Opinion

Countries like Myanmar are treading cautiously even as China is pushing several infrastructure projects, including its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in Southeast Asia. The ongoing border standoff with China seems to have offered India an oppor...

PM Modi has launched around 30 projects worth Rs 4,366 crore in five phases starting September 10, including construction of mega bridges across Ganga, highway projects, landmark railway bridge over Kosi and petroleum gas pipeline projects among others.

The continuation of the process depends upon the role of the interlocutor who must enjoy the confidence of the rebel groups and the government. Confidence-building takes time and hasty transfers hardly help in achieving the goal.

While Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal were on the losing side, the likes of Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tiwari, Prithviraj Chavan, Milind Deora and Vivek Tankha face an uncertain future.

The fallout of judgment of the Kesavananda Bharati case was grave. While the judiciary and senior-most judges had to suffer at the hands of the executive because of their judgment, the fact remains that if they would not have formulated the basic structur...

While Japan led the deal, in recent times India has had growing concerns about supply chain dependence on China combined with Chinese border stoush, while Australia is being hit by Chinese trade restrictions.

The existing perception is that upper castes like Brahmins and Rajputs have no respect or future in the SP or BSP. This perception needs to change. And the sooner it changes, the better for them, if they aspire for Brahmin votes.

The nullification of Article 370 has paved the way for a better future for the masses.

For the first time, grassroots democracy was significantly strengthened by the Narendra Modi government thanks to the conduct of local body elections.

The pandemic and the complete decimation of air-traffic have brought up a window of opportunity. But the window may not last long.

A common misconception is that the Non-cooperation and Khilafat Movements played out in that order or were launched simultaneously.

The attitude and behaviour of Muslim and Hindu leaders during the Khilafat Movement did not come upon suddenly. It was a continuation of a pattern that started after 1857.

Churchill’s wartime philosophy was simple: he would exterminate the Japanese, bomb the Germans into the ground, and starve the Indians to death. Thanks to Churchill’s personal decisions, some four million Bengalis died of hunger in a 1943 famine.

The belligerent tech gods started capturing journalism’s territory with a swiftness that was unprecedented, leaving news publishers with a revenue model that got hollowed out like the Bamiyan Buddhas.

Strategic importance of this area became prominent but not evident to Indian polity when Chinese constructed a road from Tibet to Xinjiag province in 1950.

Bharati’s killing is one more addition in the long list of innocents, who have been killed by these trigger-happy terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir during the past 30-years.