Opinion

While in 2017, the number of deaths due to fire stood at 25, this year the total deaths from fire incidents have jumped to 43.

The past few months have seen a slew of wildlife deaths — elephants killed by overhanging wires, tiger cubs crushed by a hurtling train and lions killed by speeding cars. None of this is new and it is unlikely to stop unless those making the policies give...

The police force will be able to serve better the country and its people without the chaotic interference of vested interests, power play and prejudice.

Social media has completely changed the manner in which we interact with each other. Distances and borders have all but disappeared online. However, it is a truism that for every positive there is also a negative.

The prime minister's visit is being seen as a strategy of the BJP to pin the Congress leadership in their respective constituencies in the 2019 general election.

At this stage, Sajad is trying to reach out to alienated members of other parties and work for his political party, which can emerge as the third alternative in Kashmir.

The citizenship bill exposed the traditional fault-line between the two major communities, which dates back to British Raj days.

Udhhav Thackeray’s party has repeatedly questioned the BJP’s commitment in building the Ram Temple.

Civil-military relations are not only about control and influence over the military but also about how a soldier is viewed and respected by the government he serves.

BJP leader and ex-Delhi CM Madan Lal Khurana, once called Dilli ka Sher, left this world without much ado.

The Aadhaar programme’s biggest selling point was the near universality of an identity system that did not suffer from the widespread fraud that India’s other identity systems suffer from. This investigation has revealed deep fault lines in that claim.

If we go by the past record, the dream and aspiration of Hindu Rashtra is based on the exclusion of minorities. As a result the Muslims have been subject to slurs and dog-whistle politics.

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.

Of the total votes polled for all four posts in DUSU elections this year, NOTA (none of the above) alone got 27,739 votes. NOTA votes polled for each post were: President – 6211, VP – 6445, Secretary -6810 and Joint Secretary – 8273.

Bhagwat’s speech would be setting the agenda of a new national debate. And it would go way beyond the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. This is beginning of the battle of narratives between those who want to break India and those who want to take India to the next le...

The argument being put forth is that as a political outfit, the Congress cannot take a sentimental view, more so when its own party president was the victim.