An important item in the free trade agreement being negotiated between India and the European Union is automobiles. The EU is pressing for a reduction...

When the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the second largest component of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), with 19 MPs, walked out of it last...

The Human Development Report 2013, just released by the United Nations Development Programme, highlights the rise of the Global South, comprising some...

He was called a ‘socialist showman’ and ‘elected autocrat’, derided as a blind hater of the United States, and ridiculed as a demagogue who splurged...

Beyond the maze of numbers, four features of Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s Budget stand out. First, thanks to its obsession with reducing the...

India’s neighbourhood is in great turmoil, but New Delhi seems unable to fashion a coherent, balanced, mature and self-confident response to it. In...

If psychologist Ashis Nandy had planned to ignite a potentially ugly controversy at the Jaipur Literary Festival, he couldn’t have done better than by...

Rahul Gandhi’s elevation to the post of the Congress vice-president after the party’s two-day chintan shivir in Jaipur was an organisational...

Skirmishes at the India-Pakistan Line of Control (LoC) in the Mendhar sector in Jammu have spilled blood – both soldiers’ and civilians’ – and...

The United Progressive Alliance government is launching a massive project to transfer cash to people in lieu of public services, based on the Aadhaar...

By secretly hanging Ajmal Kasab for the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, the government committed a gross Constitutional impropriety and almost ...

Let our politicians, television anchors and film stars fall over one another in lavishing praise on Bal Thackeray for his personal candour, political...