Opinion - Page 629

Smart is as smart does. The NDA government’s proposal to build 100 ‘smart’ cities will work only if it can reinvent the very idea of urban growth in a...

Human development is a process of enlarging people’s choices. The most critical ones are to lead a long and healthy life, to be educated and to enjoy...

A nondescript colony in northwest Delhi is quietly experimenting with privatised water supply while the jury is still out on privatisation of...

The Reserve Bank of India sees need for continued monetary vigilance on consumer price inflation, though moderating, and thus leaves policy rates...

Last Sunday read an innocuous news item in one of the newspapers, which said that 15 new officers have joined as assistant commissioners of Delhi...

Muzaffarpur in Bihar is as infamous for encephalitis as it is famous for its shahi litchis. Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) has been a leading cause...

If you take away 2010 New Delhi, the benchmark for India at the Commonwealth Games has been 2002 Manchester when they crossed the 50-medal mark for...

Should I have a right over my own life? Not in a metaphorical or imagined sense. Not even in the modern and democratic nature of fundamental rights...

The BJP might have taken these elections lightly under the impression that the Congress men in the state are anyway demoralised after their...

An Indian prime minister visited Nepal after a hiatus of nearly 17 years. During this intervening period, six head of states and nine prime...

Something unexpected, if not unprecedented, happened on 19 July. Delhi lieutenant-governor Najeeb Jung, in news of late more for animation over the...

India has shown the industrialised countries they can have their way in multilateral trade negotiations at the expense of the developing world. The...