A situation that called for extraordinary steps
The government and the civic administration have been found to be severely wanting responding to Chennai floods.
The government and the civic administration have been found to be severely wanting responding to Chennai floods.
Secularism is inherent in the basic structure of the Constitution. The Home Minister cannot presume to forget constitutional history, and assume that constitutional values such as secularism are just meaningless words to be redacted from a document
When nature turns ruthless, it becomes a story that numbers alone cannot capture. According to the Indian Meteorological Department, Chennai received 1,487.7 mm of rain compared to the annual avera...
Homes under water, jobs and belongings gone, Good Samaritans to their rescue — families like Rajeswari’s are looking for any sense of permanence
2015’s El Niño on course to being the strongest ever.
Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri says he is at a loss to understand why he did not have an opportunity of interacting with M.K. Narayanan when the latter was National Security Adviser
Disasters bring out either the best or the very worst in people and organisations. Chennai, in the days immediately after the worst phase of the November-December floods, saw both in equal measure...
Just days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached out to his predecessor, Manmohan Singh, and Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a conciliatory move to avert a deadlock in Parliament, the Rajya...
We read with surprise the Editorial, “Dangerous provocation” (Nov. 26...
Cancer is, unfortunately, often described as a terminal disease. So, when a doctor starts telling the patient that the result of the tests is a “malignant” tumour, patients lose confidence. They a...
The new plan in New Delhi for even and odd-numbered private vehicles to ply on alternate days next year is destined to fail. Affluent residents are bound to have vehicles that sport such registrat...
India stands to gain from massive renewable energy investments and achieve energy efficiency in key sectors under a Climate Agreement, a global coalition of business organisations working on low c...
Hitting out at ruling AIADMK for “delayed” relief measures to flood-affected people, DMK chief Karunanidhi on Sunday said his party has started distributing relief without depending on the state.
If the United Kingdom had the same gun laws as the United States, as observers in London were quick to point out, the
Congress on Sunday termed the secret meeting of National Security Advisors of India and Pakistan in Bangkok as a “grand betrayal” of the Modi government and reflection of “flip-flops” over its Pak...
From a bird's eye view atop the Kotwali Darwaza, one finds borders are little more than lines drawn in the geographical sands that can shift, as the Great Calcutta Killing had wrought in the past, with the flux of time and history
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday said it has decided to strengthen its Gujarat unit ahead of the 2017 State Assembly polls. As a part of the exercise, AAP national leaders, including San...
Ever since the discovery of X-rays, researchers have exposed fruit flies, mice and other living beings to radiation. An atom bomb survivor study and medical and industrial exposures to radiation h...
The airport was shut down last Tuesday night after heavy downpour flooded the runway and all other operating areas.
Former J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday welcomed the talks between National Security Advisors of India and Pakistan in Bangkok, stating that holding the dialogue away from media glare...
The recent Supreme Court verdict, which allowed dance bars to reopen in Maharashtra, is good news for the dancers who had lost their livelihoods, but, for the city's 15,000 musicians who played in bar ‘orchestras’, it's very likely the death knell
Yadav admitted that it can become a challenge for the bowling side when the batsmen are not ready to attack.
Vijay Viraaj (Ajit Singh up) won the first division of the Umraolal Gupta Memorial Cup, the feature event of the races held here on Sunday. The winner is owned by M/s. Vijay Racing & Farms Pri...