Opinion

This administration has shown that it is willing to inflict serious and permanent damage to the US relationships built over years.

Quad is meant to encourage China and/or other actors to be responsible members of the comity of nations and qualitatively raise the cost of any misadventure by them.

If Covid-19 were a mountain to climb, the Spanish flu of 1918 would have hewn the arduous path we currently tread. A century of progress has gone by, yet we fumble to find a smoother, faster, and surer route to the summit.

As legislators and important stakeholders in policymaking, we must engage at the community level, build partnerships and work toward removing socio-cultural barriers that affect the reproductive rights and sexual well-being of young people in our country.

It was a sad end for Sasikala’s political mission on March 4 as the AIADMK rejected her call for unity and she preferred to quit politics rather than affect the chances of the party in the April 6 polls.

For an offence to be the “rarest of the rare”, the emphasis cannot just be on the brutality of the offence, sentencing guidelines also require the State to furnish proof that the accused is beyond reform.

The recent report of 103 cases detected from a single society in Bengaluru after a party indicates a heavy spread, typical of mutant strains. Maharashtra has again shown a surge in cases.

Overwhelmed by its abject failure at handling the coronavirus pandemic, the MVA government found itself further pummelled by citizens for its mishandling of the Sushant Singh Rajput case as well as many urban and rural issues.

If vaccine coverage is not scientific and optimal, it might facilitate newer and deadlier mutations in viruses that evade the immune response. In light of this danger, people must get vaccine shots in recommended time, and governments must not let up the...

By tweeting in support of protests against the new farm laws, Greta did her own cause the greatest disservice. The new laws will end the water-guzzling paddy cultivation in Punjab.

The poem and its placement on the front-page with reports about the controversy make it clear that the Sena is deriving vicarious pleasure from the government’s snub to Koshyari, who has been accused by MVA ministers of politicizing the Raj Bhawan and tur...

In democracy, debate, discussion, advocacy, peaceful protests are important but the tool to shape the decision-making at the helm is voting.

A key takeaway from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech is the government’s focus on disinvestment, a major source for raising money for infrastructure investment.

The government must establish ‘clarity’ in economic action through a comprehensive three-five year fiscal plan, which can lay the roadmap for economic recovery.

The spectrum of the governance challenges for the new team are complex and multi-layered, beginning with the domestic political polarisation that the Trump constituency had stoked, a public health system in disarray, as well as economic, foreign policy, s...

The political arithmetic has emboldened the PAGD to reiterate its oft-repeated message that the result should be seen as a referendum on the status of J&K and Article 370. The BJP sees the same result as a triumph of democracy and clear assertion of suppo...