Opinion

Considering the resurgence of Congress in Odisha and the results of recent assembly elections, it makes sense for the BJP to hand over the state to Naveen Patnaik on a platter in the hope that the BJD supremo would continue to bail out the NDA.

The Naveen Patnaik government is now in its 18th year and is due to face simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the next few months.

The government has lowered economic growth rate during the UPA regime by releasing the back-series GDP data, where it shaved off over one percentage point from the only year when India posted double-digit GDP growth post-liberalisation and from each of th...

The Congress went to town this morning, with hashtags, memes and data to highlight the ill effects of demonetisation. Former PM Manmohan Singh wrote a strongly worded letter, linking the ongoing NBFC and overall liquidity crisis to demonetisation while se...

Winning allies is MK Stalin’s big test, one in which he is up against Hindutva as an ideology and not just a traditional rival.

Unless the human resources of country's entire population are fully developed and their fully developed capabilities are harnessed for the development of the nation, the nation and its economy cannot achieve optimal progress.

While we had a robust growth rate between 1990 and 2016, we also managed to turn ourselves into one of the sickest nations on the planet, which, in turn, now threatens to put people back into poverty.

The Nehru-Gandhi family could remain on top for the last 71 years because it could win elections for the party. If it can’t win elections, then why is it needed?

In a highly literate state like Kerala, the laity do not blindly follow Church fiats on whom to vote and as such the CPM may be in danger of alienating Christian electorate if corrective steps are not taken immediately.

Just as terrorism was earlier branded into urban and rural phenomena, Naxalism too has been segregated into urban and rural regions.

It is pertinent to note here that the police had initially held HUJI responsible for the Court Blast in 2007. But after the Batla House encounter in September 2008, the police held IM responsible for the blast.

According to some political observers, the Trinamool government is well prepared with a pre-emptive plan. The primary focus of the TMC is to keep the minority vote-bank intact and then top it up with Bengali sub-nationalism.

Before I met him, I had scant regard for all leftist intellectuals whom I considered more cerebral than humane. But my first meeting quelled all my apprehensions.

As the 95-year-old frail Karunanidhi fought yet another battle on the hospital bed, crowds thronged outside and across the state to temples and shrines, praying that their atheist leader will live. Women and men wept openly outside Kauvery Hospital where...

It’s an irony that not a single reporter from so-called mainstream newspapers or television channels came to cover the conference called by tribals. But on the same day at the same time, as many as 17 cameras from different television channels were attend...

Viewers were left wondering why the Opposition had given NaMo a chance to grandstand in Parliament before the general election.