Things are slipping in the Northeast. The Centre needs to build a larger team and back it with political clout. However, the larger Pakistan issue is a little more complex.
The resolution on Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal could scar, blight and bedevil the entire nation for decades to come. So, how come nobody in Delhi figured what was going on?
Congress can legitimately claim it’s been too busy putting the government together, but it cannot carry on by giving an impression that the Left is being excluded, ignored or taken for granted.
The NDA’s big failure was wooing the broker & ignoring the farmer. At some point, in the euphoria of one year of growth, it stopped talking to, and even talking of, the poor.
This politicisation of the scholar is a good thing but it must not stop here. Now that he is prime minister, he should embrace the politics and ceremony that goes with it willingly.
The last thing we need is the return of that old, suspicious, paranoid third-worldist rhetoric when the western world is actually worrying about us taking away their skilled jobs.
From Michigan to Madrid and from Ankara to Auckland, voters are beginning to factor in foreign policy issues as they go out to decide who they should hand over power to.
Discourse on 2004 election has been about how the poor have spoken, created political space for poverty, & how the verdict is against policies inspired by World Bank, IMF and WTO.
In a move revolutionalising the small-savings market, the department of posts (DoP) has, in principle, decided to dematerialise postal savings instruments. The government mobilises,...
Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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