Opinion

A day after violence erupted at a peaceful gathering of Dalits at Bhima-Koregaon to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the epic 1818 battle, the state government lost no time in rounding up Dalit protesters.

If strong personalities of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah helped BJP come to power at the centre and many states thereafter, the need of the hour is to win more friends ahead of the 2019 general elections.

US, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait undermined the recently released special report of Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) and rich nations hiding behind US blocked any progress on climate finance resulting into a stalemate.

After this round of Assembly elections, the BJP’s bargaining power vis-à-vis its allies stands diminished.

Though the Congress would have been happy with a victory in two of the three Hindi heartland states, its emphatic win in Chhattisgarh proved to be the proverbial icing on the cake.

The biggest loser in the assembly elections is BJP chief Amit Shah, whose detractors within the party and RSS will now gain traction and lobby for a replacement. This is unlikely before the 2019 polls, however.

Political violence is a distant reality in the state. So much so that a recent video of a Congress cavalcade of vehicles honking while driving past a town square where another party's campaign rally was being held was widely circulated on social media and...

If the final outcome on December 11 shows the Congress winning any other state in addition to Rajasthan and Mizoram, Rahul Gandhi would get the chance to fight another day, perhaps in great style too.

The Congress high command should encourage giving a patient hearing to its Kerala state unit, which has taken a position against SC judgment and its implementation.

A few days after the historic ruling, there have been murmurs of discontent within a section of the Hindu community in the state.

Politicians are more susceptible to false criminal cases as they have a number of adversaries ranging from those in opponent political parties to those within their own parties and still those within their electoral constituencies.

It is extremely unfortunate to see that Army men are going to the courts to fight cases that have an institutional significance. The government should pursue the AFSPA case in the Supreme Court, not individual soldiers.

I humbly submit that no female or male child in this country is safe from prying predators at school, street or confines of own home. Nonetheless, even compared with dismal national record, the Muzaffarpur saga must make us as a nation collectively put ou...

The bench hearing the case issued notice to the Union government, calling for them to explain their position in two weeks while orally observing the potential for this project towards “creating a surveillance state”.

Mumbai city has a lot of romance attached to it. It is the place everyone in India believes there is opportunity to make it big. The place houses the richest industrialists, sportsmen, stock market as well as its popular export, Bollywood.

The pride in being 'Bharatiya' and ‘Bhratiyata’ is ridiculed and rationalised. The communists have a deep and sinister design. They have a past of shaming ‘Bharatiya’ so that nationalism is looked down upon.