Opinion - Page 792

Four of five Indians could afford the internet if data costs fell by 66 percent, according to a Facebook-commissioned report on Internet access. But...

When Jual Oram, Union Minister for Tribal Affairs, wrote to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik earlier this year, he fanned a simmering controversy....

Last fortnight, I discussed the need to reinvent garbage management in our cities so that we can process waste and not “landfill” it. This, as I...

Few political parties have done exceptionally better in state or national elections for their second term in office than Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool...

Racist attacks against Africans - in Bengaluru and New Delhi in February last year, in a Delhi Metro station last October, in Delhi a few days ago...

With an eye on the crucial Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose Western Uttar Pradesh’s communally sensitive...

US President Barack Obama’s speech in Hiroshima on May 27 was a very carefully crafted document. The speech merits some scrutiny - both for what it...

It would be almost spiteful to walk up to the US ambassador: “Congratulations, you have Donald Trump as President.” Which way would he look? Secretary...

It is a criminal, non-bailable act, but manual scavenging continues unhindered. “We do not have any illegal forms of work,” Charu Mori, chief...

What are the significant changes that the Ministry has brought about in the past two years?We have achieved a lot in the past two years. Some of the...

The Union Ministry of Environment is turning the NDA government’s commitment to business reforms into reality. In the last two years, 20,000-25,000...

The signing of the trilateral agreement on Chabahar port during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Iran this month is a major success for...