Opinion - Page 897

I was on the third-floor balcony of a friend’s apartment in Mehrauli, Delhi’s first city. It had a commanding view of green, lush foliage stretching...

Often the famous “last words” in any urban mobility conversation are about “last mile connectivity”. And I wonder, why “last mile”? Such a view is...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued dietary guidelines for its citizens every five...

A former Citigroup trader, Tom Hayes, recently found guilty by a London court of rigging London interbank offer rate (Libor), was sentenced to 14...

Farmers’ organisations of Karnataka and other states have appealed to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) based in New Delhi to intervene, in...

On December 20th, 1996, I had the good fortune of meeting one of India’s most primitive communities, a day that has been forever etched in my memory....

Forests and the positive externalities arising out of them in the form of various ecosystem services greatly influence both the revenue capacities as...

The maiden Independence Day speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, from the premises of the Red Fort last year, was full of how to make India clean...

With the defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in the just-concluded Sri Lankan parliamentary election, not only is...

Is the Modi government displaying an unfortunate lack of attention to ex-servicemen by delaying the implementation of the One Rank One Pension (OROP)...

A leading English daily published the findings of the yet-to-be-public CAG report that has audited the three Delhi electricity distribution companies...

Contemporary capitalism in India believes that suspension of democracy makes for faster decision-making which would be what the business community...