Opinion

Bihar, once the cradle of civilisation, home to India’s first republic and from where the history of this country was scripted, for 1000 years, faces existential crisis. If it is not saved today, tomorrow will be too late

The pictures of people running on Kabul Airport to flee the Taliban rule are still very much alive in the minds of the people. Isn’t allowing Afghanistan to continue as an international cricket-playing nation legitimising the Taliban rule in Afghanistan?

Amidst the fanfare, the Global Times assures us that the Belt and Road Initiative stands on the “right side of history,” a phrase so overused it’s practically begging for retirement

Tabu has been around in the film industry for more than three decades. More importantly, she is, quite easily, one of the most gifted performers of her generation

It was Archibald Wavell who almost accurately foresaw how the situation in India was going to shape up at the end of World War II. The only deficiency in his projection was the absence of one factor which no one at that time could have foreseen

The Indian government adopted a two-pronged approach to the current crisis. On one hand, it deplored Hamas’ terrorist actions while on the other, it backed the two-nation solution supporting the Palestine cause

Online games are becoming attention-soaking dumps and need to be heavily regulated to prevent a mental health crisis in India. Let us begin by taxing them on the amount of attention that they are sucking

Joya Chatterji in her book ‘Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century’ persists with equating India and Pakistan and the alleged similarity of the goals of Nehru and Jinnah, although one was the principal cause of the unprecedented bloodshed of p...

By failing to take a clear stance on issues of national interest while actively seeking to undermine it, this ‘NGO-ised’ avatar of the Congress is sending the message to the Amrit Kaal generation that it does not share their dream for a Viksit Bharat by 2...

By ‘sparing’ people the horror of seeing what Hamas did to defenceless civilians, is the validity of the Israeli reaction being undermined? Or is Israel robbing Hamas of its ‘glory’ by depriving it of its images of terror?

Team India won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 and 2011. The overall record, however, is a mix of good moments that we love to remember and disappointments that we want to forget but cannot

While successive Congress regimes only paid lip service to the cause of OBCs, it is the Modi government which brought to fruition various reforms to ensure that the benefits of inclusivity and development are made accessible to one and all

The West should learn from recent history as terrorists nurtured in Western countries have turned against these countries inflicting heavy damage

Sita Soren, the daughter-in-law of JMM supremo Shibu Soren, has inadvertently opened a can of worms for her father-in-law in a 30-year-old cash-for-vote scam

Trudeau’s concern is about the killing of a person against whom a Red Corner Notice had been issued by Interpol. Why was the Red Corner Notice ignored and Nijjar not arrested and extradited to India?

In the first session, the Prime Minister gave a call to make a new beginning with a less disruptive, more cooperative, and far more productive Parliament. This was followed by the introduction of the historic Women's Reservation Bill