Opinion
OPINION | As India Stares at Record Unemployment, Govt's Acknowledgement Just First Step Towards Battling Crisis
The government’s own data show that GDP growth was the slowest in five years last fiscal, falling below the 7 per cent mark in 2018-19.
The Answer to Why India Are Playing First World Cup Match So Late Does Not Make Any Sense
Six days since the start of the World Cup, the question on the minds of most Indian cricket fans is why has their team not played a single match yet.
ICC World Cup 2019: A Cup Without the World as New Format Helps Line Pocket of Wealthiest Nations
The 2019 edition of the Cricket World Cup will have only 10 teams vying for the most prized trophy in the gentlemen’s game. The rest of the world can watch.
OPINION | Media Conveniently Ignored the Modi Wave that We All Saw Coming
The ability of a villager near Firozabad to connect the dots all the way from a house, a hand pump to the Prime Minister's doorstep tells you the story of faith and hope that people had in Modi.
OPINION | Is Pragya Thakur the Real Face of BJP?
PM Modi has fielded and supported Thakur unabashedly, calling her the symbolic response in defence of the “Hindu civilization” which is supposedly being demeaned by his opponents.
17 Most Backward Castes May Play Kingmaker as Purvanchal Gears Up to Vote in Final Phase
In eastern UP, the percentage of MBCs is impressive among OBCs to the extent that their vote can influence the outcome to a great extent.
OPINION | The Crippling Cost of India’s Victory in Getting China to Blacklist Masood Azhar
The question for us here is if the Chinese have exploited this connection in India – the timing, after all, of China’s finally lifting its technical hold on sanctioning Azhar in the middle of a general elections in India can only look good for the BJP.
Appeasement or Stereotype? Post Pulwama, Mithalanchal’s Defunct ‘Terror Factories’ Are Main Poll Plank
NDA leaders blamed the appeasement policy of the RJD and Congress for the rise of terrorism and creation of ‘terror factories’ in remote villages of the otherwise peaceful Mithilanchal region.
OPINION | Forcing Lalu Prasad out of Limelight During 2019 Lok Sabha Polls is an Attack on Social Principles
Anyone familiar with the trajectories of various gathbandhans in the last twenty five years will know that one political figure and one party that have been steadfast in their opposition to BJP is Lalu Prasad Yadav and his Rashtriya Janata Dal.
OPINION | Ujjwala Yojana, Jan Dhan and Swachh Bharat NDA Govt's Biggest Hit Schemes, Shows Survey
Health scheme Ayushman Bharat, Skill India, and the Startup India Scheme had only managed to achieve moderate success, showed the survey conducted across 28 states.
OPINION | After Jet Airways Experience, What Will it Take for Indian Aviation to Take Flight Again?
Growth in the aviation industry includes challenges like intense fare wars, challenging operations environment, negligible consumer loyalty, high constraints, and a talent crunch.
OPINION | Chowkidars May Prove to be BJP's Trump Card Against Oppn's Caste Combinations in UP and Bihar
Security guards are important for the BJP as most of them continue to be voters in their hometowns and the opposition would do well to put their heads together to read the message which the Prime Minister seeks to deliver through chowkidars.
OPINION | Not BJP or Congress, Naveen Patnaik’s Real Challenge This Time is the Revolt Within
Naveen Patnaik’s crisis managers, among them a few trusted officers, are working overtime to douse the flames of rebellion that is rapidly assuming the proportions of a wildfire, but only with limited success.
OPINION | Why PM Modi's 'Main Bhi Chowkidar' is Appealing to the Masses This Poll Season
The crux of the Modi phenomenon is about a silent, peaceful and structured revolt by the common people of India against an entitled, corrupt and nepotistic elite that ruled them for sixty years.
OPINION | Can Congress Steer Narrative Back From Chest-thumping Jingoism to Bread-and-butter Issues?
Now that the Lok Sabha polls are round the corner, the Congress has to necessarily unveil its agenda and the issues it plans to highlight in its election campaign.
Questioning Balakot Air Strikes? You're a Traitor: How the Right is Giving Left Taste of Its Own Medicine
It would not be inappropriate to say that the Right is paying the Left back in the same currency. Not long ago, BJP leaders suffered the Left's ad hominem assaults. Every BJP politician was 'communal', 'fascistic'; everything he or she said was 'divisive'...