Barack Obama’s re-election as the president of the United States is a welcome development – if only because a Mitt Romney victory would have been much...

The fear expressed in this Column, namely, that the Congress party may be losing its survival instinct, has come true within a fortnight. The 4...

A former Indian Air Force (IAF) chief of staff speaking just before the IAF’s 80th anniversary, made the rather astounding claim that if India had...

A view expressed by Air Vice Marshal A K Tewary in 2006 in an Indian Defence Review article, in which he quoted Lt Gen B M Kaul, the army commander in...

Glowing tributes have been lavished on Brajesh Mishra, the former Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister and National Security Adviser [NSA] who...

Imagine a society where 80 percent of grocery sales are monopolised by just five giant retailers like Walmart, Tesco and Carrefour, where locally...

By the time this article appears in print, the number of people displaced by ethnic violence in Assam since 20 July will probably have crossed the...

The ghastly violence and arson at the Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) car factory at Manesar near Gurgaon in Haryana, which led to the death of a...

After years of vacillation, the Gandhi family scion Rahul has announced that he will play a more proactive role in the United Progressive Alliance...

Recent violence against women, such as the aggravated sexual assault on a young student in Guwahati in Assam, has deeply shocked the public...

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) top leadership has again succumbed to what has become a compulsive habit. It has abjectly capitulated to blackmail...

The killing of 20 civilians by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Sarkeguda in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district will go down as a disgraceful...