Opinion - Page 908

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...

The acronym BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is attributed to economist Jim O’Neill of the Goldman Sachs, who initially coined...

Will there be political realignments in Punjab before the Assembly polls due in early 2017? The question assumes importance as the form of...

The ensuing debate, legally speaking, has clearly no far-reaching effect inasmuch as applying the provisions of Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA)...

There is a science and an art of policy-making. In India, this is confounding and abstract. But what stands out is that the intent and form of...