Opinion

In an unmistakable signal to the ruling party and the opposition, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been tasked with reviving the party in Uttar Pradesh.

We have missed the fiscal deficit target for two years and are likely to miss it again this year, say analysts, unless the government resorts to canny accounting to dodge this ball.

This election year will see usual political activity, but what will make these polls unique is the advent of information warfare in the political space.

India waited with bated breath and prayed for the safety of children during the Thai cave rescue, but has turned a blind eye to the plight of miners trapped in Meghalaya.

It should be abundantly clear that excessive reliance on force will not work. Army will neutralise terrorists, but there must be an adequate focus on garnering popular support and creating a climate of hope for the youth. This is squarely the task of the...

While the BJP has not given a ticket to any Muslim leader, the talk of the town is the retention of 85 sitting MLAs, despite the strong anti-incumbency the party is facing in the state as most MLAs fight charges ranging from inefficiency to bunglings.

Narendra Modi came to power on the development plank and would prefer to keep it that way, conscious that the world is watching.

These shocking numbers continue to pour in year after year, with little effort on the part of the road users, drivers, pedestrians and others to follow safety norms.

While the apex court has given a fresh lease of life to the Aadhaar programme, it has also raised various concerns with respect to exclusion and data security, which the UIDAI will be ill-advised to ignore.

Over the weekend, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed measures to cool an overheated economy, the government decided that one of the ways of doing this would be to curb “non-essential” imports.

The attack on the incipient anti-BJP front taps into a darker aspect of voter psychology and aims at inducing a feeling of disgust and suspicion towards its rivals.

Rajasthan University Teachers Association has witnessed 'a decline in the quality of student leadership'.

MK Stalin has put the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam firmly on an anti-BJP course, but can he turn ideological grand standing into a strong electoral alliance for 2019?

Karunanidhi was always a newsman's delight, with his uncanny ability to come up with witty monosyllabic or one-liners in response to tricky questions.

There is very little discussion on the strategic dimension of the problem and the manner in which it is to be countered. The government’s first reaction is to pull up the social media service providers to ensure that their platforms are not being misused.

We have all witnessed brazen engineering and pre-poll rigging. If the analysts say that the results have already been decided, their conclusion must not be far from truth.