Opinion

Across India, reducing regulatory cholesterol is one thing. But suspending all laws, rules and regulations are like throwing the baby with the bathwater.

Covid-induced uncertainty, the ensuing economic upheaval and tightening of immigration policy make the American dream suddenly seem distant.

While there has been a lot of speculation over a new consultative group on COVID-19 set up by the party and who's in it and who's not, such moves by the Congress interim chief in recent years have done nothing to bolster the organisation, and sometimes ha...

For any country to improve its policies, you need a leader who can criticise the government's position with positive inputs which India has not seen.

Experts say while frequent washing of hands and maintenance of personal hygiene requires much more water, it might not necessarily lead to water shortage in the city in the coming months.

Many pandemics swept the world before COVID-19. Global chaos is more because cumulative wisdom harvested from battling earlier pandemics was largely ignored and so were warnings.

Given the harsh realities, some states have already begun petitioning the government for urgent financial relief.

India’s demographic dividend shall pay richly in fight against the pandemic. Nature has made huge concessions for India.

Let us not forget that this is a war that this world has never seen before. The enemy is invisible, incognito, and striking every single citizen.

A microbe has brought home to us the fragility of our existing models, red-flagging the need for structural shifts in the world economic, social and political order.

Increasing the supply and quality of housing has a multiplier effect on the economy by boosting the primary, manufacturing and service sectors.

Aside from witnessing destruction of the global environment, there are two narratives occupying major focus on the world stage.

The court has noted alarming increase in the number of candidates with criminal records entering politics; 24% MPs had criminal cases pending against them in 2004, which went up to 30% in 2009 and 34% in 2014.

India has a robust economic and strategic engagement with Germany, France and several other EU member-countries and there is no reason why this solidity should not be reflected in India’s ties with the EU as a whole.

The Pulwama terror attack on February 14 last year was a major mistake by Pakistan in the execution of its strategy of a “thousand cuts” to bleed India. In many ways, it was Pulwama that triggered the situation by which Pakistan is strategically on the ba...

The hill forts in the Sahyadri, which served Shivaji Maharaj well when he fought to marauding forces and are hence his living monuments, are crumbling even as a memorial to the Chhatrapati takes shape in Mumbai.