Opinion

The farmers' protest has lost whatever little sanctity it had. The talks are now bound to fail.

For long, efforts were made to belittle the contribution of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in India's freedom struggle. And the same people stoked this row over his portrait.

India-US relations have been on a solid upward trajectory for the last two decades. There is every reason to believe this trend will continue during the Biden years.

The spectrum of the governance challenges for the new team are complex and multi-layered, beginning with the domestic political polarisation that the Trump constituency had stoked, a public health system in disarray, as well as economic, foreign policy, s...

The Gujaratis love their food, and on Sunday the Shiv Sena will roll out a version of its culinary diplomacy with a tagline ‘Mumbai ma jalebi ne fafda, Uddhav Thackeray aapda’.

In the killing of the Punjabi jeweller, terrorists stated explicitly that those who receive domicile certificates in J&K are "occupiers" and "RSS agents" and resolved to eliminate them.

Coming on the eve of the assembly elections, the felling of trees was interpreted as a political move and an attempt by the Fadnavis-led government to slight and undercut the Shiv Sena.

The turmoil which is being created in the country over the farm laws is a classic case where groups with vested interests are misleading the farmers and instigating them to revolt, and reestablish their lost political base.

As someone who can beat the BJP’s Chanakyas at their own game, Pawar’s partisans claim that their leader can repeat the Maharashtra experiment nationally. They state that if not as the UPA chief, their leader due his vast experience in politics and admini...

Over the past six years, voters in states have voted for one party while choosing an MLA but differently when voting for a Member of Parliament. How would this play out in simultaneous polls? Are we restricting the choice of citizens?

It is pertinent to point out Modi has time and again demonstrated that he is a thorough constitutionalist, working as per the path laid out under the Constitution to push for new India’s development that caters to its people’s aspirations.

The Yadav community and Muslims, the M-Y equation, worked well for the RJD, but it was not sufficient to form the government. There was a need to add other social and caste groups cohesively with the base vote of the Mahagathbandhan.

While a good showing in the 16 seats falling under the Gwalior-Chambal region would boost Scindia's prospects of becoming a union minister in the Narendra Modi cabinet, a dismal performance in his area of influence has a potential of reducing and undermin...

The state has a low ratio of administrative officers to population, a historical anomaly not corrected by successive administrations. This means one IAS officer handling multiple departments, sometimes 5-6. A complex task in normal circumstances. An impos...

With RJD making determined efforts to wean away NDA voters by increasing its catchment area, 2020 by was a close contest from Day 1.

With the festive season being round the corner, there are chances that there will be more movement of people especially in crowded places and now that the pollution levels are rapidly rising, this can further result in the infection spreading fast.