Opinion

More than 4 lakh farmers in India have committed suicide between 1995 and 2018—one of the major cases of agrarian distress in the world. Most of them are marginal farmers.

The score card, according to Chinese read-out, was Xi 10 and Biden 0. Even if this is an exaggeration, it still raises the question whether Biden obtained from the meet what he might have hoped for.

Every year, the government announces MSP for 23 crops but procurement at these prices is not guaranteed because MSP is not legally binding on agencies and buyers of these crops.

Mani Shankar Aiyar or Audrey Truschke are not the real problems. The real problem is the prevailing ‘liberal’ preoccupation in finding ‘secular’ traits among some of the most reviled fanatics.

The three weeks Aryan Khan spent in Arthur Road Jail must have left an impact on him, enabling him to see a world far beyond the purified air bubble star children breathe.

There are few waste-to-energy plants in the country despite their many benefits to the environment and the energy economy.

Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, known to work along the Muslim-Yadav axis, has announced alliances with Mahan Dal and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party.

Was it a momentary lapse of reason, which quickly snowballed into a full-blown civil-military crisis in Pakistan? Or was there a method behind the madness?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address denouncing VVIP culture and stressing on Made in India and Made by India will go down in history as a landmark speech.

Narendra Modi’s connect with different sections is also linked to his ability to reach out to different sections of society.

In the matters of security, legislation and notifications alone may not be enough to get the desired results. Success lies in implementation.

Given the sensitive nature of nuclear materials and infrastructure, it is important to create policies that offer short-term and long-term solutions with changing security needs.

The economic growth during the Narendra Modi government has been faster as compared to the growth during the UPA-1 and UPA-II governments.

The British have imposed this illogical humiliation on India, reconfirming a deep feeling of disregard that is obscured with hypocritical honeyed words beloved by Indians

India should consider an indigenous project with Navy’s Submarine Design Group, DRDO, MDL, L&T and others involved in building Scorpene and India’s nuclear submarines.

It started long ago, even when India was ‘nice’ to China; ‘niceties’ have never influenced the Communist regime.