Perhaps the realisation that sterile politics had wasted his talents was a factor in the incident. If so, there is need to end the misuse of students by political parties in Government-funded institutions As we take stock of our annual journey, the dominant mood this Republic Day is of shock … Read More
Congress party president Sonia Gandhi, vice president Rahul Gandhi and others implicated in the alleged appropriation of properties of Associated Journals Pvt. Ltd. have complicated their problems with the decision to re-launch the National Herald (English), Navjivan (Hindi) and Qaumi Awaz (Urdu) newspapers. Thursday’s decision of the extraordinary general body … Read More
Significant sections of Delhi let out a collective sigh of relief as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s odd-even numbered car scheme ended amid conflicting views on whether the project caused a gigantic inconvenience to the public and exposed the inadequacy of the public transport system or yielded some good and brought … Read More
The pre-dawn strike inside the Pathankot Air Force Base on January 2 was a Tragedy of Errors. Never before has such specific, actionable intelligence been available in real time, and the concerned operatives deserve our heartiest appreciation. Yet, information for which men may have risked their lives did not give … Read More
The failure of the Crisis Management Group (CMG) headed by Cabinet secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha, to spring into action after terrorists attacked the Pathankot Air Base in the wee hours of January 2, and to make its presence known and felt in the succeeding four days that it took the … Read More
The Bharatiya Janata Party must utilise the opening provided by the deterioration in Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s health, which caused him to be rushed to the capital’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences before he could install daughter Mehbooba Mufti as successor, to rework the unequal … Read More
It would be an incorrect analysis to see Modi’s surprise visit to Pakistan entirely from the prism of ties between India and Pakistan. It was also prompted by international developments affecting India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s apparently impromptu visit to Lahore on Christmas day is readily explained by the need … Read More
Within 72 hours, soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns from an official visit to Russia, Union Finance Minister and Information & Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley will have to submit his resignation from the Union Cabinet. Jaitley’s position – already sticky after the Prime Minister was perceived as hinting that … Read More
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi’s attempt to portray a court summons in a case of dubious takeover of the properties of a public limited company has failed the first test of sycophancy. The cloying media acolytes and intellectuals who spared no effort to promote the Amethi … Read More
The Paris climate change conference overcame a decade of international failure to conclude with a pledge from all 195 nations present that each would lower greenhouse gas emissions to help stave off global warming that is threatening the future of the planet. The agreement was a miracle after the collapse … Read More
