Opinion - Page 677

Politicians, it’s said, are very thick skinned. In my two decades as reporter I did come across some of these thick skinned politicians but in most of...

Politicians, it’s said, are very thick skinned. In my two decades as reporter I did come across some of these thick skinned politicians but in most of...

Old habits die hard. After a brief lull, group rivalry in the Congress in Kerala has flared up with renewed vigour.The proximate cause for...

Not long ago, V Balakrishnan, a former chief financial officer at IT giant Infosys, called the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) the ‘most successful and exciting...

Even before Narendra Modi became the prime minister, he did something that none of the governments before his could do in the past 50 years. And this...

Seldom we find an important message of the Indian Prime Minister relegated to an inside page in a national newspaper, as it was on Monday (TOI,...

The international draw down from Afghanistan of 2014 is upon the Indian subcontinent and 9,600 American residual forces will be left there. This will...

Few may be knowing that the demand for the new state originated first among employees of Telangana because of the preponderance of Andhra employees....

Considering that the non-communist institutional Left and the establishmentarian Communist parties have received a major setback in the recently held...

The chances of a ‘city-killing’ asteroid striking Earth are much higher than scientists previously thought. A recent report has found that more than...

Life is often so cruel that it transcends logic. Nobody understood the essence of this illogicality of life better than rural development minister...

In 2009 when the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) decided to get new office space for its 600-odd officials, the then minister Jairam...