Opinion

The question in not so much about freebies, but whether Yogi Adityanath and other state-level leaders can leverage Narendra Modi’s programmes.

Now that the government has decided to tax these digital tokens, founders of crypto exchanges are going to the market, claiming their tokens have been recognised, legitimised.

The Budget has taken a forward leap to establish trust-based governance, be it payments to MSMEs or simplification of Income Tax procedures for individuals.

Women’s workforce participation in urban India has fallen further. They continue to shoulder additional online-school responsibilities, mostly juggling two children while managing the house.

New Delhi’s diplomacy will be sorely tested if confronted with a ‘you are either with us or against us’ moment in the event of hostilities flaring up.

It is ironical that the MEA is implicitly disowning and reprimanding someone who belonged to the Indian Foreign Service and held top diplomatic posts.

When did JRD Tata get the Bharat Ratna? His contributions to India are beyond compare and yet he got it near the end of his life, while Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella got it a lot earlier.

The Congress neither has any vote base nor a strong organisation to translate the political discontent into a vote base; it also lacks a strong cadre in UP.

The gains made over the last two years as a result of keeping schools closed will be lost if we reopen them immediately.

Instead of looking at new evidence carefully and responding with reasoned evidence-based critique, respected scholars have resorted to shooting the messenger and stooping to demonstrable falsehoods.

India is among a small group of countries which has the essential elements to provide an ecosystem for manufacturing that can rival China.

The media faction running secessionist propaganda was emboldened by financial and moral support provided by Pakistan’s ISI through separatist organisations like Hurriyat Conference.

Protectionist measures in the name of self-sufficiency cannot foster growth in complex technology supply chains and can lead to discouraging innovation and slow growth.

The Southern film industry has expanded the national imagination, adding greater diversity, new stories and new ways of being Indian.

Most people can’t seem to understand his stance of not taking the vaccine, others believe this is hardly the right fight to fight.

Though India signed its first Free Trade Agreement with Sri Lanka in the late 1990s, upgrading it at the appropriate time has remained an uphill task.