Opinion - Page 688

Four decades after 1970-1971, the US and its European allies have failed in their second attempt to organise an undeclared diplomatic isolation of the...

On 13 January 2014, our current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone for one of India’s largest nuclear power plants in Haryana...

Will history be kind to Manmohan Singh? Yes, believes Prof G K Chadha, former vice-chancellor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University and now president of...

For one used to the melee of the world’s biggest book fair (the celebrated Kolkata Book Fair that is), a theme country, one lakh visitors a day, whiff...

Aam aadmi has suddenly become the toast of the country. It was the celebrated cartoonist R K Laxman who popularised the aam aadmi concept. Through his...

When I look back at 2013, I hear a cacophony. There was huge dissent about the way we are mismanaging coal reserves; the Supreme Court shut down iron...

This is over and above the  electoral calendar coming in the way of any prospective investor to take a serious call till the new government is in...

While the election commission (EC) eventually decided to abandon its plans to tie up with Google for online voter facilitation, the agency has an...

The Gorkhaland movement is within the ambit of the Indian Constitution but somehow always tends to send wrong signals. Thus, it is important to...

The new year augurs well for the world economy, judging from a slew of global assessments, and induces hope for a better growth outcome in 2014 for...

The Union cabinet’s statement that it has asked the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) to give its view for inclusion of Jats in the...

As the Lok Sabha election looms, India’s political battle-lines are being redrawn. The Congress, mauled in recent elections, and loathed for high...