Opinion - Page 875

Every day as I leave from work, I see men, old and young alike, making a beeline for the local paan (betel leaf) vendor. Some are busy chewing paan...

Swine flu is back in Gujarat, only sooner than one would have anticipated. Cases started trickling in from the middle of summer when viral infections...

Toxic fumes from firecrackers will once again poison the air we breathe this Diwali. Ten years after the Supreme Court said fireworks must be...

Myanmar, now formally a democratic country under a civil government, will go for its second general elections on November 8. In 2011, the Army...

India’s modest improvement in the World Bank’s “Doing Business Index” this year, along with the Bank’s projection that the economy will continue to...

With October begins the season of festivals for almost all of India. Celebrations start with Dussera, followed by Diwali, Christmas, New Year and...

When the Berlin Wall came crashing down in 1992, and the people from the Eastern and the Western parts of Germany’s capital met each other after a...

After the Bihar elections,  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to pay attention to the economy and quicken the pace of reforms. Or else all his...

Ahead of the Bonn climate talks, the co-chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP), Ahmed Djoghlaf and Daniel...

Last month, on the occasion of the 10th Sustainability Summit organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Union Environment Minister...

A couple of recent events do not bode well for the well-established relations between Nepal and India and call for immediate attention. As Nepal...

Public discourse has been redolent with outrage. The reasons pertain to reports of rising intolerance, ignorance, hatred, and violence. The response...