Opinion - Page 855

For decades the residents of Khliehshnong village in Meghalaya struggled for a regular supply of water during the dry months from November to April,...

It took less than an hour in the afternoon  last Saturday for Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to change the entire perception that Bhartiya Janta Party...

The contrast between the two main opponents of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Delhi could not have been more stark. On one side is the...

Dystopia, in simple terms, would mean an imagined society which is undesirable to live in. But what of those communities who are forced to subsist in...

At 7:27 pm local time Saturday, December 12, 2015, a new Paris Agreement on global climate change was born after four years of taxing labor. Its...

India follows a parliamentary system of democracy. Its governance system consists of the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. A fourth...

At long last the US Federal Reserve – America’s central bank—has raised the interest rates, albeit hardly. It is the first hike in interest rates by...

The Madhesi issue simply refuses to die down and is causing a temporary estranged relationship between two time tested friends with deep cultural and...

Differences of opinion between the Centre and the states are quite common in a federal structure. This is more so if different political parties rule...

Winter mornings in Delhi are hardly the best time of the day. Every night, a large number of trucks pass through the city, spewing dirty diesel into...

The world has given its assent to the Paris Agreement on climate change. Countries used words such as “strong”, “durable”, “dynamic” to describe the...

People in mountains are one of the biggest victims of climate change. As negotiations at COP21 are heading towards a conclusion, there is clear...