Opinion

Under the current situation, the subject of health has also been taken back from the elected government by the Lieutenant Government, albeit using the disaster management act.

After coming to power, one of the earliest decisions of the Modi government was to issue a general approval in July 2014 enabling the creation of road network by Border Roads Organisation (BRO) within 100 km of aerial distance from the LAC.

Digital technologies are slowly but surely narrowing the developmental distance between Bharat and India. Strangely, the prolonged nationwide lockdown necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated this phenomenon.

Despite making significant progress in solar power generation since 2014, India’s domestic solar equipment manufacturing industry has not been able to capitalise on the opportunity.

While industrial activities will restart slowly and gradually, we need to understand why these unfortunate events keep happening? Does the lockdown have any relationship with these occurrences? And how they can be stopped from recurring in future?

Manoj Tiwari remained party president for almost four years but could never rise beyond his image of a Bhojpuri singer who could win polls regaling audiences with rendition of his lewd songs which at times bordered to being vulgar.

During this entire period when India has been fighting its battle against coronavirus, the opposition remained largely conspicuous by its silence and inactivity. Such a silence can be attributed to two factors which are perceptional and situational in nat...

How has Modi performed in the past one year? He would get an A-plus for the first half, while the second half is full of hits and misses.

The locust infestation in East Africa and India could aggravate with the monsoons, which creates a favourable environment for them to breed. Food insecurity is already prevalent in these regions, and the locust further threaten food security and access to...

For Modi's legions, he is living proof of the Great Man Theory, the leader who arises when society needs him most. But as the year progressed, the man who had won the nation's confidence, appeared to be losing his own.

The filth all around that most Indians suffer also seems to have strengthened their immunity against flus. This perhaps explains the relatively lower effect of the coronavirus.

India can undoubtedly grow at 16 percent for the next three decades as we have all the constituents for becoming a great nation.

The elections will be fought on the issue of success or failure of the Bihar government in handling the influx of lakhs of ‘Pravasi Biharis’ after being rendered jobless due to closure of factories due to Covid-19 lockdown.

It is notable that India has reported a positivity rate of 4% in all the tests done, comparably less than the worst-affected countries.

If the Union Cabinet led by Modi takes 50 days of lockdown to think through and comes up with this as their best shot, the Indian peasantry better stop expecting anything of the Centre.

Veteran leader Eknath Khadse, who has threatened to quit the BJP, has touched on a larger issue which has struck a chord with many--the preference given to 'outsiders' who joined the party from the Congress and the NCP.