Opinion

As the city evolved from a clutch of marshy islands, the Mumbai Police — originally launched in 1699 as the ‘Bhandari militia' — started using horses for patrolling in the 19th century.

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.

Political parties have a huge responsibility as they are riding a tiger if they instigate the students to take a violent path. Guided properly, the youth will emerge as excellent future leaders of India.

The JD(U) performed poorly when it fought the polls independently. For the BJP, the recent Jharkhand poll outcome is a lesson as it would have reached the magic number had it fought with the AJSU Party, which secured nearly 9 per cent votes.

The NRC or National Registrar of Citizens is yet to be even formulated. But some people who call themselves ‘liberal’ have already concluded the contours of the policy in their own minds.

An analysis of the new legislation shows that it passes the test laid down in Article 14 of the Constitution in terms of intelligible differentia and reasonable nexus.

When Rahul conveyed his decision to quit after the party’s defeat in the 2019 general elections, it was assumed that he would be persuaded to withdraw his resignation.

While the broad idea of the scheme appears more to weed out duplicate or bogus ration-card holders who avail subsidised foodgrain benefits, it may leave out genuine beneficiaries if their cards are not seeded to Aadhaar.

Manmohan Singh was keen to step down from the planning commission after the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi described the panel as a 'bunch of jokers'.

Though both Tamil superstars announced their political intentions around the same time after the passing away of former chief ministers J Jayalalithaa and M Karunanidhi, it took a couple of years for them to think of coming together.

Such was his heart’s full involvement and commitment to the work for the people of disadvantaged social classes that he remembered everyone, who came to him with some grievance, by their name even when they revisited him after a long gap.

Shiv Sena has been a proud practitioner of its radical Hindutva ideology laced with parochial objectives and this aspect of Sena’s past is causing acute discomfort to the Congress leadership.

Whether Infosys bosses are guilty of the charges hurled against them recently will be known in a few days, but one wonders why few, if any, bother about the massive scams and wrongdoings by the promoters and top executives of other companies.

In spite of a ‘Modi hurricane’ at the national level, the BJP in Kerala couldn’t even manage to get a seat, and lost Thiruvananthapuram by a margin of 99,989 votes.

On World Mental Health Day, men from across the country took to social media to voice their thoughts on how rigid gender norms about what it means to be a man have caged them in a way that is detrimental to their mental wellbeing.

The Ramlilas in Delhi have come to be affiliate of one political party or the other. This time we had Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on one stage and the Congress leadership on the other.