Opinion

Abolition of DDT will encourage foreign holding companies to invest in India without having to worry about innovative structures to repatriate profits from India.

Till the government acknowledges there is a slowdown and actively works towards tackling it, piecemeal measures won’t work.

Several companies use the ESOP mechanism to motivate and strengthen their relationship with their employees by sharing the growth-benefits to make them stick to the enterprise and help them create wealth in the long run.

In Budget 2020, we expect a heavy backing of women-oriented schemes, including the ones for building homes and shelters for widows, and a boost to existing flagship programmes like ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, ‘Mahila Shakti Kendras’ scheme, etc.

Both chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is leading the BJP campaign in the city, from their own experiences realise that immediate issues matter more to voters than social good.

In 2015, local issues along with corruption had dominated the electoral scene in Delhi. But this time there could be an amalgam of local and national issues, particularly with protests raging in several parts of the country, including the capital, against...

A transition to soft Hindutva by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena may pave the way for an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party to take on the ruling triumvirate of Shiv Sena, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party.

Despite his history of making stinging, intemperate statements, Raut — who combines the outspokenness of a Shiv Sainik and the impulse of an old-school crime reporter — has been forced to retract very rarely.

When the students of such an institute with a great legacy raise slogans calling for the disintegration of the country is undoubtedly a worrisome development for various reasons.

While Kerala’s fragile environmental ecosystem gets a big backing with these judgments, the question is: where will Kerala generate jobs from after the hospitality and real estate sector take the blow?

The unruly behaviour of Indian politicians stands out in sharp contrast to the manner in which their counterparts abroad conduct themselves.

Rather than rejecting the CAA-NRC combination as ‘anti-Muslim’, the concern of informed citizens should have been that the CAA-NRC combination is ‘pro-efficiency’ ensuring safeguards, due process and inbuilt checks to avoid panic and glaring errors.

Farmers bemoan that the belated decision taken two days ago to import up to 1.2 tonnes of onion from a consortium of countries or onion-producing countries will result in the imported bulbs landing at Indian shores when the farmers will be ready to harves...

Both Yogesh Tyagi of Delhi University and Mamidala Jagdeesh Kumar of JNU have not been part of the academic communities which they are leading today.

Freedom fighter Ramakrishna Bajaj, Rahul Bajaj’s uncle, was constantly harassed throughout the 21 month-long Emergency, during which Sanjay Gandhi and his team sought to wrest control of the Vishwa Yuvak Kendra.

One need not be a political analyst to know that venality and unscrupulousness has increased since the anti-defection law was enacted.