Opinion

Not only is the continued contraction in the economy a big headache for the second term of Modi government, no answers are forthcoming on how PM's dream of making India a $5 trillion economy will be realised.

Waiting in the wings like a raptor hovering over its prey, the BJP will be watching, in the hope that the alliance will collapse under the weight of its contradictions, helping it move in.

While state governments are passing legislation to thwart ‘outsiders’, several organisations in the region have already chalked out a series of protests and vowed to launch door-to-door campaigns to make the people aware of the controversial bill.

While President’s Rule has been imposed, the Shiv Sena’s attempted alignment with the Congress and NCP, which comes after around five years of wrangling and a political tug-of-war with ally BJP, has multiple layers in its causes and impact, and cannot be...

Now that the verdict has been made, we should move forward together as today marks the beginning of a 'New India’, where the past and the present collectively build a strong base for the ‘Dawn of New India'.

A participatory mechanism is the need of the hour so that the lives of locals are not threatened and these canines can be efficiently maintained.

The measure shows that the government has recognised the importance of feedback that was coming from all stakeholders

Sonia Gandhi’s announcement on Haryana is bound to have an impact on other states — such as Madhya Pradesh — where rebellion is brewing.

The central bank’s annual report contains several crucial observations as well as indications to what the government may do while framing policy for the remaining part of 2019-20.

The late Vidya Sinha embodied the Indian rather than Western archetype of feminine beauty. She was the ‘girl next door’ in the real sense of the term.

The excluded number notwithstanding, what is most certain is that the NRC could have been compiled in a more efficient manner with greater preparedness by the government.

Are we really denigrating issues like violence against women and harassment and disguising them as "love" to sell an age old wine that has been repackaged for the nth time?

Instead of mulling over the actual causes of electoral reverses, Mahagathbandhan constituents have been singing different tunes indicating their inner contradictions and inconsistencies.

The elephant in the room is the fear that the government will systematically set about unearthing skeletons from closets.

Samajwadi Party in UP has so glaringly failed to homogenise all other backward castes that today it is considered just the party of Yadavs.

Jail is not new for Zardari who has previously spent time in jail on corruption charges, but was not convicted and later on became the country's president from 2008 until 2013.