Opinion - Page 1297

The bloodletting in Egypt, which was triggered by the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi on 3 July, has foreshadowed its deeper ecological roots. Egypt...

When Manmohan Singh rose to deliver his Independence Day speech, a fleeting thought could have crossed his mind that this might be his last bow before...

Perhaps more than any government in recent history, the UPA has sought to project Indian power beyond its own shores. Banking on a wave of feel-good...

Last weekend a particular statement issued by Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit perked up my downcast mood. Delhi government announced setting-up of...

Congress party’s election slogan is bhookh-mukt Bharat (hunger-free India); the BJP’s battle cry is Congress-mukt Bharat (Congress-free India). It is...

The Delhi Metro reported a record ridership of 2.6 million Tuesday on the Raksha Bandhan festival, an official statement on Tuesday.The figure of...

Last year, Mala gave birth to a baby boy at a clinic in Delhi. The child was taken away from her soon after birth for he belonged to a childless...

At the time of its inception in 2005, the Right to Information Act generated high hopes and was rightly called the second independence of sorts for...

It has been nearly two years since the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest’s (MoEF’s) committees of experts set the ball rolling for restarting...

A mother of a two-year-old daughter, Das knows she has to inform her child about right and wrong touches to her body but doesn’t know how to...

Swami Vivekananda’s famous quotation on education, ‘We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect...

Centre’s decision to create a separate state of Telangana by carving out a few districts from the existing state of Andhra Pradesh brought smiles on...