Opinion

The state government must understand that merely establishing policies and programmes is not going to make much difference. The entire government machinery needs to pack a punch in terms of intent and implementation: to aggressively counter this challenge...

Young, hardworking talent that should have been entrusted with growing the Congress in their states have been nominated for the Rajya Sabha while people who have tirelessly worked for the party have been ignored.

Home minister Amit Shah said in Parliament on Wednesday that investigations so far suggest the rioting was organised and that it could not have been done without advance planning.

Straws in the wind suggest a rising undercurrent of discord between the Shiv Sena and the NCP, especially on issues related to the home department.

Arvind Kejriwal is now talking of Bharat and not just Delhi. But to achieve his dream he has to first emerge as an important opposition leader.

The government needs to ensure a robust e-infrastructure so that the invoice reporting process on the portal does not suffer from glitches as seen during the filing of returns.

Apart from ministerial highhandedness, statist policies, and anti-industry attitude, businesspersons also suffer because of the over-bearingness of tax officials.

It’s likely that Muslim religious leaders have been deliberately kept at a distance to ensure that the demonstrations, right now largely seen as inclusive, are not given a religious angle.

Farmers have started organising themselves in cooperatives and pooling their cattle for making ‘khawa’ (milk solids) from their daily milk production, which has a better shelf-life compared to milk and also fetches a higher price.

The real import of the amendment is to accord a special refugee status to specific groups from specific nations with citizenship as the final destination in a refugee’s journey.

The outcome of recently held Jharkhand assembly elections suggests that the BJP is losing its grip on the tribal support base. In Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, too, the party could not succeed in keeping its tribal base intact.

If a company is in such a bad financial condition and wanted taxpayers’ support to continue its services, then it would have closed down its operations even if there was no Supreme Court judgement.

If the telcos are guilty of brushing the crushing, mounting liabilities under the carpet and keeping their shareholders in the dark, once again it is the auditors who have to be blamed more for abdicating their advisory and whistleblowing role.

Clearly, the government does not want to take any chances on law and order in the hill state which had been one of the most disturbed states in the country.

On World Mental Health Day, men from across the country took to social media to voice their thoughts on how rigid gender norms about what it means to be a man have caged them in a way that is detrimental to their mental wellbeing.

For a very long time after the robbery was committed, the cops did not know Damayanti Ben was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s niece.