Opinion - Page 616

Rajnath Singh is not an extraordinary leader. Though he has been BJP chief twice over – a feat that puts him on a par with Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK...

If statistics tell a story, it is a grim one.In 2007, the ministry of women and child development (WCD) said there are over three million women sex...

Few years ago I had the opportunity to work very closely with the Uttarakhand government as the then chief operating officer for the 108 government...

From Uttarakhand in July to Bihar in August and now in the assembly by-elections across several states, the results show that the high tide of the...

We had a very newsy week which just went by. A former Comptroller and Auditor General showed extra-ordinary entrepreneurship of converting a...

The goras or firingis who ruled over large parts of the subcontinent for centuries often appear to browns as an undifferentiated mass. That there are...

While going through ancient names of Delhi one may come across names like Dhilli, Dhillika, Yoginipura and Mihirapuri.   Such names have been found...

It has been sometime since you took charge of the ministry. List some significant achievements of this period?I think the most significant achievement...

Next month- October- will be crucial both for the Congress and the BJP when Haryana and Maharashtra go to polls to elect their respective assemblies....

The monarch butterfly (Danausplexippus) holds the awe of scientists as it migrates across the North American continent despite its diminutive size and...

Two quick revisits from the shadowy pages of history in the form of newsy events in England in recent times, which were as distant and as unrelated as...

The world is in turmoil. From Europe to the USA to West Asia and North Africa to South Asia, it appears that the vision of the 16th century English...