Opinion

While Rashmi has been active in the Shiv Sena for decades, she may increase her engagement with the party organisation due to her husband Uddhav and elder son Aaditya getting positions in the Maharashtra government.

Why was it that while the people of India felt, and feel, at home in Washington, New York, and other US cities, our leaders found friends in Moscow and Jakarta?

Long before the riots began, suspicion and hatred had flared into skirmishes between protestors in Jaffrabad and Hindus in areas like Karawal Nagar, fuelled by Hindu nationalist propaganda.

Millions of workers belonging to the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party, the BJP and others are showing callous indifference in a year when the nation is celebrating 150 years of the apostle of peace, Mahatma Gandhi.

In the latest Budget, development of the youth has been ensured by giving substantial importance to education and training of youth and creating new avenues for utilising the potential of the young workforce.

What should worry India is that the resolutions further damage India’s image abroad as a secular, liberal and egalitarian society that does not discriminate on the basis of religion.

It was due to the objections raised by Varma and Kishor to alliance with the BJP in Delhi that they have been excluded from the list of JD(U)’s star campaigners in the upcoming Delhi polls.

The Congress is a pale shadow of its old self today and the other opposition parties obviously want to take full advantage of this situation.

The certainty and severity of the Left party-led vehemence and pattern of violence in West Bengal and Kerala is seen and apparent inside the country.

It would be premature on part of the Congress to think that the BJP is now in decline and that Narendra Modi’s popularity is on the wane.

Malaysian PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s pro-minority rant is lost in history. Because his Malaysian United Indigenous Party, formed in 2016, is an unabashed votary for the ethnic-majority Bumipetras, who are flourishing at the expense of minority rights.

JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar’s surprising stand on the citizenship bill also prompts questions on whether the move is a gamble for bigger share of seats and or a guarantee for the post of CM if NDA comes to power again in Bihar.

There is an urgent need to destigmatise madrasas as breeding places for terrorism, argues a new book that scrutinises the problems plaguing Islamic seminaries in the country.

Gotabaya’s victory in the presidential elections, where the minority communities in the north and the east of the island voted in unison against him, was a decisive verdict from the over 70 per cent Sinhala majority in the country.

The fact is that there is no such thing as panacea; the need of the hour is an array of actions at various levels — central, state, and local.

For the first time, the AIMIM got a foothold in Kishanganj assembly seat when its candidate Qamrul Hoda defeated the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Sweety Singh by a margin of over 19,000 votes.