Opinion - Page 844

Arun Jaitley took the Rajya Sabha route to become Union Finance Minister after losing his Lok Sabha contest in May 2014 when the “Modi Wave” was at...

India is the world’s second-largest maker of bricks, and as the country grows, the demand for bricks will only rise. The sector is mainly composed of...

The recent terrorist attack on Pathankot airforce base once again highlighted the stupendous sacrifices that Indian soldiers make every day to...

Indian Buddhist monks are sowing the seeds of peace and harmony between the two neighbours that are linked by age-old ties of religion and culture.As...

Improved access to sanitation, together with good hygiene and access to safe water, are fundamental to good health, and social and economic...

The global economy is not looking good in the face of market turmoil in China. A global recession triggered by the poor show of the European economy...

Indian cities are in a rut. The explosion in urban population and the need of modern comfort and aspiration have turned them into unmanageable...

On January 23, 1897, the iconic Subhas Chandra Bose was born. Forty-four years later, in 1941, he left the country never to return, dying in a...

When some merchants from the north went down to the south, a prince in the Deccan asked: “Who is your king?” The answer was, “Some of us are governed...

While investors and business circles grumble over the tardy pace of growth in Indo-China bilateral trade through the Nathu La Himalayan outpost,...

Only 16 of 29 states and seven Union Territories had digitised the leaky ration-card system of the world’s largest programme to distribute subsidised...

By declaring Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for Bodos living in the twin hill districts of Assam, the Central government has again moved in a wrong...