The Union government will hold a meeting on Wednesday to finalise the draft civil aviation policy. Sources said Union Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Minister of State Civil Aviation ...
Article mocked the “irreligious” attitude in the State and cast aspersions on Muslim youth
Congress disrupts RS, demands Jaitley’s resignation
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejrwal on Tuesday demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resignation “for carrying out a flop raid on my office to save [Union Minister] Arun Jaitley.” He was speaking a...
The Double-Decker express train that plies daily between Bangalore and Chennai hit Platform 1 at Central railway station on Tuesday due a technical fault and damaged a portion of it. No one was injur...
If Mr. Kejriwal brings a certain freshness to politics, he is still the outsider. Mr. Kumar has the advantage of being trusted more by fellow politicians
Why we must be very cautious of the current effort to reduce the powers of the Rajya Sabha and to dilute the provisions of the anti-defection legislation
Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has declared that Yoga would be introduced as a subject in State-run and government-aided schools from 2016.
It’s been over a year since minimum qualifications for contesting local body polls were made mandatory in Rajasthan. Though the law did give a chance to the educated youth to replace seasoned local l...
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s Srinagar tour sparked stone-throwing in downtown areas on Tuesday. Mr. Sayeed, however, said “his endeavour would be to end political uncertainty, which has bro...
What the ‘juvenile’ in the Delhi gang rape case will be going back to will be state surveillance despite having served his legal time, threats of vigilante justice, social exclusion and poverty
Echoing the tone of the monsoon session when Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan had suspended several members of the Congress from the House for a few days, she rebuked Congress MPs again on Tuesday s...
As part of its ease-of-doing business policy, the Union government has lifted restrictions and given security clearance for 1,671 projects, almost double the number (815) in 2014. In 2013, when the U...
Union Minister Arun Jaitley cannot shrug off the allegations levelled against him (“Jaitley files libel case against Kejriwal”, Dec.22), nor can he, by virtue of his position as the BJP’s chief strat...
New Delhi’s approach towards its neighbours has increasingly been marked by muscularity, evident in its recent attempts to browbeat Nepal into carrying out amendments to its Constitution. The reactio...
Patriarchy may be willing to allow men from every caste to be priests, but it won’t allow women from even the so-called Brahminical castes to perform priestly duties in temples. The article, “Failing...
The turnout for all Indian Super League (ISL) matches was quite significant giving rise to the impression that India is slowly developing a passion for soccer (Editorial, Dec.22). However, one fails ...
A controversy erupted in Chhattisgarh after cartoons linking journalists to Maoists went viral on a mobile messaging app and social media groups on Tuesday, a day after protests by scribes against th...
It is strange that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now advised police officers to “identify journalists who write in [the] national interest and provide them with information” (“Modi for a media-sav...
The media does not appear to be correct in reporting cases of sexual harassment in educational institutions, in particular the situation in JNU (“JNU top on list of sexual harassment cases”, Dec.15)....
The conference in Kutch was a landmark, where there was a frank exchange of views between the Prime Minister and State DGPs on how to bring the police closer to the people. There is an acute need to divorce politics from policing
The VHP has said the supply of stones would increase in the coming months.
Defending RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s controversial remark on reservation, India’s Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thaawar Chand Gehlot said on Tuesday that the remark was made strictly in respo...
The first ever Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) audit of the ambitious health scheme for ex-servicemen has found serious irregularities and deficiencies in its implementation, resulting in finan...
