Opinion

The MNS chief launched an image makeover for his party by adopting a saffron flag, signifying his formal shift to Hindutva, and is scheduled to hold a rally on Sunday against illegal Bangladeshi and Pakistani immigrants.

Apart from the much analysed caste factor, the Indian voter may consider ideology, policies and corruption as the issues that decide where the vote goes.

While the estimated growth has been slashed to 5%, the possibilities of reduction in the policy interest rate are also receding. This may dampen the hopes of increase in investment, housing and consumer demand.

India is already struggling with its fiscal deficit target and there is near unanimity among analysts that the country will breach the 3.3% mark for 2019-20 by a significant margin.

If Rajinikanth sticks to his anti-Periyar remarks at the risk of being branded ‘communal’, the next Tamil Nadu elections may actually show whether Dravidian ideology remains unanimously accepted or whether there is a challenger.

At least in terms of exiting Air India completely and lessening the employee plus debt burden on the buyer, the government appears to have done well this time.

While Arvind Kejriwal has issued a ‘guarantee card’ assuring that he will continue to subsidise living in Delhi, the BJP’s push for a three-tier government is clear indication that the process of regularisation would stop if the party loses these election...

Despite a flailing economy and falling GST collections, the Chowkidar, like all superheroes, seemed invulnerable to the arrows of opponents. But towards the end of the year, it looked as if they had found his kryptonite.

The Organisation of Islamic Countries has been selective in taking up the Islamic cause as overriding commercial concerns often trump religious affinity.

While many universities have transgender/others on their admission forms, the inclusion is only up to that point. This is piecemeal for a simple reason: almost all the structures, facilities and events that occur in a university or college uphold a gender...

The capital has been a victim of airborne ‘toxic terrorists’ striking unhindered at millions without exception especially around winter months, during Diwali and the crop waste (stubble) burning season for many years.

Delhi’s struggles with pollution can be traced back to the Asiad Games of 1982 when the capital saw large-scale construction and influx of people from other north Indian states.

The author was a part of a fact–finding team from Group of Intellectuals and Academicians that visited the Valley in October. She writes on behalf of the team.

These telecom companies have only themselves to blame for thinking they could get away by short-changing the exchequer of its due share of the profits from the telecom boom.

The courts have objected to the rise of unauthorised colonies as unplanned urbanisation of the city, more than the pollution from crop-waste burning in neighbouring states, has added to the capital’s environmental woes.

Naresh Chandra Saxena, IAS topper of 1964 batch, writes in his book that in 1998-99, several women in Odisha had been prosecuted and jailed because they had kept brooms in their houses which was then against the government policy.