Opinion - Page 666

In less than a week from now, more than 50,000 students will enter the University of Delhi for three-year undergraduate courses. The students and...

Hollywood has always been a glittery dream destination, not only for budding Indian talents but for big Bollywood stars as well looking towards a...

The fact that sectarian sentiments based on caste or region or religion are not as deeply rooted as is common supposed but are really bubbles on the...

Though the Constitution christens the Budget as annual financial statement, the fact is that it’s also a compendium of the government’s political...

I have returned to ‘live’ in Calcutta, now Kolkata, the city of my birth, after a decade. As it happens, all of one’s childhood and adolescent...

Rural areas of Uttarakhand need to be hived off to urban operators to ensure that they get suitable attention in the country. India, inspite of being...

Two former CMs in Hindi heartland states have been striving hard to revive their bases in their states, after suffering the worst ever defeat by the...

With the anointment of Amit Shah as the national president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Narendra Modi has consolidated his grip on his party. It...

The budget has allocated Rs 37,850 crore for road building. Before that, the railway budget proposed setting up a diamond quadrilateral network of...

If a formal opinion is sought from an Islamic scholar, competent to issue such opinion, on an Islamic issue that may be understood as a ‘fatwa’. To...

Faced with the challenge of bringing a turnaround in the economy and bridging the fiscal deficit, the Modi government has shifted the usual focus of...

The federalism that exists in the Indian Union is federalism only in name. The meagre powers that constitutionally exist in the hands of the state...