Opinion - Page 735

Beijing, London, Mexico City, New Delhi, and Paris are among the cities that have drawn attention for their dangerously high air pollution levels in...

What does the crystal ball predict for the year 2017? Politically, it is certainly going to be an eventful year. For one it will be the beginning of...

Rohingya Muslims fleeing from a recent crackdown in Myanmar are heading to India for safety in larger numbers than before. An estimated 40,000 of them...

The incidents of violence in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over sharing of Cauvery water have strained the relation between two southern states of India....

The announcement of the new Chief of Army Staff (1.3 million strong – the world’s third largest army) is crying shame. It also shows how much of an...

On September 22, 2006, there was a solar eclipse in various parts of the world, but in India, there was a new dawn in the shape of a landmark Supreme...

We live in a rapidly evolving, hyper-connected world, where goods, capital, and people are more mobile than ever before. But, whereas countries have...

We realised very late (in 2002) that the right to education for all children from age of six to fourteen years will have to be made a Fundamental...

It is said that history will judge P.V. Narasimha Rao more kindly than his contemporaries. More than his comment about how a decision can mean not...

Last week, soon after Lt General Bipin Rawat was announced the next Chief of Army Staff (COAS) superceding two officers senior to him, the armed...

Today, the RBI has again turned another of its own directives on its head and landed a new clanger in on the banks in the name of scrutinising black...

The Syrian government forces recaptured a vast majority of rebel-held Aleppo marking a major turning point in the six-year-old crisis faced by the...