Opinion - Page 895

Hidden behind the heat and dust of possible Greek exit from Euro common currency or resounding fall of Chinese stock, diplomats and Foreign Ministers...

The political scene in Bihar is hotting up with the crucial assembly election barely a couple of months away. With Nitish and Lalu deciding to shelve...

The Modi Government cannot merely rely on ruling BJP’s formidable presence in the Lok Sabha to weather the political storms that have swept across the...

In what is a giant blow to India’s bid to garner more Foreign Direct Investment inflows, the South Korean steelmaker Posco has decided to suspend its...

On July 16, a group of around a dozen people kidnapped a 36-year-old school teacher and RTI activist, Babu Ram Chauhan, beat him brutally, shaved his...

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the first and the last Indian Prime Minister to visit all the five central Asian republics –Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan,...

The Maharashtra government’s decision to tag students of traditional madrasas as “out-of-school” has put madrasa reforms back on the national...

Did the “Iftar diplomac”’ of the Congress President Sonia Gandhi this week succeed? It is too early to predict. While her supporters claim the glass...

Land leasing laws relating to rural agricultural land in Indian states were overwhelmingly enacted during decades immediately following the...

Over the past decade, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the United Nations’ (UN) Human Rights bodies have brought the world’s attention to the...

The much-awaited closest view of the most distant planet in our galaxy, Pluto, is only a few hours away. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will zip past...

NIFTEM, in its own humble and quiet way, has initiated a unique Nation building initiative called the “Village adoption program” which has been...