzz last weekend over the launch of a portal called Pheku.in. The contents of the portal are planned in a way that they come...

In the 1970s, corporators of the then Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) gave themselves Rs 50,000 a year.Their idea was that each one of them must...

The National Security Archive, a Washington-based NGO, has made the sensational disclosure that the United States launched secret spy missions against...

Let me begin by expressing my deepest displeasure over the callous manner in which Uttar Pradesh’s (UP) claim for more High Court Benches has been...