Will Modi opt for early general election?
By Amulya Ganguli The synchronisation of the next general election with the assembly polls of 2018 to set a pattern may not be the only reason why the Narendra Modi government is said to be…
By Amulya Ganguli The synchronisation of the next general election with the assembly polls of 2018 to set a pattern may not be the only reason why the Narendra Modi government is said to be…
By Peter Paul De Groote Over the last two years, more than 100 medical facilities managed or supported by the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) have been bombed in conflict…
By Amit Kapoor On the 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged citizens to create a new India by 2022 by freeing the country from poverty, corruption, dirt, terrorism, casteism,…
By Frank F. Islam As India celebrates its 71st Independence Day, it must remember the sacrifices made by leaders of the freedom movement. It was their vision, idealism, commitment to democracy, secularism and pluralism that…
By Raja Bagga The annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) says that the average overcrowding rate in Indian prisons is 14 per cent. What the report does not reveal is that 149…
By Vikas Datta “Conquering kings their titles take..” begins a Christian hymn, but what about those of books that demand you take a second look at them for something inviting, intriguing, or even incongruous in…
By Amulya Ganguli It has again become Sonia Gandhi’s responsibility to put together the broken pieces of opposition unity. She successfully performed this task in 2004, thereby paving the way for the Congress’s return to…
By Anil K. Rajvanshi My father went to jail in the 1942 Quit India movement. He was interned for 2.5 years in Delhi and Lucknow jails and was released in 1946. I often used to…
By Amit Kapoor The RBI expectedly cut the repo rate last week by 25 basis points, bringing the key lending rate to a six-year low of 6 percent. This came in the backdrop of a…
By Mayank Chhaya The problem with issuing a dire ultimatum as a first response to a traditionally bellicose regime is that the one issuing it is boxed in. That could well be the problem that…
By Rekha Babu Breast milk is recommended as the first source of nutrition for a newborn. It is considered as the sole source of nutrition for the first six months of life that helps an…
By Vikas Datta In his five-decade-long, acclaimed and much-awarded musical career, this sharecropper’s son not only brought his genre into the mainstream, but also battled fame’s temptations to remain true to the simpler, clean-cut but…
By Veturi Srivatsa A series in Sri Lanka has always been tough and no captain before Virat Kohli won back-to-back series in the island nation. The record books don’t show that India played a Sri…
By Amit Kapoor The data released by the Bloomberg Billionaire Index reveals some shocking statistics about the rise of inequality in India. It showed that the top 20 industrialists in India added a staggering $50…
By Amulya Ganguli On August 31, 1942, Lord Linlithgow wrote to Winston Churchill: “I am engaged here in meeting by far the most serious rebellion since that of 1857, the gravity and extent of which…
By Amulya Ganguli Narendra Modi must be realising by now that it is easier to demolish than to construct. He is unlikely to have spent sleepless nights before abolishing the Planning Commission. Instead, it was…
By Bhaswati Mukherjee The UK after Teresa May’s self-imposed “Brexit General Election” reveals a stalemated society and politics, deeply divided between those who support and those who passionately reject the decision to leave the EU….
By Vikas Datta Title: The Retreat of Western Liberalism; Author: Edward Luce; Publisher: Little, Brown/Hachette India; Pages: 240; Price: Rs 599 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) The Indian Insititute of Technology, Delhi, has received about 50 proposals for research on benefits of cow milk and urine, the government informed Parliament on Wednesday. The government however said…
By Sanu George Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan remains the tough guy of the state’s politics unlike his predecessors, who rarely lost their cool even in difficult situations. His “get out” direction to the photo-journalists…