Opinion - Page 846

We are increasingly talking about building a modern nation.  While it is important to develop infrastructure, scientific spirit, technical strength,...

According to a news item in a leading English daily, over three lakh dwelling units have been delayed for delivery for as long as up to eight years....

India’s 156-year-old, colonial-era sedition law - used against arrested Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union President Kanhaiya Kumar - has...

There should be no doubt that all major parties to the Syrian conflict remain committed to a military solution and that the political process is a...

Backpackers on a shoe-string budget who want to mingle with nature and see rare flora and fauna not found anywhere else in the world and those who...

Family farmers in developing countries must have access to agricultural biotechnologies, keeping in mind the need to improve yields and maintain...

Many years ago, when Delhi’s air pollution was as high as it is today, my colleague Anil Agarwal and I had gone to meet a high-ranking, responsible...

It is regrettable that even nearly 70 years after Independence, health care is appalling and the country is struggling to apportion 2 percent of GDP...

Thirty-two years after Indian troops secured key passes on the north-south running Saltoro Range to deny Pakistan access to the Siachen Glacier, it...

There is no story in global health as transformative, awe-inspiring, and yet as tragic as the AIDS pandemic. The disease was unknown only a generation...

The Union Government has seen two important announcements in the recent past. Under the flagship Smart City Mission, it recently announced the first...

There is this Member of Parliament from East Delhi (Mahesh Giri) who on the advice of some soothsayer has rechristened himself as Maheish Girri,...