FRIDAY’s roof collapse at the busy Delhi airport serves as a reminder of the underlying problems plaguing India’s ambitious infrastructure push. The incident, which occurred during the heaviest rainfall recorded in Delhi on a June day in 88 years, caused...
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SPORT is a great leveller. It can be cruel, and magical. The agony of defeat and the joy of victory, the Indian cricket team has experienced it all. After the heartbreak in Ahmedabad comes the redemption in the Caribbean. As...
PRESIDENT Droupadi Murmu’s address to Parliament on Thursday coincided with the release of the Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Stability Report (FSR). The President mentioned that the government had carried out reforms over the past decade to save India’s banking...
JOE Biden is 81, his challenger Donald Trump 78. In the first debate between the US presidential candidates, the age gap seemed much larger. The most important job for President Biden was to put to rest concerns about his biggest...
THE drubbing in the Punjab Assembly elections in 2022 was a massive personal setback for the top leaders of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). Both stalwart Parkash Singh Badal and his son, party president Sukhbir Singh Badal, faced the ignominy...
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IN 30 government schools of Himachal Pradesh, not a single student could clear the Class X examination conducted by the state board of school education this year. In 116 schools, the pass percentage was less than 25 per cent. The...
CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi has taken charge as the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha. This is the first constitutional position for Rahul, who has been in politics for the past two decades or so. No less important...
TAKE a bow, Afghanistan. The tough-as-nails cricket team led by Rashid Khan has scripted history by making it to the T20 World Cup semifinals for the first time. In the process, the Afghans knocked out 2023 ODI World Cup champions...
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s release from prison marks the culmination of a long-running saga of international intrigue. An Internet publisher with disdain for government secrets, he gained massive attention for the 2010 release of classified documents relating to the US...
THE BJP’s numbers in the Lok Sabha may have come down, but a buoyant Opposition’s expectations of any new rules of engagement have got an early reality check. The appointment of seven-time MP Bhartruhari Mahtab as the pro tem Speaker,...
A Ukrainian attack on Crimea with US-supplied missiles has triggered a sharp response from Russia. Calling the strike ‘absolutely barbaric’, Moscow has blamed it on the US and warned that retaliation would follow. The Russian foreign ministry has claimed that...
LATE in the day, but the Centre has finally cracked the whip. The National Testing Agency (NTA) chief has been shown the door, the Central Bureau of Investigation has been tasked with the probe into the alleged irregularities in the...
IN her second trip to India within a fortnight, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held wide-ranging talks with PM Narendra Modi, underlining the commitment of both nations to bolster their ties. This was the first bilateral state visit by a...
THE harrowing case of child labour that has come to light in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh is a wake-up call. As many as 58 minors, including 19 girls, were found working in appalling conditions at a liquor factory by...
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi ticked all the right boxes during his visit to the Kashmir valley — he not only chose the Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Centre on the banks of the Dal Lake to lead the nation’s International Yoga Day...
THE chilling murders of Saravjeet Kaur in Sirsa and Komal Rani in Kaithal show that Haryana is rightly synonymous with ‘honour’ killing. In the Saravjeet case, her family initially tried to fool everyone into believing that she had died of...
THE cancellation of the University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) examination a day after it was conducted comes as a huge embarrassment for the Centre and a big letdown for the over nine lakh candidates. The shock cancellation has been...
THE transfer of nearly 10,000 Punjab Police personnel is being projected by the state government as a demonstration of its resolve to take on the drug mafia. Breaking the nexus between drug peddlers and the police is a key element...
THE Hardeep Singh Nijjar case continues to define and undermine India-Canada relations, with the Canadian Parliament marking the first anniversary of his murder with a moment of silence in the House of Commons on Tuesday. The bilateral relationship has been...
PERIODIC revision of learning material is par for the course. How the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is going about it is problematic, ill-advised and smacks of narrow-mindedness. It’s not without reason that revisions in the Class...
THE Congress’ encouraging performance in the recent Lok Sabha elections has prompted former party president Rahul Gandhi to retain the Raebareli Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and vacate the one in Wayanad, Kerala. His sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who...
A year after India witnessed one of its worst rail disasters — a collision involving Coromandel Express and two other trains in Odisha’s Balasore district had claimed over 290 lives — nine persons were killed and over 40 were injured...
Four years since the first face-to-face military confrontation between India and China in over five decades, the shadow of the Galwan valley clash of June 15, 2020, looms large, hugely impacting the strategic calculus of the two countries. India lost...
The G7 summit in Italy has demonstrated that India continues to be a key player in this elite group’s scheme of things. The summit witnessed the participation of the seven member countries — the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan...
THE somewhat muted response to the announcement by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to permit admissions to higher educational institutions twice a year is on expected lines. The switch to a biannual admission process entails not only an infrastructure upgrade,...
A series of terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir has prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to tell officials to deploy the ‘full spectrum of counter-terror capabilities’. Terrorists have struck in Reasi, Kathua and Doda districts within a week, killing nine...
THE World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap index has ranked India 129th out of 146 nations on the list. The data reflects a troubling reality in stark contrast to the India growth story. The methodology of arriving at the conclusions...
THE death of 49 people, mostly Indians, in a fire that engulfed a building housing foreign workers in Mangaf, Kuwait, has turned the spotlight on the conditions under which these employees live and work not only in this Gulf nation...
IT’s a ‘best of both worlds’ situation for Chandrababu Naidu. The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo has not only become the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for the fourth time, he has also emerged as a key stakeholder in the...
THE controversy over allegations of paper leak and malpractices in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) needs quick resolution. The Supreme Court may have refused to stay the counselling for admissions to medical colleges, but confusion and anxiety persist. The Bench’s...
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