Opinion

The Kathua rape is a national shame. It shows how powerful people can get together to create divide among the commoners for their own benefit. It shows, yet again, that women are not safe – even if it’s an eight-year-old.

The problem is with the radio silence by the BJP leadership even when it knows Tamil Nadu is agitated over the manner in which the Centre is seeking not to implement the Supreme Court verdict on Cauvery.

History and statistics bear testimony to how law has been used repeatedly to suppress Dalits, tribals and other socially backward sections of the society. Nobody disputes the fact that it is only during protests from these sections of the society that pol...

Politically speaking, Tamil Nadu has been reduced to a caricature of its earlier powerful self under a Jayalalithaa and a Karunanidhi.

With a year to go for elections, playing catch-up is hardly going to give the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) any confidence.

Two of the three candidates are rank outsiders — media baron Soumya Ranjan Patnaik and education entrepreneur Achyuta Samanta.

In a country where politicians are wishy-washy about their ambitions, K Chandrashekar Rao has come clean on what he has in mind. He announced that he wishes to lead a non-BJP, non-Congress alternative a.k.a. a Third Front at the Centre.

Her family circumstances have been salaciously recounted and health professionals closely questioned on the hazards of slimming pills and cosmetic procedures. The implication being that the Bollywood star had subjected herself to dangerous mental and phys...

Ethically and morally, to put up the portrait of Jayalalithaa, who would have most likely gone to jail in the disproportionate assets case but for her demise, is wrong.

The resurgent Buddhism is the symbol of radical transformation in modern India. Buddhism has become the mainstream religion after a gap of many centuries. Besides Scheduled Castes, the Tribals and OBCs are gradually turning towards it. Buddhism is holding...

The allocation of Rs 1,48,528 crore to bring state-of-the-art facilities such as WiFi and CCTVs for the Indian Railways is a welcome move.

Even if we do clean up our processes and streamline the organizational structure, with these allocations and the size of the military, there will be serious issues with modernisation as well as with infrastructure building.

In 2017, the Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) reported more than 450 fire emergencies, out of which five reported casualties.

Panda too could not have been entirely unaware of what was coming, given his deeds and words (mostly through Twitter) over the last several months had repeatedly embarrassed the party and would have invited disciplinary action in any other political party...

It is now up to Prime Minister Modi to guide India economically, politically, socially and culturally to take one of the other chairs at the head table of the World. A place that has always belonged to India for many centuries.

The Shiv Sena-BJP alliance had some 25 years back, in 1995 to be exact, ended the one party rule of the Congress in the state and had created a Hindutva vote bank by attracting OBCs, lower and urban middle class and youth.