Opinion - Page 674

A journalist isn’t generally expected to comment on news items in which s/he personally figures as an actor. But I’m compelled to do so in respect of...

The Narendra Modi government’s focus on human resource development (HRD), a slew of directional measures and announcements to improve access to...

Abruptly, toilets have become a topic of national importance – of immediate concern and urgency. The Centre and governments are waking up from stupor,...

The gang rape and brutal assault which resulted in the death of the paramedical student in the capital city on 16 December 2012 shook the conscience...

The ‘Modi speak’ on tough decisions in the next couple of years to nurse ailing economy has sparked off speculations about what measures he might...

Underlying the present controversy over the Four Year Undergraduate Programme in Delhi University is divergent perception about policy making. Who...

Like the proverbial Bourbons, the Congress learns nothing and forgets nothing. For the party, the latest electoral drubbing does not seem to have been...

By choosing Japan for his first major diplomatic port of call outside India’s neighbourhood, Narendra Modi has only confirmed what his critics and...

Health and safety are the most neglected concerns in Indian steel sector. This was again reinforced by two major accidents – one at the Bhilai steel...

It’s easy to simplify the implications of an extortion call in exclusively human terms as chilling and threatening. Security agencies, however, are...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to party cadres Saturday was a timely lament that Indian media fails yet again to address the need to report on...

Politics is an extra-ordinary profession. It’s seldom that a party which has won all the seven Lok Sabha seats in a state finds itself in a defensive...