Opinion - Page 1333

Events slated to take place during 2013-2014 may prove to be a turning point for Jammu and Kashmir. The first event was the 11 May elections in...

The Capital of the most politically sensitive state of Bihar, Patna is an ancient and historic city. Its earlier city Patliputra used to be the...

There has been much discussion in the newspaper columns on the positives and negatives of the proposed change in under-graduate degree programme from...

It may sound rather odd that India’s public sector (PSU), set up with great fanfare during the Nehru-Indira Gandhi era to champion the cause of the...

Recently, when I went on successive visits to Chennai and Kolkata, I was simply awestruck by the grandeur, architectural beauty and engineering...

The visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s to India is significant as it is his first visit abroad and comes close after a boundary standoff. Yet,...

It was more than three decades ago, at the end of 1982, that I met Rajiv Gandhi for the first time. I was a junior journalist those days, but the...

The latest Sino-Indian spat on temporary land boundaries in the far north of India need to be understood on the anvil of two facts:(1) China has...

Today’s man is not the one adorned in white shirt or black pants. He is the one who knows all about Louis Vuitton to a simple shirt from Colour Plus....

There was an air of festivity and excitement at Cherukulathur village on 23 January. In a declaration on an unprecedented scale, all 600 families of...

Nawaz Sharif romped home in flying colours with his party, Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz group) having won 126 out of 272 seats (excluding 70 reserved...

The tiny northeast Indian state of Tripura has turned into the second largest producer of natural rubber in the country largely because several...