Opinion - Page 894

The recent riots in parts of Gujarat have taken most of the elite in the state and the country by surprise. These events need a thorough examination....

In March 2015—in response to a drop in sales as taxes more than doubled over four years—India’s leading cigarette company ITC Ltd. shortened its...

Union Minister Maneka Gandhi’s bid to restrict consumption of fast food and drinks by school children is a laudable but futile exercise. She aims to...

Last year on Independence Day, speaking from the ramparts of the Red Fort, the prime minister made a very important announcement. His government would...

Roughly 32,000 new voters enrolled in each constituency for this year’s assembly election in Bihar may play a decisive role in determining the...

In January this year, the government sought public opinion on tougher new laws to curb smoking. These laws include increasing the minimum smoking age...

With Ranil Vickremesinghe as his Prime Minister, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has become much freer now to pursue his policy of...

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweetThus said the leading lady to the protagonist in William...

Recent events in the Chinese economy and its impact on the world markets merit attention. On August 24, a day also known as ‘Black Monday’, financial...

Climate change is real, a thing of the present, and extreme weather events have started to hurt the world around. India is in the grip of climate...

A meltdown in the Shanghai stock exchange sent shivers down the spine of global markets. But all those Cassandras, especially those in the West, who...

Maintaining his majoritarian assertiveness intact, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has retreated on land acquisition law, under political compulsions, to...