Opinion

The significance of India's active participation in various UN bodies underscores its commitment to the organisation's principles and objectives

This is not an ordinary general election. There are extremely important things at stake; advantages that India rather not fritter away

Almost each one of the 27 pages of the Calcutta high court order captures vividly and tragically the complete breakdown of trust between a people and their elected government

Each time PM Modi visited Tamil Nadu in the last few years, he made it a point to wear the 'veshti', sending out a strong message that he feels at home when he is among the people of Tamil Nadu, who are proud inheritors of a rich cultural legacy

As the country faces an uncertain future and fades out of the world’s mind space, it is Pakistan’s homegrown network of terrorism that has come back to haunt it. Proxy warfare is never a one-way street. Pakistan is learning this the hard way

On one side, Rahul Gandhi is planning to pull down the economy with grandiose welfarism without clear plans to increase revenue pie, on the other he wishes to double the Indian GDP in ten years. Can a Robinhood economy grow at that rate?

BJP’s desire to break the 400-mark barrier isn't borne out of a ‘hegemonic impulse’ or an 'undemocratic machination' conceived to marginalise the Opposition. The idea, apparently, is part of an ongoing project to expand the party's social base

Pakistan’s encounter with the repercussions of its own strategies was not a matter of ‘if’ but rather ‘when’. The government must place a premium on peace as the cornerstone of Pakistan’s economic revival. Otherwise, it is doomed to continue down a path o...

The members of the alliance never tire of pointing out that the ‘I’ in I.N.D.I.A stands for inclusive. With Rahul Gandhi deciding to contest from Wayanad he stands to split the secular vote thereby undermining the very raison d’etre of the I.N.D.I Allianc...

The Opposition seems to have forgotten the UPA era financial impropriety: Bad loans had then jumped by 132 per cent as the Congress granted a whopping Rs 36 lakh crore to corporates by waiving their loans

With the DMK’s first family having been exposed as co-conspirators in the decision to give up India’s claims over Katchatheevu, the party’s fulminations at the Centre come across as severely hypocritical

As a nation, we must move beyond mere condemnation and actively challenge the twisted theological worldview propagated by groups like ISIS. By standing united and rejecting divisive narratives, we can safeguard our incredible Bharat from the clutches of t...

Political parties, angling for various positions, both local and national, should be on guard to ensure that proceeds of drug trafficking and money laundering do not percolate into political campaigns

A look at the list of women candidates finalised by BJP shows that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to take women’s representation in Indian politics to even greater heights

Upadhyay’s ‘Western Media Narratives on India: From Gandhi to Modi’ deals with Western media’s projection of India and its leaders. The scrutiny of the performance of governments has been analysed and exposed for what it is—biased and misconstrued

For the last ten years, it was this Modi-Manohar double-engine government which made a compelling sell for the electorate. Even more, it was perhaps in the last nine months that CM Manohar Lal looked like he had finally come on his own