Opinion

Instead of turning off the spending tap, as some large state governments have already begun doing, the comparatively well off ones may need to actually raise their expenditures despite revenues drying up.

Though Uddhav was expected to contest the elections for one of the nine seats for the state legislative council due in April, the coronavirus epidemic led to the polls being postponed.

The lockdown will undoubtedly have inevitable economic consequences; therefore, it must be lifted in a carefully calibrated manner with an aim to save both lives and livelihoods.

While it may appear inhumane to stop such desperate migrants at quarantine camps, the Bihar government is not fully-equipped to deal with the situation if the cases multiply in geometric progression and enter community level.

The government has neither explained the source of this Rs 1.7 lakh crore package nor can it ensure that the poor get immediate relief through many of the measures announced.

Discussions over how soon a Chief Justice should be inducted in Parliament after retirement only results in muckraking. Every government rules the roost and does what it wants.

Swathes of industries, small and medium enterprises and almost every sector stares at myriad challenges and all eyes are on the government for a substantial stimulus and recovery package.

The Bhim Army chief has derived his political strategy from the same model that Kanshi Ram developed during the initial phase of the Bahujan movement in Uttar Pradesh.

Whatever the fallout of the abrogation of Article 370 maybe, the government has clearly shown that ordinary Kashmiris will be given the same privileges and pride of place that any other Indian citizen gets.

The VBA’s meltdown after the Lok Sabha election and the NCP’s internal politics may have necessitated the need for Pawar to reach out to an auxiliary constituency of Dalits and other backwards.

The future of the India-US defence trade relationship will ultimately be tested against two touchstones: India’s continuing geopolitical promiscuity, and America’s zeal about guarding its technology.

The party has not yet found a positive vocabulary of politics in the post-2019 period. It still relies heavily on an anti-Congress, anti-Pakistan, anti-Muslim, and anti-communist plank.

In a paradigm shift in its social philosophy, the RJD leader has floated the A-Z principle encompassing every section of society, deviating from the core formula of Muslim-Yadav devised by his father and party supremo Lalu Prasad.

It is too soon to predict if Kanhaiya's Jan Gan Man Yatra would dent the poll prospects of the NDA or enhance the chances of the opposition Grand Alliance in the assembly elections later this year. But the response to his public meetings has forced the tw...

The fallacy of whataboutery is infinitely uglier than bad old vices like mendacity, corruption, and misuse of power.

It needs to be seen who within the JD(U) will now be in that select group of leaders who Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar trusts blindly.